Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

This week, in the enterprise security news, AI dominates new funding rounds (I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.) The buyer's market continues, with lots of small acquisitions SingTel sells off Trustwave at a significant loss Yubico goes public (actually, a month ago, sorry we missed it) Yubico can also now ship pre-registered security keys New cybersecurity tools for board and exec-level folks...

Skynet, India, North Korea, China, passwords, KeePass, Cisco, AI, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-335

One of the biggest challenges in security today is organizations' reluctance to share attack information. Perhaps legal teams are worried about liability, or maybe execs are just embarrassed about security failures. Whatever the reason, this trend makes it difficult for organizations to help each other. CrowdSec's mission is to make this process automated, anonymized, and seamless for security tea...

Today we interview Shane Sims, CEO of Kivu Consulting. We'll be talking about the current state of cybercrime and insights from incidents his consulting firm has recently worked. We'll discuss some of the latest stats and trends related to ransomware, as well as thoughts on future cybercrime trends. Shane will also share some stories from his time as an FBI agent, working undercover as a cybercrim...

In the Security News: Fried squid is tasty, but the squid proxy is vulnerable, Flipper zero and other tools can now BLE Spam more than just Apple devices, Cisco IOS vulnerability in the web interface, again, is Signal vulnerable?, WinRAR being exploit, still, Math. Random is not really all that random, get your malware samples, and my inside look into Android TV devices, malware, and the horrors o...

Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations. ˇHe is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster. Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities. Chris is also the author of the Ba...

How HTTP/2's rapid reset is abused for DDoS, a look at the fix for Curl's recent high severity bug, OWASP moves to make CycloneDX a standard, Microsoft deprecates NTLM, VBScript, and old TLS -- while also introducing an AI bug bounty program. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-259

Cisco, Juniper, AVOSLocker, NoEscape, Valve, FreedomGPT, More News and Aaran Leyland. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-334

It's no surprise that OT security has fared poorly over the last 30+ years. To many appsec folks, these systems have uncommon programming languages, unfamiliar hardware, and brittle networking stacks. They also tend to have different threat scenarios. Many of these systems are designed, successfully, to maintain availability. But when a port scan can freeze or crash a device, that availability see...

In the leadership and communications section, Is Your Board Cyber-Ready?, Chief security officers' salary growth slowing, The Secret to Making Difficult Decisions, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-324

Do we sound like a broken record? Leadership, communication, and risk management skills are key traits of the Chief Information Security Officer. But don't just take our word for it, Jason Loomis, CISO at Freshworks, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss why companies should be hiring CISOs for their leadership talent, not their technical talent. Segment Resources: Switch Five Dysfunctions of...

As long as there are profits to be made, cybercriminals will continue to monetize enterprise assets—whether they be devices, applications, data, or users. It only takes one weak or unknown asset to compromise an entire organization. Brian will discuss why enterprises need to move away from assumption-based approaches to asset data and decision making to evidence-based asset intelligence to secure...

This week Dr. Doug talks: Microsoft, SeroxenRAT, Smart Links, Vogons, ToddyCAT, ShellBot, Hidden servers, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-333

There's a lot of talk about AI, especially with the rise of apps like ChatGPT. Despite there being a huge amount of hype, there are legitimately practical applications for leveraging AI concepts in meaningful ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your cybersecurity program. We'll discuss a few examples and show you some ways to bring AI out of the hype and into a proper tool to empow...

The world of AI is exploding, as excitement about generative AI creates a gold rush. We've already seen a huge number of new GenAI-based startups, products, and features flooding the market and we'll see a lot more emerge over the next few years. Generative AI will transform how we do business and how we interact with businesses, so right now is an excellent time to consider how to adopt AI safely...

In the Security News: Windows 11 tries to fix legacy authentication, Rapid resets and the world's largest DDoS attack, we finally get to see the cURL vulnerability, and its pretty ugly, turns out Android TV boxes with pre-installed malware are a hot topic, patch your Netscaler, root for everyone with emergency responder software, learn THIS hacking Tools First, long live Wayland, how to actually h...

Resources we mentioned: * The Hardware Hackers Handbook is a great start * Do a badge challenge: https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/an-introduction-to-hardware-hacking   * Take some classes * Do some Arduino stuff: https://www.arduino.cc/   * Take free courses on electrical engineering: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-01sc-introduction-to-electrical-engineering-and-computer-scie...

Anticipating Curl's upcoming patch for a high severity flaw, the Looney Tunables flaw in Glibc, ShellTorch flaw hits PyTorch and lots of AI, lessons from some X.Org security patches, eBPF security, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-258

This week Aaran Leyland rants: about Google, 23andMe, Facebook, GitHub's Secret Scanning, MGM Resorts, Grindr, More News, and is joined by the notorious Jason Wood on the Security Weekly News! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-332

What if all these recommendations to shift left were more about shifting focus? It's all too easy to become preoccupied with vulns, whether figuring out how to find them earlier in the SDLC or spending time fixing them within specific number of days. Successful DevSecOps approaches can be so much more than just vulns and so much more than just tools. Sure, tools are useful for identifying known vu...

In the leadership and communications section, The Data Your Board Actually Wants to Hear About When Valuing Cybersecurity Investments, Cybersecurity is a CFO issue, Must-know insights when navigating the CISO career path, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-323

CEOs and boards struggle with their digital transformation process. Does their operations hinder or align with business initiatives? Has their security operations scaled to meet the data and digital demands to protect against business risk? In today's episode, we're talking to Chris Morales, CISO at Netenrich, who'll provide compelling insights towards security transformation. Security organizatio...

Each employee serves as a potential gateway to their organization, and the personal information of your workforce is readily accessible and exposed on the internet, making the organization susceptible to threats. DeleteMe is the solution that locates and eliminates personal data from the open web, safeguarding your organization. This segment is sponsored by DeleteMe. Visit https://www.securityweek...

This week Dr. Doug talks: Feet, Google, Apple, Predator vs. Lemurs, r77, Qualcomm, qakbot, deepfakes, More News and with the exotic Aaran Leyland! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-331

On this week's news segment, we go down a bit of a rabbit hole on data lakes and have a GREAT conversation about where security data wrangling might or might not go in the future. We also discuss Nord Security's funding and $3B valuation, try to figure out what Synqly is doing, and discuss IronNet's demise. We also find out which email solution is more secure (at least, according to insurance clai...