Paul's Security Weekly (Audio)

We are joined by Josh and Kurt from the amazing Open Source Security Podcast! We're talking about supply chain risks, threats and vulnerabilities in this segment! Segment Resources: https://opensourcesecurity.io/   This week in the Security News: When you just wanna hurl, malicious containers, FCC bans stuff, these are not the CVE's you're looking for, Linux password mining, mind the gap, hacking...

In the Security News: Stealing Mastodon passwords, reporting vulnerabilities in open-source privately, labeling does not solve problems, or does it? will it every get patched? geolocating people from photos, no meta-data required, update your firmware on Linux, hacking flow computers, when a driver isn't really a driver, well, its a driver, but not the one you may be thinking of, oops I leaked it...

Every penetration test should have specific goals. Coverage of the MITRE ATT&CK framework or the OWASP Top Ten is great, but what other value can a pentest provide by shifting your mindset further left or with a more strategic approach? How often do you focus on the overall ROI of your penetration testing program? This talk will explore what it means to "shift left" with your penetration testing b...

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   In the Security News: last year's open source is tomorrow's vulnerabilities, RepoJacking, I feel like there will always be authe...

This week in the Security News: A Security Maturity Model for Hardware Development, Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity auth bypass flaw in PAN-OS, New UEFI rootkit Black Lotus offered for sale at $5,000, What are SBOMS, & Critical Remote Code Execution issue impacts popular post-exploitation toolkit Cobalt Strike   Chris Crowley, SOC-Class Course Author, SANS Senior Instructor, and Consultan...

This week in the Security News: rethinking vulnerability severity, exploiting the hacker tools, Microsoft "fixes" the vulnerable driver problem, its what you do with the data that matters, what is comprehensive security, deconflictions, moles are always a problem, checking the certs, oh and there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL, well at least one that we know of, currently!   In this segment, we are...

As Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry, Ismael Valenzuela leads threat research, intelligence, and defensive innovation. Ismael has participated as a security professional in numerous projects around the world for over the past two decades. In this episode, Ismael discusses his journey to become a top cybersecurity expert. We also explore the cybersecurity trends he and...

Red Balloon Security CEO Ang Cui has spent over a decade looking into the most critical devices supporting our infrastructure. He explains why the insight that launched his company still holds true, and what it will take for security experts, manufacturers and end users to resolve our insecure stasis.   Segment Resources: https://redballoonsecurity.com/ https://ofrak.com/ https://github.com/redbal...

Hackers rarely break through crypto or exploit fancy zero days. Most of the time they simply login using stolen credentials. Managing passwords, keys and other forms of secrets does not work at scale. In this segment we'll look into a more radical approach to infrastructure security: getting rid of secrets entirely and moving to access control based on physical properties of humans and machines. T...

Sinan Eren, the VP of Zero Trust at Barracuda joins us to discuss various aspects of MFA Fatigue & Authentication with the PSW crew! Segment Resources: https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/NetSec_Report_The_State_of_IIoT_final.pdf This segment is sponsored by Barracuda Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them! In the Security News: Bloodhound's blind sp...

Analyst burnout and the talent shortage are creating environments where teams are stressed out, overwhelmed, and frustrated. Security Operations managers (or anyone managing teams of security analysts) must empower their analysts with solutions that can make them more effective at their job. Thomas Kinsella joins to discuss why No-code automation is the ultimate solution to do that! Then, in the S...

John Hammond joins us today as we start off the show talking about Cybersecurity education! Training and education is a constant conversation within the cybersecurity community, but it doesn't have to be a hard problem to solve. We will discuss how to bring both valuable and actionable information into the industry and how that makes an impact, even in unexpected ways -- for better or for worse. T...

There's a lot of worry about "fakes" especially in a world rapidly adopting AI/ML, so it's time for solutions. "Solid" is the W3C open standard, extending HTTPS, to upgrade the Web with security paradigms that solve for data integrity. Distributed systems naturally break through digital moats, free control through proper ownership, thus helping expand and achieve the best of the Internet. Segment...

This week: Greg Conti joins us to discuss InfoSec Lessons from Military Strategy, Tactics, and Operational Art. Online conflict is widespread and at times the internet hurts more than it helps. In this segment, we'll discuss ways to inform today's enterprise defense by better understanding strategy, tactics and operational art from government influence operations, electronic warfare, and cyberspac...

We start off the show this week by welcoming the infamous Eclypsium security researchers Mickey and Jesse to talk about Secure Boot vulnerabilities. They walk us through the history of Secure Boot, how it works, previous research they've performed ("Boothole"), and some details on their current research presented at Defcon this year in a talk titled "One bootloader to rule them all". Then, in the...

Guy will go through some of his career choices that eventually led to 25 years in a long and fun career in information and cybersecurity. Infosec has been a fascinating and challenging field which anyone can learn through training and some of the excellent YouTube videos. Segment Resources: http://handlers.sans.org/gbruneau/ https://isc.sans.edu/handler_list.html#guy-bruneau   In the Security News...

We've heard about the recent abuses for Apple's AirTags used in tracking and stalking issues in recent months. While tools exist for detection under the Apple ecosystem, limited options exist for Android and none under Linux. We'll explore the AirTag beacons and showcase some tools for detecting beacons and creating our own for testing under Linux. We'll also show some ways to take our methods eve...

This week in our first segment, we are thrilled to welcome Lesley (@hacks4pancakes) back to the show! In this segment, we'll dig into some ICS security topics including some recent threats, monitoring ICS networks for security, incident response for ICS, and more! Then, in the Security News for this week: heat waves and outages, GPS trackers are vulnerable, cracks in the Linux firewall, bas passwo...

This week, in our first segment we are joined by Andy Robbins, the Product Architect of BloodHound Enterprise at SpecterOps! Andy will explain the origin story of BloodHound, as well as where the project is today and where it's going in the future! Then, in the Security News for this week: Raspberry Pi Pico W Adds Wireless, Apple expands commitment to protect users from mercenary spyware, UK healt...

This week, we start off the show by interviewing veteran cybersecurity journalist and author Joseph Menn. Now at the Washington Post, Joseph talks about his books and the best reporting on hacking and defense today! Then, in the Security News for this week: ICS training bill, 5 myths, VoIP devices and ransomware, miracle exploits, UnRAR and Zimbra, guess what the most common weakness is, security...

This week, we kick off the show with an interview featuring Sam Bowne, the Founder of Infosec Decoded, Inc. Sam joins to discuss why many people think security is too difficult to learn because it is such a big field, and constantly growing. In the Security News for this week: appliances with holes, gamification and its pitfalls, false rocket sirens, PHP strikes again, new laws we may actually agr...

This week, we start off the show by interviewing Ray Davidson, the Program Lead at Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps! The program is relatively mature, and will be presented (along with those of Ohio and Wisconsin) at the upcoming National Governors Association Cybersecurity Summit! Then, we wrap up the show with this week's Security News: Big DDOS, tracking smartphones, play Doom in your BIOS, hertzb...

Starting off the show this week, we are joined by Matt McGuirk, Solution Architect at Source Defense, to discuss web application client-side security. Finally in this week's Security News: Analyzing chat logs with Python, consumer reports for IoT, hypothetically BS, the year of the Linux desktop and the year of Linux malware are the same, do you trust Google to tell you open-source software is sec...

Kicking off the show, John Pescatore joins for an interview & will go through his mostly random career choices that led to a long and fun career in information/cybersecurity - and how that ties into today's demand to secure the increase complex supply web of chains. Finally, this week in the Security News: Chaining Zoom bugs is possible to hack users in a chat by sending them a message, Microsoft...

This week, we kick off the show with an interview featuring Robert Lee, where we discuss The Year in Cyber Review 2021! In the second segment, we interview Saumil Shah, where we talk about Firmware Security! Then, in the Security News: Singapore launches safety rating system for e-commerce sites, Watch Out for Zyxel Firewalls RCE Vulnerability, New Bluetooth hack that can unlock your Tesla, Hacker...