Risky Business #640 -- Huh. The CIA really was out to neck Assange

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>The amazing Yahoo! News story on the former CIA director’s awesome brainwaves</li> <li>Hostage diplomacy pays off for Huawei CFO</li> <li>NSA releases great guidance on VPN security</li> <li>Microsoft has actually hired a cybersecurity executive</li> <li>Much, much more</li> </ul> <p>This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. Material’s co-founder Ryan Noon will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about smarter ways to do email retention and destruction. They have a product that interfaces with your mail provider’s API – whether you’re on Google Workspace or O365 – to do things like archive and redact email, and they’re finding their customers are using these features to actually implement retention email strategies.</p> <p>Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/riskybusiness">Patrick</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/metlstorm">Adam</a> on Twitter if that’s your thing.</p> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Show notes</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <dl> <dt><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html">Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA&#39;s secret war plans against WikiLeaks</a></dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/09/26/the-yahoo-story-about-all-the-things-cia-wasnt-allowed-to-do-against-wikileaks/">The Yahoo Story about All the Things CIA Wasn&#39;t Allowed to Do Against WikiLeaks