Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

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 vulnerability scanner has a vulnerability, violating CISA directives at scale, make 2FA a little easier with this device, NSA's BlackLotus mitigation guide: who needs those certificates anyhow? All that and more on this episode of Pau...

In this segment we welcome Carlos Perez back to the show! Carlos will discuss methods we can use to hide one systems and cover our tracks. We'll cover how on a system (as administrator) the blue team's struggle using default logs or even on a default install of Sysmon to detect an attacker. Attackers can selectively disable modern event log providers, take action and then re-enable. We will demo t...

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 spies, go ahead and just replace your hardware, secure boot is hard, bypassing the BIOS password...

Emilie comes on the show to talk about penetration testing and share her knowledge and stories!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-788  

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...

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 desktops, one packet exploits, neat linux malware, sock puppets, a must read new book about hacks, why SMB why?, boot girls, exposing customers....data, cracking GSM, you MUST use 2...

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   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-787  

In the Security News: a cross-platform, post-exploit, red teaming framework, cover your backups, your voice should never be your passport, time to change your fingerprints, a drop in the bucket sucka, Thor will take out those pesky drones, never give your AI friends money, bye-bye PyPi for a while anyhow, bug bounties are broken, you say you want people to update routers, not-too-safe-boot, myster...

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!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for a...

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 Misleading & AI Images, Cyberstalkers Use New Windows Feature to Spy on iPhones, Texas A&M Prof Flunks all...

Kevin Johnson joins us to discuss pen testing, automated testing, why AI testing is not pen testing!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw785  

In the security news: feel free to cry a bit, honeytokens are the shiny new hotness, it's fixed in the future, backdooring electron, should we move to passkeys, the turbo button, why Cisco hates SMBs, old vulnerabilities are new again, MSI, Boot Guard and some FUD, fake tickets, AI hacking, prompt injection, and the SBOM Bombshell!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest epi...

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...

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, HTTPS lock status, no pornhub for you!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw783  

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.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw783  

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...

In the Security News: SSDs use AI/ML to prevent ransomware (And more buzzword bingo), zombie servers that just won't die, spectral chickens, side-channel attacks, malware-free cyberattacks!, your secret key should be a secret, hacking smart TVs with IR, getting papercuts, people still have AIX, ghosttokens, build back better SBOMs, Salsa for your software, Intel let Google hack things, and they fo...

In the security news: Blizzards, Sleet, Typhoons, Sandstorms and Tsunamis, masking your car stealing tech in a Nokia phone, kill -64, Google doesn't want to fix an RCE, hijacking packages, monitoring macs, beating Roulette, lame advice from Microsoft, are post-authentication vulnerabilities even vulnerabilities?, Ghosts, burpgpt, and do you trust Google? All that and more on this episode of Paul's...

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 Hi...

In the security news, FBI seizes one of the biggest stolen credential markets, Is catching ransomware the baseline for detection and response? Potential outcomes of the US National Cybersecurity Strategy, Thieves are using headlights to steal cars, China wants to censor generative AI, Tesla sued for snooping on owners through built-in cameras, All that and more, on this episode of Paul's Security...

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. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes...

In the Security News: Rorschach, QNAP and sudo, why bother signing things, why bother having a password, why bother updating firmware, smart screenshotting, TP-Link oh my, music with Grub2, byte arrays and UTF-8, what is my wifi password, Debian and systemd, opening garage doors, downgrade your firmware to be more secure, exploit databases, this is like a movie, unsolved CTFs, and Near-Ultrasound...

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   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw779

In the Security News: Turning traffic lights green with the flipperzero (and a bunch of other hardware), suspending AV and EDR, Test signing mode, Linux control freaks, hacking the Apple Studio Disaply, Intel;s attack surface reduction claim, the truth about TikTok that everyone is missing, just stop developing AI, but only for 6 months, anyone can connect to Amazon's wireless network, revoking th...