Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

DevOps has gained momentum over the years as its methods have been used by teams worldwide to accelerate application delivery. But where we continue to struggle is in integrating security into this workflow. In this discussion, Sumedh Thakar, president and chief product officer at Qualys, will talk with the Security Weekly Team about the importance of building security into the CI/CD pipeline to e...

Every time you deploy a patch nothing has ever gone wrong, right? Most of us have been burned by deploying a patch, causing downtime in your environment, getting in trouble with users and management for causing an outage and having to back out a patch, then re-deploy. The team at Vicarious has a way to apply in-memory virtual patches that mitigate exploitation and do not require binaries to be alt...

The NSA Makes Its Powerful Cybersecurity Tool Open Source, The bizarre reason Amazon drivers are hanging phones in trees near Whole Foods, Elon Musk Confirms Serious Russian Bitcoin Ransomware Attack On Tesla, Foiled By The FBI, Attackers are exploiting two zero-day flaws in Cisco enterprise-grade routers, and the FBI is investigating after an alarmed pilot tells the LAX tower: We just passed a gu...

Successful attacks on healthcare entities are steadily increasing. Sophisticated criminals and nation states are focusing more attention on healthcare than ever before. The main goals are to steal money, data and intellectual property, execute ransomware, and attack critical infrastructure. Why do the hackers continue to succeed and what are some effective strategies and tactics to combat this sco...

Loveable Security: Flee's approach to cybersecurity is that is should be "loveable." He thinks cybersecurity perpetuates a myth of an elite, isolated team of stealth insiders who are seen as enforcers, instead of as enablers who accelerate innovation by removing obstacles. Data Privacy + CCPA: Flee believes that tech companies should operate as data custodians, instead of data owners, and that CCP...

The growth in software vulnerability exploitation creates a need for better prediction capabilities. Over time, there have been shifts in the ways of discovering vulnerabilities in binary code. Research and development of new tools enables security pros to adopt innovative techniques to scale the process.   This segment is sponsored by Vicarius. Visit https://securityweekly.com/vicarius to learn m...

Most analysts will tell you that they balance between being thorough and getting the job done quickly. Paul Battista asked the security community to weigh in on this debate. He'll share what they thought and explain why it's no longer necessary to choose between the two. This segment is sponsored by Polarity. Visit https://www.polarity.io/sw to learn more about them! Take the Polarity Challenge! G...

Google Researcher Reported 3 Flaws in Apache Web Server Software, Medical Data Leaked on GitHub Due to Developer Errors, Experts hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issues, Tesla Is Cracking Down On Performance-Enhancing Hacks For The Model 3, Former Uber CSO Charged Over Alleged Breach Cover-Up, and Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs!   V...

What use cases are addressed by Threat Hunting Platforms and SIEMs? Where is the overlap and where are the differences? Corey Thuen, Founder of Gravwell, covers the high level and low-level tech that drives these differences. This segment is sponsored by Gravwell. Visit https://securityweekly.com/gravwell to learn more about them! Gravwell is a threat hunting platform built for ingest and search o...

New Microsoft Defender ATP Capability Blocks Malicious Behaviors, Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs, IBM finds vulnerability in IoT chips present in billions of devices, The Sounds a Key Make Can Produce 3D-Printed Replica, US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps, and Disrupting a power grid with cheap equipment hidden in a coffee cup!   Visit https://www....

Customers are concerned about protecting critical services such as Active Directory from compromise. It's game over if AD is compromised. AD environments can be heterogeneous; public cloud, on-prem data centers, clients, servers. It is operationally complex to protect this environment while ensuring smooth business operations How do you deal with changes in the environment? New apps? App updates?...

It s not uncommon to find the traditional vulnerability assessment report buried under the CISO family picture, compliance books, and his latest blood pressure test. These reports highlight the never-ending battle between security and IT about what s more important: risks to servers and endpoints, or keeping the environment up-to-date and secured. There are even problems within the ranks of each u...

This week, Amazon Alexa One-Click Attack Can Divulge Personal Data, Adobe tackles critical code execution vulnerabilities in Acrobat, Reader, Threat actors managed to control 23% of Tor Exit nodes, SANS Security Training Firm Hit with Data Breach, Unskilled hackers can breach about 3 out of 4 companies, TeamViewer flaw can allow hackers to steal System password, and more!   Visit https://www.secur...

Elastic believes that transparency and collaboration must be the new norm for the greater infosec community to succeed in stopping threats at scale. With many individuals now working from home, new endpoints need to be secured and IT teams are rushing years of planning into a few months to onboard distributed employees and resources – all while managing a global shift that is bringing new adversar...

In this segment, we discuss the importance of automating the Vulnerability Management Program and discuss Qualys VMDR which takes vulnerability management to the next level bringing detection and response to vulnerability management. For your free trial of Qualys VMDR, visit: https://securityweekly.com/qualys Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https:/...

How hackers could spy on satellite internet traffic with just $300 of home TV equipment, Smart locks opened with nothing more than a MAC address, 17-Year-Old 'Mastermind' and 2 Others Behind the Biggest Twitter Hack Arrested, Flaw in popular NodeJS express-fileupload module allows DoS attacks and code injection, and how Netgear Won't Patch 45 Router Models Vulnerable to a Serious Flaw!   Visit htt...

Chad talks about the DomainTools COVID research (and how they stumbled on the CovidLock Android ransomware), mapping the Reopen Campaigns in more detail. He will then touch on some of the work he is doing that will be released that maps Twitter hunting into a nice, observable dashboard for the lazy.   This segment is sponsored by DomainTools. Visit https://securityweekly.com/domaintools to learn m...

A Vulnerability that Allowed Brute-Forcing Passwords of Private Zoom Meetings, Russia's GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets, a New tool that detects shadow admin accounts in AWS and Azure environments, BootHole Secure Boot Threat Found In Mostly Every Linux Distro, and Windows 8 And 10, and how Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories!   Show Notes: https://wiki.securi...

MIDAS uses unsupervised learning to detect anomalies in a streaming manner in real-time and has become a new baseline. It was designed keeping in mind the way recent sophisticated attacks occur. MIDAS can be used to detect intrusions, Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, financial fraud and fake ratings. MIDAS combines a chi-squared goodness-of-fit test with the C...

The Gravwell Data Fusion platform is releasing a major update this week. New features make analyzing logs and network data much easier for new users while still keeping the raw power of a unix-like search query pipeline for power users. Gravwell is free for community use and during launch week if you sign up for CE we're bumping the data cap up to 4 GB/day.   This segment is sponsored by Gravwell....

Vulnerable Cellular Routers Targeted in Latest Attacks on Israel Water Facilities, Fugitive Wirecard Executive Jan Marsalek Was Involved In Attempt to Purchase Hacking Team Spyware, 8 Cybersecurity Themes to Expect at Black Hat USA 2020, Twitter says hackers viewed 36 accounts' private messages, and how Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.c...

Leveraging the unifying power of a cloud-based security platform to provide full context and comprehensive visibility into the entire attack chain for a complete, accurate risk-based analysis and response. The cloud allows you to unify different context vectors like asset discovery, rich normalized software inventory, end of life visibility, vulnerabilities and exploits, misconfigurations, in-dept...

Zane Lackey joins us once again to talk about Zero Trust, Cloud Security, and the impact of COVID-19 on Digital Transformation! This segment is sponsored by Signal Sciences.   Visit https://securityweekly.com/signalsciences to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/psw659

Microsoft fixes critical wormable RCE SigRed in Windows DNS servers, Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day, Docker attackers devise clever technique to avoid detection,a massive DDoS Attack Launched Against Cloudflare in Late June, Critical Vulnerabilities Can Be Exploited to Hack Cisco Small Business Routers, and what you need to know about the Twitter Mega Hack!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.c...

The guys welcome our newest host to the family. John Snyder will replace Matt Alderman on Security and Compliance Weekly. Tune in to hear about how John made the jump from being a trial lawyer in New York to founding AGNES Intelligence, a forensic AI firm that has perfected the application of unsupervised machine learning!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Sho...