Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

This week in the Security News we talk: Its still not illegal to look at HTML source code, Nobelium strikes again, npm infections, gas is cheap in Iran, if you can get it, Google Tensor, going beyond the transport layer with HTTPS, buying a power plan, EBCDIC and GDPR, how children can infect parents, signing your rootkit, dates are hard, something smells funny and bird poop in your antenna, & mor...

You may have seen the term "Incident Commander" in discussions about incident response, but do you know where that term came from and what it means? How can professionalizing your incident response using proven disaster management methodology up your game? Matt Linton is an experienced Emergency Responder and USA Region lead of Google's Security Response team. For the past decade he's been working...

A good backup is not prevention. Its recovery. Roger A. Grimes, author of the just released Ransomware Protection Playbook (Wiley), and author of 12 other books and over 1100 articles on computer security is going to discuss how sophisticated ransomware is today, how it usually breaks in, what it does, and what every person and organization should be doing to stop it. Hint, it doesn't involve fire...

This week in the Security News: More security advice for non-profits, faster 0-day exploits, ban all the things, you are still phishable, how to treat security researchers, what the heck is cyber hygiene?, Gummy browsers, the Internet is safe now, a particular kind of crack is open-source, sysmon: Now for Linux, Windows 11 and lies, and cocaine Hippos!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw fo...

We've been working on this Python project that will use the Nmap Python library to scan the local network, enumerate select systems and devices, try to login with default or known credentials, and send a Slack message if it finds anything. The initial release is here: https://github.com/SecurityWeekly/netslackbot   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: h...

The business of Security is gaining in maturity, from being an obscure corner of IT to becoming a core part of the C-Suite. How is this transformation happening and what can we learn from the similar trend that occurred in IT for the last decade?   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw715

This week in the Security News: Following the ransomware money, the Mystery Snail, school cybersecurity is the law, sue anyone, just not security researchers, "hacking" a flight school, refusing bug bounties in favor of disclosure, Apple still treats researchers like dog poo, prosecuting people for reading HTML, giving up on security and a high school hacking prank that never wants to give you up...

Sven will talk about GraphQL APIs. He is going to show common issues that arise from its usage and how to attack GraphQL applications.   This segment is sponsored by Invicti. Visit https://securityweekly.com/invicti to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw714

The world's top tech organizations are pursuing an open-source endpoint security strategy using osquery. We will dig into how osquery and Fleet can enable observation, collection, and investigation on endpoints. This open-source strategy eases deployment, reduces cost, improves trust, and provides flexibility to meaningfully improve security on the endpoint. Segment Resources: https://osquery.io h...

This week in the Security Weekly News: Brushing that data breach under the rug? Get sued by the US Government!, all your text messages belong to someone else, beware of the Python in your ESXi, Twitch leaks, when LANtennas attack, zero-trust fixes everything, recalled insulin pumps, Apache 0-day, you iPhone is always turned on, Apple pay hacked, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw f...

There are many options to choose from when setting up The Security Onion. The use cases are vast, including a NIDS (Zeek, Suricata), HIDS (Beats, Wazuh, osquery) and standalone instances for a SOC workstation and static analysis. I really like SO as a platform to collect all kinds of data from the network and from your systems (some even use the word XDR).   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/ps...

Today Dan DeCloss, CEO of PlexTrac, joins the panel to share results from a CyberRisk Alliance survey of 315 security practitioners in the U.S. and Canada. This research, sponsored by PlexTrac, shows a correlation between purple teaming and program maturity, which emphasizes the importance of adversary emulation in today's security landscape. Tune in to get the scoop on the survey results and MUCH...

In the Security News, Microsoft adds automated mitigations for Exchange servers, Senior US cyber officials support mandatory breach reporting, 2021 has broken the record for 0days, but maybe that's a good thing? Speaking of which, Apple patches some 0days, Lithuania warns against using Huawei and Xiaomi phones, the FCC pays companies to ditch Huawei and ZTE gear, the latest on Cybercrime, UK resea...

To defend themselves, companies need to detect ransomware attacks early, gather the intelligence to understand the attack, and prevent the attacks from occurring in the future. Qualys' Mehul Revankar will discuss ransomware trends, defensive maneuvers and discuss the inspiration and research behind Qualys' new ransomware exposure dashboard that provides companies with personalized plan to remediat...

This week in the Security News: What to do with your old hardware, renting your phone, "persistently execute system software in the context of Windows", sensational headline: ransomware could cause a food shortage, could someone please schedule the year of the Linux desktop?, public-key crypto explained?, malware attacks Windows through Linux, Microsoft Exchange AutoDiscover bug leaks 100k creds,...

In this segment Paul and Larry attempt to confirm or deny that Nzyme performs intelligent device fingerprinting and behavioral analytics to detect rogue actors. Classic signature-based detection methods are just too easy to circumvent in WiFi environments.   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw711 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes!

Velociraptor is a multi-platform, open-source, endpoint forensics, monitoring, and response platform that allows security professionals to quickly and easily dig through host artifacts and perform detection and response at scale. It's fast, precise, powerful … and free. It also supports Linux, Windows and MacOS. Velociraptor is a unique tool since it offers a query language so that users may query...

This week in the Security News: Anonymous hacks Epik (with a K), Fuzzing Close-Source Javascript Engines, ForcedEntry, 8 Websites that can replace computer software, REvil decryptor key released, Microsoft fixes Critical vulnerability in Linux App, Drone accidentally delivers drug paraphernalia to high schoolers, & more!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw710 Visit https://www.securitywee...

Brakeman is a free static analysis security tool specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at any stage of development. Justin first released Brakeman in 2010. In 2018, the commercial version, "Brakeman Pro", was acquired by Synopsys. Brakeman continues to be a very popular security tool for Rails, with tens of thousands of dow...

Network breaches, ransomware attacks, and remote-work challenges highlight the need for cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) deployments.   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw710 This segment is sponsored by Barracuda Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! 

Benjamin will discuss securing iframes with the sandbox attribute. This segment is sponsored by Acunetix.   Visit https://securityweekly.com/acunetix to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw709

This week in the Security News: Hacking Honda, a fact about single-factor, disarming your home and alarming vulnerability disclosure response, btw, you have a Sudo vulnerability, NSO under investigation, Loki and 0days, Linux turns 30, SANS appoints a new president of the college, how much does your USB thumb drive weigh?, and When "Florida Woman" attacks!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/ps...

Paul presents a Technical Segment that walks through Nmap, Vulners scripts, & Flan Scan!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw709

This week in the Security News: Some describe T-Mobile security as not good, if kids steal bitcoin just sue the parents, newsflash: unpatched vulnerabilities are exploited, insiders planting malware, LEDs can spy on you, hacking infusion pumps, PRISM variants, 1Password vulnerabilities, plugging in a mouse gives you admin, & yard sales!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest...

Apple's new M1 systems offer a myriad of benefits for both macOS users, and unfortunately, to malware authors as well. In this talk Patrick details the first malicious programs compiled to natively target Apple Silicon (M1/arm64), focusing on methods of analysis.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw708