Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

The Afterlife, AWS, ClickFix, Agentic AI Galore, Robot Lumberjacks, Robocalls, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-522 This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit  https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

Ransomware attacks typically don't care about memory safety and dependency scanning, they often target old, unpatched vulns and too often they succeed. Rob Allen shares some of the biggest cases he's seen, what they have in common, and what appsec teams could do better to help them. Too much software still requires custom configuration to make it more secure. And too few software makers are embrac...

Segment 1: David Brauchler on AI attacks and stopping them David Brauchler says AI red teaming has proven that eliminating prompt injection is a lost cause. And many developers inadvertently introduce serious threat vectors into their applications – risks they must later eliminate before they become ingrained across application stacks. NCC Group’s AI security team has surveyed dozens of AI applica...

Erotic Chats, UEFI, F5, Cisco, Doug Sings, Insiders, Lastpass, Sora, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-521

First up is a technical segment on UEFI shells: determining if they contain dangerous functionality that allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot. Then in the security news: Your vulnerability scanner is your weakest link Scams that almost got me The state of EDR is not good You don't need to do that on a phone or Raspberry PI Hash cracking and exploits Revisiting LG WebOS Hardening Docker images Ha...

Still managing compliance in a spreadsheet? Don't have enough time or resources to verify your control or risk posture? And you wonder why you can't get the budget to move your compliance and risk programs forward. Maybe it's time for a different approach. Trevor Horwitz, Founder and CISO at TrustNet joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how the evolution of Agentic AI can automate compliance...

Bikers, Apple, Storm-657, Astaroth, EES, Salesforce, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-520

Interest and participation in the OWASP GenAI Security Project has exploded over the last two years. Steve Wilson explains why it was important for the project to grow beyond just a Top Ten list and address more audiences than just developers. He also talks about how the growth of AI Agents influences the areas that appsec teams need to focus on. Whether apps are created by genAI or directly use g...

Segment 1 - Interview with Dr. Anand Singh We're always thrilled to have authors join us to discuss their new book releases, and this week, it is Dr. Anand Singh. He seriously hustled to get his new book, Data Security in the Age of AI, out as soon as possible so that it could help folks dealing with securing AI rollouts right now! We'll discuss why he wrote it, how he got it done so quickly, and...

Ballistic Hot Dogs, Sonicwall, Clayrat, Twonet, Lockbit, Breachforums, Resumes, Discord, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-519

This week we kick things off with a special interview: Kieran Human from Threat Locker talks about EDR bypasses and other special projects. In the security news: Hacking TVs Flushable wipes are not the only problem People just want to spy on their pets, except the devices can be hacked Linux EDR is for the birds What does my hat say we love exploits and hashes ESP32s in your router RF signal gener...

Global spending on cybersecurity products and services will see a strong 14.4% CAGR from 2024 through 2029 and will hit $302.5 billion in 2029, driven by continued concerns around cyberattacks across all verticals and geographies. But where is the spending occuring and how do you prepare? Merritt Maxim, VP & Research Director at Forrester, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the Global Cyber...

Bad Crypto, Blood Thirsty Zombie CPUs, Y2K38, Park Mobile, Palo Alto, Redis, Red Hat, Deloitte, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-518

Software has forever had flaws and humans have forever been finding and fixing them. With LLMs generating code, appsec has also been trying to determine how well LLMs can find flaws. Nico Waisman talks about XBOW's LLM-based pentesting, how it climbed a bug bounty leaderboard, how it uses feedback loops for better pentests, and how they handle (and even welcome!) hallucinations. In the news, using...

At Oktane 2025, leaders from across the security ecosystem shared how identity has become the new front line in protecting today’s AI-driven enterprises. As SaaS adoption accelerates and AI agents proliferate, organizations face an explosion of human and non-human identities—and with it, growing risks like misconfigured access, orphaned accounts, and identity-based attacks. In this special Enterpr...

Ratboi, Clop, Oracle, svgs, Impact Solutions, The Pentagon, Open AI, Josh Marpet, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-517

In addition to some fun news, we get a Mary Ann Davidson as a surprise guest. We even get a great quote from her of "You're never going to have enough cybersecurity people to defend what was never built to be defensible.". Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-894

More than four out of ten (41%) Chief Information Officers (CIOs) report cybersecurity as their top concern, yet these same leaders are simultaneously increasing security budgets (77%), expanding cloud infrastructure (68%), and accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities (67%). According to the new Future Forward: CIO 2025 Outlook report released by Experis, a global leader in IT workfo...

Attica, Crustacean Porn, Broadcom, William of Ockham, Jaguar, SVG, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-516

Dealing with vulns tends to be a discussion about prioritization. After all, there a tons of CVEs and dependencies with known vulns. It's important to figure out how to present developers with useful vuln info that doesn't overwhelm them. Francesco Cipollone shares how to redirect that discussion to focus on remediation and how to incorporate LLMs into this process without losing your focus or los...

How identity security can keep pace with the evolving threat landscape, with Brett Winterford Today’s threat landscape has never been more complex. Malicious actors are leveraging tools like generative AI to develop more creative social engineering attacks that can have serious ramifications for businesses. Brett Winterford, VP of Okta Threat Intelligence, shares findings from his team’s most rece...

Riker's Curse, River City, EDR-Freeze, MCP, WordPress, GitHub, Josh Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-515

Broadcom, LastPass, Brickstone, SEO Poisoning, QR codes, H1B visas, Distributed Computing, and More... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-893

As AI and cloud-based services power our connected world, individuals are facing an unprecedented privacy crisis. With more than 2.3 billion people entrusting their data to the cloud and centralized servers, cyberattacks, data breaches, surveillance, identity theft, and privacy threats are now everyday risks. How do we protect against these threats? O Company founder and CEO, Guillaume Jaulerry, b...

Uhura, Collins, Nimbus Manticore, Sonic Wall, Async Rat, Solar Winds, ShadowV2, H1B, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-514