BrakeSec Education Podcast

Back in late 2017, we did a show about expensify and how the organization was using a service called 'Amazon Mechanical Turk' (MTurk) to process receipts and to help train their Machine Learning Algorithms. You can download that show and listen to it here:   2017-040 #infosec people on Twitter and elsewhere were worried about #privacy issues, as examples of receipts on MTurk included things like b...

John Nye ( @EndisNye_com ) is the VP of Cybersecurity Strategy at healthcare consultancy #CynergisTek. He's in the process of writing a whitepaper about the issues that are still plaguing healthcare. While every industry in the world has to deal with #security issues, the stakes are highest, and most personal, in healthcare. Because healthcare data is highly sensitive, a breach can cause major pro...

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2018-001-A_new_year-new_changes-same_old_malware.mp3 The first show of our 2018 season brings us something new (some awesome new additions to our repertoire), and something old (ransomware). Michael Gough is joining us to discuss a new a partnership with BrakeSec Podcast (you'll have to listen to find out, or wait a few weeks :D ) We discuss...

As is tradition (or becoming around here) we like to get a bunch of podcasters together and just talk about our year. No prognostications, a bit of silliness, and we still manage to get in some great infosec content. Please enjoy! And please seek out these podcasts and have a listen! Slight warning: some rough language People and podcasts in attendance: Tracy Maleef (@infosecSherpa) Purple Squad S...

Ms. Berlin and Mr. Boettcher are on holiday this week, and I (Bryan) went to Hushcon ( www.hushcon.com ) last week (8-9 Dec 2017). Lots of excellent discussion and talks. While there, our friend Jay Beale (@jaybeale) came on to discuss Hushcon, as well as some recent news.  Google released an 0day for Apple iOS, and we talk about how jailbreaking repos seem to be shuttering, because there have not...

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs was developed with the idea that the most basic needs should be satisfied to allow for continued successful development of the person and the community inevitably created by people seeking the same goals. DFIR is also much the same way in that there are certain necessary basics needed to ensure that you can detect, respond, and reduce possible damage inflicted by an att...

With Mr. Boettcher out this week due to family illness, Ms. Berlin and I discussed a little bit of what is going on in the world. Expensify unveiled a new 'feature' where random people would help train their AI to better analyze receipts. Problem is that the random people could see medical receipts, hotel bills, and other PII. We discuss how they allowed this and the press surrounding it. We also...

This week is a bit of a short show, as Ms. Berlin and Mr. Boettcher are out this week for the holiday.   I wanted to talk about something that I've started doing at work... Creating training... custom training that can help your org get around the old style training.   Also, we got some community audio from one of our listeners! "JB" went to a SANS event in Berlin, Germany a few weeks ago, and tal...

Direct Link: https://brakesec.com/2017-038   Michael De Libero spends his work hours running an application security team at a gaming development company. I (Bryan) was really impressed at the last NCC Group Quarterly meetup when he gave a talk (not recorded) about how to properly build out your Application Security Team. So I asked him on, and we went over the highlights of his talk. Some of the...

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-037-asset_management.mp3 We started off the show talking to Mr. Boettcher about what DDE is and how malware is using this super legacy Windows component (found in Windows 2) to propogate malware in MS Office docs and spreadsheets. We also talk about how to protect your Windows users from this. We then get into discussing why it's so impo...

Direct Link:   http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-036-Adam_Shostack-threat_modeling.mp3 Adam Shostack has been a fixture of threat modeling for nearly 2 decades. He wrote the 'threat modeling' bible that many people consult when they need to do threat modeling properly. We discuss the different threat modeling types (STRIDE, DREAD, Trike, PASTA) and which ones Adam enjoys using. Mr. B...

After last year's SOURCE Conference, I knew I needed to go again, not just because it was a local (Seattle) infosec conference, but because of the caliber of speakers and the range of topics that were going to be covered. I got audio from two of the speakers at the SOURCE conference (@sourceconf) on Twitter Lee Fisher and Paul English from PreOS Security about UEFI security and methods to secure y...

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-035-business_continuity-After_the_disaster.mp3   We are back this week after a bit of time off, and we getting right back into it... What happens after you enact your business continuity plan? Many times, it can cause you to have to change processes, procedures... you may not even be doing business in the same country or datacenter, and...

Direct Link:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-SPECIAL003-Derbycon_audio.mp3 Mr. Boettcher, Ms. Berlin, and I went to Derbycon. In addition to the podcast with podcasters we did during the 3 days, I managed to grab another whole hour of audio from various people at the conference, just to give you an idea of the vibe of the conference, in case you were unable to attend.   We talked...

*Apologies for the continuity this was recorded before we went to Derbycon 2017.*   Preston Pierce is a recruiter. We wanted to have him on to discuss some issues with our industry. So we had him on to discuss hiring practices, how a recruiter can help a company recruiter better talent, and how to stop companies looking for the 'unicorn' candidate. Preston is a great guy and we learned a lot about...

Direct Link:   http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-SPECIAL002-Derbycon-Podcast_with_podcasters.mp3   SUPER NOT SAFE for kids (and probably adults, come to think of it). Really this is just us riffing about derbycon (and I really love @oncee, and wished I'd gone to his stable talk (which you can listen/watch here:  http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon7/s07-the-skills-gap-h...

Zane Lackey (@zanelackey on Twitter) loves discussing how to make the DevOps, and the DevSecOps (or is it 'SecDevOps'... 'DevOpsSec'?) So we talk to him about the best places to get the most bang for your buck getting security into your new DevOps environment. What is the best way to do that? Have a listen... Direct Link:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-033-Zane_Lackey_inserting_s...

Everyone should be doing incident response tabletops, even if it's not a dedicated task in your organization. It allows you to find out what you might be lacking in terms of processes, manpower, requirements, etc. This week, we discuss what you need to do to get ready for one, and how those should go in terms of helping your organization understand how to handle the aftermath. And in case you've b...

This week, we met up with Robert Sell to discuss competing in the DefCon Social Engineering CTF. You're gonna learn how he prepared for the competition, and learn about some of the tactics you could use to compete in future SE CTF events. Direct Link:   http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-031-Robert_Sell-Defcon-SE-CTF.mp3     RSS:  http://www.brakeingsecurity.com/rss Youtube Channel:  ...

This week, we discuss the lack of information and where you might find more information about certain vulnerabilities. Seems like many companies fail to give out necessary and actionable information without paying an arm and a leg. We also go over our DerbyCon CTF walkthrough, and discuss the steps to solve it.   Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-030-vulnerability_OSINT-...

This week was one heck of a show. If you are a blueteamer and make use of the "Windows Logging Cheat Sheet", you are no doubt aware of how important it is to log certain events, and to set hostile conditions to make malware/Trojans/virus have a harder time avoiding detection. What if I told you the same updates we suggested last week to NEVER delay actually undoes all your hardening on your system...

 This week went in a different direction from what we normally do. We discussed some news, a twitter conversation about someone from the 'ahem' "media" that suggests that you disable Windows Update on your home devices. We discuss the pros and mostly cons of doing that, and alternatives to protect your home and work devices from that. We talked about the Comcast Xfinity applicances and how they ha...

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-026-Ally_miller_machine-learning-AI.mp3 Ally Miller (@selenakyle) joined us this week to discuss Machine Learning and #Artificial #Intelligence. It seems like every new security product employs one or both of these terms. She did the keynote at Bsides Las Vegas on topics of #Machine #Learning and #Behavioral #Economics. We asked Ms. Mill...

Direct Link:http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-025-How-GDPR-affects-US-Biz-with-Wendyck-Derbycon2017-CTF-info.mp3   GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is weighing on the minds and pocketbooks of a lot of European companies, but is the US as worried? If you read many of the news articles out there, it ranges from 'meh' to 'OMG, the sky, it is falling". GDPR will cause a lot of n...

Direct Link:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-024-mental_health_podcast-with-Rand0h-and-tottenkoph.mp3 The infosec industry and the infosec culture is so diverse, with many different points of view, many different thoughts and opinions, and many of us deal with our own internal demons, like addictions, mental afflictions like depression or bipolar disorders. And 'imposter syndrome'...