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Brian Snow spent his first 20 years at NSA doing and directing research that developed cryptographic components and secure systems. Many cryptographic systems serving the U.S. government and military use his algorithms; they provide capabilities not previously available and span a range from nuclear command and control to tactical radios for the battlefield. He created and managed NSA's Secure Sys...

In the Security News: SSH under attack, IoT routers have vulnerabilities, the BLE Spam attacks still work against iPhones, there is a longer story behind BLE spam, and Larry is one of the stars, denial of pleasure via BLE, vulnerability disclosure and your blob is showing, the half-day watcher, tapping into cameras, 50 shades of vulnerabilities, Nuclear decay as a random number generator, cachewar...

Attackers pursue the shortest path to achieve their goals in your app. With a tri-layered security architecture, you can force hackers to crawl through a triathlon in your app. What's in the three layers, to detect attacks sooner, slow attackers down, and stop them fast? Let's take a journey across the three layers and discuss how to gain control of user permissions, secure your cloud computing, a...

Do people still use mainframes? IoT and firmware security, Apple Find my, Bluetooth is the gift that keeps on giving, to hackers that is, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-806

Austin spends the majority of his time thinking about ways to abuse LLMs, the impact of the attacks, and the effects on society. He brings a truly unique perspective to the way to use, attack, and verify output from AI LLM models. Whether you are just learning the ins and outs of LLMs or you were an early adopter, this segment is for you! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-806

In the Security News: If an exploit falls in the forest do I still need to patch?, Reflections on trusting trust: the source code revealed, prompt injection in your resume, iPhones be updating, a deep dive into vulnerable kernel drivers and wiping SPI flash, cheap to exploit software, to ransom or steal?, oh OAuth, Florida man, door bell shenanigans, don't pay the ransom, the White House and AI, a...

AI/ML is providing significant benefits in a wide range of application domains but also provides adversaries with a new attack surface. Learn about DARPA's efforts to help evaluate AI/ML and work towards a trust model that will allow us to use these valuable tools safely. Segment Resources: Identifying and Mitigating the Security Risks of Generative AI paper (co-authored by Kathleen): https://arxi...

Sonar Vulnerability Researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste conducted research on the security of Visual Studio Code — the most popular code editor out there — which was presented at DEF CON 31 in August. The pair uncovered a few ways for attackers to gain code execution on a victim's computer if they clicked on a specially crafted link or opened a malicious folder in Visual Studio Code, by...

We officially welcome Bill Swearingen to our expert panel of PSW hosts, and discuss the news including hacking shenanigans, QNAP, recovering crypto currency, Android malware, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-804

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...

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...

In the Security News: No Flipper Zero for you!, your glibc is hanging out and other Looney Tunables, and it vulnerable, for no reasons, other than the obvious ones, a Russian firm will pay $20m for Android or iPhone 0days, you do what you do and other Exim vulnerability stories, yet another way to become root on Linux, if you ever wanted to read the source code for Sub7, well, now you can, more pe...

Anuj joins us to discuss recent trends in malware. What are the malware authors up to lately? What are the latest techniques for reverse engineering malware? Learn about the latest tools and techniques from Anuj! Anuj is a Principal Threat Researcher at Blackberry, where he performs malware research and reverse engineering. He has more than 15 years of experience in malware analysis and incident r...

Just what are the right skills to have or acquire to work in cybersecurity today? Kayla and the Security Weekly crew talk about it in this segment. We also touch on why we get burnt out and how to avoid it, all in anticipation for SOC Analyst Appreciation Day! This segment is sponsored by Devo . Visit https://securityweekly.com/devo to learn more about them! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/...

This week, First up its the Security News: libwebp or die: we unravel some of the details behind the webp vulnerability first fixed by Apple and Google, then, hopefully by everyone else, attackers can steal your pixels using your GPU, someone cough China cough has been hacking Cisco routers, Kia boys are still a problem, How the Cult of the Dead Cow plans to save the internet, how iOS updates coul...

In the Security News: LVFS is not a backdoor, attackers are in physical proximity, when you need to re-cast risk, oh Fortinet, pre-installed backdoors again, deep down the rabbit hole, the buffer overflow is in your BIOS!, what is 345gs5662d34?, a cone is all you need, we are compliant because we said so but we lied, 10 years of updates, Microsoft looks at ncurses and finds bad things, they also l...

Nathan comes on the show to discuss LLMs, such as ChatGPT, the issues we face today and in the future. Learn about prompt injection attacks, jailbreaking, LLMs for threat actors, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-799

Lots in the Security News this week. Stay tuned! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-798  

Ryan has his finger on the pulse of ransomware and response. We discuss how the initial infections are occurring, how they've changed over time, and where they are going in the future! Segment Resources: For folks to see my recent presentations: for528.com/playlist For folks to see the recordings of our recent Ransomware Summit: for528.com/summit23 For folks to watch my recent (free) ransomware wo...

Check out this interview from the PSW Vault, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on February 4, 2013. Dr. Spafford is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has an on-going record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a n...

In the Security News: How not to send all your browser data to Google, apparently Microsoft needs pressure to apply certain fixes, the mutli-hundred-billion-dollar-a-year industry that tries to secure everything above the firmware, security through obscrurity doesn't work, should you hire cybersecurity consultants, pen testing is key for compliance, defense contractor leaks, inside a McFlurry mach...

Amanda joins us to discuss aspects of incident response, including how to get the right data to support findings related to an incident, SMB challenges, cloud event logging, and more! Amanda works for Blumira and is the co-author of "Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure."   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-797  

In the Security News: Lora projects are popular, simple checksums are not enough, WinRAR: shareware or native OS?, ATM software is vulnerable, attackers could learn from security researchers (but lets hope they don't), NoFilter and behavior by design, Apple vs. A security researcher: there are no winners, sneaky npm packages, faster Nmap scans, kali on more phones, more LOl drivers, comparing secu...