Paul's Security Weekly (Audio)

Penetration Tester stories, dumb and funny stuff that's crazier than movies. Segment Resources: https://www.cyberpointllc.com/index.php https://www.cyberpointllc.com/srt.php In the security news: keystroke logs are stored in plain-text (and other atrocities in software used in schools), WPBT is the gift that keeps on giving and this time it's Gigabyte, PCI DSS 4.0 (drink!), immutable linux desktop...

Liam Mayron from Fastly comes on the show to talk about his unique path into information security, the security implications of generative AI, advances in technologies to protect web applications, detecting bots, and enabling better MSP services! This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly  to learn more about them!   In the Security News: a cross-platform, post-ex...

Kevin Johnson joins us to discuss pen testing, automated testing, why AI testing is not pen testing!   In the security news: How AI Knows Things No One Told It, Dragos Employee Gets Hacked, VMProtect Source Code Leaks, CISA Vulnerabilities, SHA-1 is a Shambles, Microsoft Scans Inside Password Protected Files, Geacon Brings Cobalt Strike Compatability to MacOS, Google Launches Tools to Identify Mis...

In this talk, Paula Januszkiewicz, renowned cybersecurity expert with years of experience in the field, shares her insights on critical tasks that must be included in any successful penetration testing checklist. She will offer the listeners a sneak peek into her pentesting trick book, discuss the special tools she is using, and highlight the importance of diversifying your pentester's toolkit. Th...

Rob "Mubix" Fuller comes on the show to talk about penetration testing, what's changed over the years? He'll also discuss "Jurassic Malware" and creating games in your BIOS.   This week in the Security News: 5-year old vulnerabilities, hijacking packages, EV charging apps that could steal stuff, do we even need software packages, selling hacking tools and ethics, I hate it when vendors fix stuff,...

STM32 boards, soldering, decapping chips, RTOS development, lasers, multiple flippers and for what you ask? So I can be alerted about a device I already know is there. The Flipper Zero attracted the attention of news outlets and hackers alike as people have used it to gain access to restricted resources. Is the Flipper Zero that powerful that it needs to be banned? This is a journey of recursion a...

We will talk about Supply chain security, the TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities recently discovered by a Quarkslab researcher, bugs in reference implementations, vulnerability disclosure and perhaps various other topics. Segment Resources: Vulnerabilities in the TPM2.0 reference implementation  https://blog.quarkslab.com/vulnerabilities-in-the-tpm-20-reference-implementation-code.html Vulnerabilities in Hig...

Imagine an illness that requires surgery a few times a month and restricts your mobility. What would that do to your career? In our chat with Billy Boatright today, we'll find out how he not only switched careers despite his illness, he found an advantage in his weaknesses: he turned them into effective social engineering skills.   In the security news, FBI seizes one of the biggest stolen credent...

The approach of cybersecurity workforce development and how someone with such technical background come to designing a degree program with non-traditional approach. What it takes to keep it going? Segment Resources: https://go.boisestate.edu/ucore https://go.boisestate.edu/gcore   In the Security News: Rorschach, QNAP and sudo, why bother signing things, why bother having a password, why bother up...

How to get into reversing embedded firmware? Can the planet really be hacked? We'll go over a couple of fun exploitation examples, see what mistakes were made and maybe what could have been done better to make these devices tougher to break into.   Segment Resources: Voip phone hacking: Blog: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/avaya-deskphone-decade-old-vulnerability-found-in-pho...

We sit down with Nico Waisman to discuss vulnerability research and other security-related topics!   In the Security News: Windows MSI tomfoolery, curl turns 8...point owe, who doesn't need a 7" laptop, glitching the ESP, your image really isn't redacted or cropped, brute forcing pins, SSRF and Lightsail, reversing D-Link firmware for the win, ICMP RCE OMG (but not really), update your Pixel and S...

Software supply chain attacks, those in which hackers target the "water supply" of software are on the rise. This makes software developers everywhere valid targets. We will discuss the developer perspective on software supply chain attacks. Segment Resources: https://in-toto.io https://sigstore.dev   In the security news: AI on your PI, no flipper for you, stealing Tesla's by accident, firmware a...

Tune in to ask our PSW hosts anything you want to know! Join the live discussion in our Discord server to ask a question. Visit securityweekly.com/discord for an invite! Larry Pesce, Jeff Man, Tyler Robinson, and more will be answering your questions, including: What is your advice on avoiding burnout? If each of the hosts had to be a distribution of Linux, which one would each of them be? Which h...

Barracuda published its 2023 Email Security Trends report that shows how email-based security attacks affect organizations around the world. 75% of the organizations surveyed for the report had fallen victim to at least one successful email attack in the last 12 months, with those affected facing average costs of more than $1 million for their most expensive attack. 23% said that the cost of email...

It's another holiday week, so enjoy this interview from the PSW archives!   We chat with Marcus J. Ranum of Tenable, pit ODROID against Raspberry Pi, and introduce you to USBee in our security news. All that and more, so stay tuned!

Zero Trust is the buzzword of the 2020's. Vendors are selling it, the US Federal Government is requiring it, and organizations are implementing it, but what does it really mean (I mean really beyond the hype)? In this segment, Paul and Ron will talk ways combat threats through people, process, and technology Zero Trust Risk Management. Segment Resources: Forrester Research Zero Trust blogs: https:...

Linux systems are a collection of free and Open Source software-- some packaged by your distro, some built from source. How do you verify that your upstream isn't polluted by bad actors? Segment Resources: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch   https://securityonionsolutions.com/software/ https://deer-run.com/users/hal/   https://archive.org/details/HalLinuxForensics   In the Security News: VM...

Linux systems are a collection of free and Open Source software-- some packaged by your distro, some built from source. How do you verify that your upstream isn't polluted by bad actors?  Segment Resources: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch  https://securityonionsolutions.com/software/  https://deer-run.com/users/hal/  https://archive.org/details/HalLinuxForensics  In the Security News: VMw...

In a recent survey on purple teaming, 89 percent of respondents who had used the method deemed purple teaming activities "very important" to their security operations. Purple teaming exercises conducted regularly have the power to improve collaboration across teams, ensure issues are identified and remediated more proactively, and provide a means to measure progress over time. With all these benef...

This week in the Security News: GetVariable strikes again, attackers could blow up your computer remotely, escaping containers, null-dereferences and faulty evaluations, 31 new CPU vulnerabilities for AMD, a look into Chrome, santa, not-so-secure secure booting, and malware included!   Open source is the bedrock of most of the world's software today, so how to raise the floor on software quality a...

We're aren't recording this holiday week, so enjoy this PSW throwback episode! Main host Paul Asadoorian selected this episode to share as it's still relevant to the hacker community today. PSW366 was recorded June of 2016 with Gary McGraw. 

Over the last few years, the trend to use Open Source has been migrating into safety-critical applications, such as automotive and medical, which introduces system-level analysis considerations. In a similar fashion, these components are now being considered for the evolution of critical infrastructure systems. In the US, security concerns have prompted some emerging best practices, such as increa...

In the Security News: The Roblox prison yard, password manager problems, PyTorch gets torched with a supply chain attack, Oppenheimer cleared, Puckungfu, spice up your persistence with PHP, turning Google home into a wiretap device, Nintendo 3DS remote code execution, Linux kernel remove code execution, steaking cards in 2022 - The API way, and there is no software supply chain... and more!   This...

While we most likely do not believe that penetration testing is dead it continues to evolve over time. What do penetration tests look like today? Have they become more or less specialized? What is the continuing value of penetration testing? With development and IT moving so fast, how have penetration tests adapted? This discussion will dive into the details of penetration testing today and provid...

Is there still a network or has it slipped away from us entirely? What about efforts for localization because people do not trust the cloud, its providers or its reliability (ala Twitter vs. the Fediverse?). Do you still need actual hardware firewalls? What about VPNs? How long will these devices still be around as everyone goes to the cloud and SDWAN technologies? And what about identity? If you...