Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

PlayStation, KerioControl, SEC SimSWAP, 8base, Copilot, AI, Robert Bird, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-450

Code scanning is one of the oldest appsec practices. In many cases, simple grep patterns and some fancy regular expressions are enough to find many of the obvious software mistakes. Scott Norberg shares his experience with encountering code scanners that didn't find the .NET vuln classes he needed to find and why that led him to creating a scanner from scratch. We talk about some challenges in tes...

Spoiler: it's probably in your pocket or sitting on the table in front of you, right now! Modern smartphones are conveniently well-suited for identity verification. They have microphones, cameras, depth sensors, and fingerprint readers in some cases. With face scanning quickly becoming the de facto technology used for identity verification, it was a no-brainer for Nametag to build a solution aroun...

AI Cheese, CISA, Scaryware, Kimsuky Returns, Backups, Encryption, Jason Wood, 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-449

Deepseek troubles, AI models explained, AMD CPU microcode signature validation, what happens when you leave an AWS S3 bucket laying around, 3D printing tips, and the malware that never was on Ethernet to USB adapters. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-860

From online banking to mobile payments, nearly every aspect of our financial lives relies on digital systems. This reliance has brought incredible convenience, but it also means that any disruption — whether due to cyberattacks, system failures, or operational incidents— can have severe consequences.    The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) provides the framework to ensure that financial e...

Today, we've got: DeepSeek, Nicolas Cage, OpenAI, Hackers, Ransomware, Canada, Joshua 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-448

Threat modeling has been in the appsec toolbox for decades. But it hasn't always been used and it hasn't always been useful. Sandy Carielli shares what she's learned from talking to orgs about what's been successful, and what's failed, when they've approached this practice. Akira Brand joins to talk about her direct experience with building threat models with developers. Speculative data flow atta...

Celebrating and Elevating Women in Cyber: Recently, International Women in Cyber Day (September 1) highlighted the ongoing challenges women face in the cybersecurity field, as well as the progress made in recent years. Women bring exceptional skills and knowledge to cybersecurity; however, it is estimated that they make up only 20% to 25% of the cybersecurity workforce—a percentage that has remain...

.ASS, Deepseek, AI Time Travel, Google, HeartBlocker, TikTok, 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-447

This week, we talked to our friends at Bitwarden about password vaults, storing more than just passwords, free software to manage those SSH keys, and vaults for developers. In the news, new/old Palo Alto vulnerabilities explained, taking down the power grid with a FlipperZero, more vulnerable bootloaders, putting garbage in your .ASS file, the US Government wants to look at routers, magic backdoor...

The last five weeks have seen a flurry of news on Artificial Intelligence, especially this last week. It started on December 17, 2024 when the Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a report on “[g]uiding principles, forward-looking recommendations, and policy proposals to ensure America continues to lead the world in responsible AI innovation.” Then a new administrat...

DeepSeek, AIDs, Sex Crime, Microsoft, PayPal, GitHub, Joshua 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-446

A lot of AI security boils down to the boring, but important, software security topics that appsec teams have been dealing with for decades. Niv Braun explains the distinctions between AI-related and AI-specific security as we avoid the FUD and hype of genAI to figure out where appsec teams can invest their time. He notes that data scientists have been working with ML and sensitive data sets for a...

HackerOne's co-founder, Michiel Prins walks us through the latest new offensive security service: AI red teaming. At the same time enterprises are globally trying to figure out how to QA and red team generative AI models like LLMs, early adopters are challenged to scale these tests. Crowdsourced bug bounty platforms are a natural place to turn for assistance with scaling this work, though, as we'l...

Cursive Funk, Microsoft, Ivanti, Sonic Wall, Exchange, PowerSchool, 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-445

Andy Jaquith joins us to discuss how to prioritize vulnerabilities and remmediation in the real-world, including asset management and more! In the security news: ESP32s in the wild and security, Google oAuth flaw, DDoS targets, Ban on auto components, Bambu firmware updates, Silk Road founder is free, one last cybersecurity executive order, US Treasury hack update, Mitre launches a new program to...

Becoming a CISO is a lofty goal for many security and risk pros, and the role brings new sets of challenges. CISOs who accept the wrong opportunities will be forced to conform, rather than excel, and take on outsized liability for the scope of responsibilities. Jeff Pollard, Vice-President, Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team, and Jess Burn, Principal Analyst, both from Forrester Resea...

Smishing, Microsoft, Star Blizzard, Sneaky Log, VMARE, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-444

What’s in store for appsec in 2025? Sure, there'll be some XSS and SQL injection, but what about trends that might influence how appsec teams plan? Cody Scott shares five cybersecurity and privacy predictions and we take a deep dive into three of them. We talk about finding value to appsec from AI, why IoT and OT need both programmatic and technical changes, and what the implications of the next X...

Today's data landscape is undergoing a seismic shift with increasing regulatory pressures, rapid acceleration to the cloud, and AI adoption. Join BigID's CEO and Co-Founder, Dimitri Sirota, to learn how organizations can adopt a holistic approach to their data security and compliance strategy to keep up with the revolution in data, transforming their data into a competitive advantage. This segment...

AIs in Love, UEFI, Fortinet, Godaddy, Juggalos, Aaran Leyland, and More. In this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-443

Rob from ThreatLocker comes on the show to talk about how we can disrupt attacker techniques, including Zero Trust, privilege escalation, LOLbins, and evil virtualization. In the news we talk about security appliances and vulnerabilities, rsync vulnerabilities, Shmoocon, hacking devices, and more! This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn mor...

In the leadership and communications segment, New Year, New Cyber Threats: How Boards Are Stepping Up (or Not), Why CISOs should build stronger bonds with the legal function in 2025, New Managers: You Don’t Need to Know It All, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-378

Smishing, Beyond Trust, CryptoReligion, Aviatrix, Azure, Little Red Books, AI Abuse, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-442