Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

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...

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-phone...

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 Samsung, hacking ATMs in 2023, breaking down Fortinet vulnerabilities, Jamming with an Arduino, it 315...

We sit down with Nico Waisman to discuss vulnerability research and other security-related topics!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw777

In the security news: AI on your PI, no flipper for you, stealing Tesla's by accident, firmware at scale, the future of the Linux desktop, protect your attributes, SOCKS5 for your Burp, TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities, the world's most vulnerable door device and hiding from "Real" hackers, sandwiches, robot lawyers, poisonis epipens, and profanity in your code! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul'...

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

In the Security News: Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer, Top 10 open source software risks, Dumb password rules, Grand Theft Auto, The false promise of ChatGPT, The "Hidden Button", How a single engineer brought down twitter, Microsoft's aim to reduce "Tedious" business tasks with new AI tools, The internet is about to get a lot safer, All that, and more!   Visit https://w...

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...

In the Security News for this week: indistinguishable classifiers, screenshot the /etc/passwd file, what the Zimbra, couple of cool Burp plugins, my voice is my passport. verify me, software is harder to exploit, unless its in firmware, when ChatGPT writes an article, becoming a trusted installer, not the last breach for lastpass, getting fried at the charger, and why hackers love stickers!   Visi...

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...

In the Security News: If it can run Linux, it should, TikTok thefts, significant vulnerability findings, and I'm not even joking, typo squatting is lame, what will it take Bruce!, stealing from the TPM, GoAnywhere, including root, what if attackers targeted your yacht?, two for the price of one (exploits), X is really old, and vulnerable, come for a ride on a CHERI-OT and be memory safe, codebreak...

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:...