Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

This week in the Security News: Printing Shellz, the exploit is in the link, 42 CVEs, time to update all of your browsers again, Microsoft App spoofing vulnerability, stealing credit cards in Wordpress, using block chain for C2, MangeEngine 0day, oh and did you hear about the log4j vulnerability?   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securitywe...

Since it is Dec 15 - might make sense to have a discussion on what might be coming in 2022 in terms of security - topics could span Ransomware, and other threats as well as technology segments like Zero Trust and SASE, etc.   Segment Resources: Barracuda research on Ransomware trends and remote code execution vulns: https://blog.barracuda.com/2021/08/12/threat-spotlight-ransomware-trends/ https://...

Let's talk about the 2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge. Lotsa great new stuff this year, with a focus on hardware hacking in a virtual world... plus TWO cons at the North Pole.   Segment Resources: www.holidayhackchallenge.com www.counterhack.com www.sans.edu   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw721

Sven will present common vulnerabilities and issues that arise when implementing authentication and authorization in web 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/psw720

What are the key security challenges that customers faced this year? What did attackers do differently in 2021, and why are they succeeding more often? What can we expect in 2022? Shailesh will discuss the latest defense strategies and how security teams can plan for the year ahead.   Segment Resources: https://www.qualys.com/cloud-platform/   This segment is sponsored by Qualys. Visit https://sec...

In the Security News for this week: Stop hiding your secrets in plain sight, Detecting Wildcard DNS Abuse, $5 setup that hacks biometrics, Managing passwords with pen and paper, Windows 10 Zero Days, & why The Matrix (might be) the best hacker movie!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw720

This week in the Security News: The FBI is spamming you, hacking exists in the mind, Beg Bounties, nasty top-level domains, MosesStaff, why own one npm package when you can own them all, how much is your 0day worth, upnp strikes again, when patches break exploits in weird ways, records exposed in stripchat leak, can we just block ICMP?, trojans in your IDA, suing Satoshi Nakamoto, paying to be in...

Derek and the hosts will discuss technologies to build CTFs as well as what types of things to consider while doing so. They will also talk about the computer fundamentals that are often undervalued when entering security.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw719

I needed to create some vulnerable targets for testing exploits and my default password finder I wrote in Python (featured in previous episodes). I found a few useful projects, including Vulhub, that made the task of building an insecure lab environment pretty easy. I've made several additions and improvements to the available code, which I will run through in this segment.   Visit https://www.sec...

This week in the Security News: NPM hijacked again, hardcoding your keys, PAN-ODay, more Nmap in your python or python in your nmap, put your Docker API to rest, Busybox will own your box, Microsoft says its a feature not a vulnerability, SBDCs, TIPC Linux kernel vulnerability, patches that don't fix everything, truckloads of GPUs and testing if your high!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/ps...

Over the course of 2020 and 2021 new UAV regulations and restrictions, such as Remote Identification, have threatened UAV hobbyist's ability to fly freely. These new regulations did leave hobbyists with one loophole: building a sub 250g quad. After this realization, I set out to build a sub250g quad which can be flown for fun, or as one of the first remotely accessible war-flying devices.   Segmen...

Can using technology risk your personal safety? Tracking information can be shared with attackers and facilitate cyberstalking in multiple ways including key logging and screen sharing. Exploration of recent court cases and investigations will be shared and attendees will learn what resources can help individuals experiencing digital abuse at the hands of a technical adversary.   Visit https://www...

This week in the Security News: LOLbins that make you LOL, over exposing your medical records, Shrootless gets past SIP, 73.6% of statistics are made up and other such lies, we love Signal, if an 0day drops on the Internet how many people have it?, fake Harvard students, uses for an Apple cleaning cloth, Bidi override characters, who owns my house?, who owns your printer?, and the return of Clippy...

Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. We've got a new container-based platform that is more flexible, more powerful, and more scalable than ever before. Join us to see how you can peel back the layers of your enterprise and make your adversaries cry!   Segment Resources: https://securityonion.net https://github.com/Securi...

We've updated our script with all sorts of new features. The latest version uses the TOML configuration file format to store the vendor information and the credentials to test with. We'll focus on how to implement that as it's handy for all sorts of projects. We'll also cover some of the other updates, including testing protocols on different ports and better reporting.   Visit https://www.securit...

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...