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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...

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...

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! In the security news: do people still use mainframes? IoT 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...

For the Security News, 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! Then in a pre-recorded segment: Sonar Vulnerability Researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste conducted research on the security of Visual Studio Code — the most popular code editor out t...

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 our first segment: the PSW hosts drop valuable insight on how to start your own journey into reverse engineering hardware! 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 ele...

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...

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...

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! 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...

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:  https://for528.com/summit23 For folks to watch my recent (free) rans...

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...

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." In the Security News: How not to send all your browser data to Google, apparently Microsoft...

Jared has a long, and outstanding, history in cybersecurity. Today, he works for Microsoft helping them run and respond to bug bounty reports. The scale is massive and I think we can all learn a thing or two about vulnerability management and bug bounties! Segment Resources: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty?rtc=1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/vul...

The 2020 Armenian war with Azerbaijan called into action over 100 volunteer incident responders from across the country (and the globe) into action. Our guest for this segment was one of the leads during the 40-day conflict and helped organize teams that responded to everything from websites being attacked and country-wide Internet outages. In the Security News: You should read the NIST CSF, JTAG...

Just how prepared are you for the next cybersecurity incident? Depending on the definition, security incidents likely happen daily at most enterprises. Because we can't prevent everything, the key to success is to be in a constant state of readiness. This means regular training with a focus on preparation. Gerard will walk us through tips and tricks to keep our incident response teams in tip-top c...

Our good friend Bill Swearingen joins us to talk about some of the incident response work he's been doing lately. Many people have it wrong, you don't need to be a cybersecurity ninja to respond to a security incident. Its about knowing who does what in your organization and executing a plan. Bill has put together a a set of free resources to help the community with incident response as well! Vist...

Once an incident has occurred and you've responded, then what? Join us for a chat with Sean Metcalf on what we can do to ensure our infrastructure remains resilient after a security incident. Segment description coming soon!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook...

This week, up first is the Security News: Microsoft lost its keys, LOL drivers, If you were the CSO, try to keep employees happy but remove their accounts when they leave, gaming device finds a missing child, $3 brute forcing, undocumented instructions are sometimes the best instructions, remote code on your Oscilloscope, fuzzing satellites, routers are great places to hide, typos lead to informat...

Getting the correct data in the right place for incident response is challenging. JP comes on the show to talk about how he is helping companies with these challenges, getting control of the security data pipeline while helping save costs! In the security news: Someone is going to get hurt, slow migrations, hiding on the Internet is hard, more Fortinet vulnerabilities, BLackLotus source code, the...

Welcome to another edition of a Paul's Security Weekly Vault episode! This episode was previously recorded on April 5, 2012 and features an interview with none other than Dan Geer. Unfortunately there is no video for this episode, but the content is still relevant today.  Dan Geer is a renowned cybersecurity expert and visionary. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field, Dan has made...

In this segment we welcome Carlos Perez back to the show! Carlos will discuss the different types of penetration testing, including adversary emulation, and a cool method we can use to cover our tracks on Windows systems. In the security news: You got so many CVEs you need your own, dedicated, vulnerability scanner, melting your neighbors with hacking, The FDA's SBOM and OSS, when the vulnerabilit...

Emilie comes on the show to talk about penetration testing and share her knowledge and stories! In the Security News: There is no national cyber director, time to move away from MoveIT, update Microsoft IIS at least every 6 years, your security system is not secure, for that matter neither is your smart pet feeder, identity management is hard, at least for some, spies using spy gadgets to spy on s...

Check out this interview from the PSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on April 9, 2013.   Bill Cheswick logged into his first computer in 1968. Seven years later, he was graduated from Lehigh University in 1975 with a degree resembling Computer Science. Ches has worked on (and against) operating system security for over 35 years. He is probabl...

Check out this interview from the PSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on October 18, 2015. L0pht Heavy Industries was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area. We learn about the history of the L0pht and the future.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Sh...