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In the Security News: The Roblox prison yard, password manager problems, PyTorch gets torched with a supply chain attack, Oppenheimer cleared, Puckungfu, spice up your persistence with PHP, turning Google home into a wiretap device, Nintendo 3DS remote code execution, Linux kernel remove code execution, steaking cards in 2022 - The API way, and there is no software supply chain... and more!   This session explores software supply chain security and the details of System of Trust, a community effort to develop and validate a process for integrating evidence of the organizational, technical, and transactional trustworthiness of supply chain elements for decision makers dealing with supply chain security. This framework is defining, aligning, and addressing the specific concerns and risks that stand in the way of organizations’ trusting suppliers, supplies, and service offerings. More importantly, the framework offers a comprehensive, consistent, and repeatable methodology – for evaluating suppliers, supplies, a

While we most likely do not believe that penetration testing is dead it continues to evolve over time. What do penetration tests look like today? Have they become more or less specialized? What is the continuing value of penetration testing? With development and IT moving so fast, how have penetration tests adapted? This discussion will dive into the details of penetration testing today and provide you with a guide to make the most of this activity.   Without question, we need more people working in cybersecurity today. Our culture has come a long way to be more open and inviting to new folks, but we still have a lot of work to do. What can you do if you want to break into the field of cybersecurity today? While there is no shortage of resources our experienced hosts will offer their thoughts, opinions, and advice on how you can become the next cybersecurity pro!   How well do you know your hacker history and trivia? See how you compare to our hosts as we tackle hacker trivia live on the air! Categories will

Is there still a network or has it slipped away from us entirely? What about efforts for localization because people do not trust the cloud, its providers or its reliability (ala Twitter vs. the Fediverse?). Do you still need actual hardware firewalls? What about VPNs? How long will these devices still be around as everyone goes to the cloud and SDWAN technologies? And what about identity? If you can nail identity, doesn't that set you up to be a cloud-first organization? Join us for a discussion with Sinan and the security weekly hosts as we tackle these questions! This segment is sponsored by Barracuda. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them!   Eclypsium's research team has discovered 3 vulnerabilities in BMCs. Nate Warfield comes on the show to tell the full story! This has garnered much attention in the press: * Original research post: https://eclypsium.com/2022/12/05/supply-chain-vulnerabilities-put-server-ecosystem-at-risk/ * https://www.securityweek.com/security-flaws-ami

We are joined by Josh and Kurt from the amazing Open Source Security Podcast! We're talking about supply chain risks, threats and vulnerabilities in this segment! Segment Resources: https://opensourcesecurity.io/   This week in the Security News: When you just wanna hurl, malicious containers, FCC bans stuff, these are not the CVE's you're looking for, Linux password mining, mind the gap, hacking smart watches, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw765

In the Security News: Stealing Mastodon passwords, reporting vulnerabilities in open-source privately, labeling does not solve problems, or does it? will it every get patched? geolocating people from photos, no meta-data required, update your firmware on Linux, hacking flow computers, when a driver isn't really a driver, well, its a driver, but not the one you may be thinking of, oops I leaked it again, misconfiguration leads to compromise, harden runner, guard dog and hacking spacecraft via Ethernet! Navigating the UEFI waters is treacherous. While UEFI has become the standard on most PCs, servers, and laptops, replacing legacy BIOS, it is a complex set of standards and protocols. Jesse joins us to help explain how some of this works and describe how vulnerabilities, specifically with SMM, can manifest and be exploited. Segment Resources: [CHIPSEC GitHub] https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes!   Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign

Every penetration test should have specific goals. Coverage of the MITRE ATT&CK framework or the OWASP Top Ten is great, but what other value can a pentest provide by shifting your mindset further left or with a more strategic approach? How often do you focus on the overall ROI of your penetration testing program? This talk will explore what it means to “shift left” with your penetration testing by working on a threat informed test plan. Using a threat informed test plan will provide more value from your pentesting program and gain efficiency in your security testing pipeline. This talk applies to both consultants and internal security teams. Segment Resources: Hack Your Pentesting Routine WP: https://plextrac.com/resources/white-papers/hack-your-pentesting-routine/ Effective Purple Teaming WP: https://plextrac.com/effective-purple-teaming/ This segment is sponsored by PlexTrac. Visit https://securityweekly.com/plextrac to learn more about them!   In the Security News: submerged under blankets in a popco

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   In the Security News: last year's open source is tomorrow's vulnerabilities, RepoJacking, I feel like there will always be authenitcation bypass, super charge your hacking, do you have your multipath, RC4 and why not to use it, here's the problem with vulnerability scanners, packages and expired domains, initrd should not be trusted, Apple kernels, oh and did you hear there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw762

This week in the Security News: A Security Maturity Model for Hardware Development, Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity auth bypass flaw in PAN-OS, New UEFI rootkit Black Lotus offered for sale at $5,000, What are SBOMS, & Critical Remote Code Execution issue impacts popular post-exploitation toolkit Cobalt Strike   Chris Crowley, SOC-Class Course Author, SANS Senior Instructor, and Consultant at Montance® LLC, joins PSW to discuss SOC training and development best practices, including insights from the SANS annual SOC survey. This segment is sponsored by Devo. Visit https://securityweekly.com/devo to learn more about them!   Michael Meis, associate CISO at the University of Kansas Health System, joins PSW to discuss how the history of warfare has influenced modern-day cybercrime and how cyber leaders can shift to a victory mindset. This segment is sponsored by Devo. Visit https://securityweekly.com/devo to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes!

This week in the Security News: rethinking vulnerability severity, exploiting the hacker tools, Microsoft "fixes" the vulnerable driver problem, its what you do with the data that matters, what is comprehensive security, deconflictions, moles are always a problem, checking the certs, oh and there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL, well at least one that we know of, currently!   In this segment, we are going to discuss linux security and using the Rust programming language with an Offensive MindSet, and our guest Charles Shirer! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw761

As Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry, Ismael Valenzuela leads threat research, intelligence, and defensive innovation. Ismael has participated as a security professional in numerous projects around the world for over the past two decades. In this episode, Ismael discusses his journey to become a top cybersecurity expert. We also explore the cybersecurity trends he and his team are seeing, and how cyber attackers are gaining a foothold and maintaining persistence. Segment Resources: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/company/research-and-intelligence https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/09/the-curious-case-of-monti-ransomware-a-real-world-doppelganger https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/06/symbiote-a-new-nearly-impossible-to-detect-linux-threat   This week in the Security News: The secrets of Schneider Electric’s UMAS protocol, Pixel 6 bootloader: Emulation, Securing Developer Tools: A New Supply Chain Attack on PHP, Microsoft Exchange double zero-day – “like ProxyShell, only

Red Balloon Security CEO Ang Cui has spent over a decade looking into the most critical devices supporting our infrastructure. He explains why the insight that launched his company still holds true, and what it will take for security experts, manufacturers and end users to resolve our insecure stasis.   Segment Resources: https://redballoonsecurity.com/ https://ofrak.com/ https://github.com/redballoonsecurity/ofrak https://redballoonsecurity.com/def-con-30-badge-fun-with-ofrak/ https://www.wired.com/story/ofrak-iot-reverse-engineering-tool/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/researchers-show-how-hackers-can-cut-the-lights-with-rogue-code   In the Security News: deep access, dell drivers for the win, detecting deep fakes with acoustic tracking, exchanging 0days, I got 99 embedded firmware security problems, executing in SMM, secure boot to the rescue, automation or a crappy pen test, PHP supply chain attacks, pig butchering, fake profiles, & bribing journalists!   Visit https://www.securit

Hackers rarely break through crypto or exploit fancy zero days. Most of the time they simply login using stolen credentials. Managing passwords, keys and other forms of secrets does not work at scale. In this segment we’ll look into a more radical approach to infrastructure security: getting rid of secrets entirely and moving to access control based on physical properties of humans and machines. This segment is sponsored by Teleport. Visit https://securityweekly.com/teleport to learn more about them!   This week, we're joined by Casey Ellis to discuss a Telco breach from a land down under, UK government sits out bug bounty boom but welcomes vulnerability disclosure, Karakurt Data Extortion Group, Microsoft Releases Workaround for ‘One-Click’ 0Day Under Active Attack, being caught with your pants down, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/

Sinan Eren, the VP of Zero Trust at Barracuda joins us to discuss various aspects of MFA Fatigue & Authentication with the PSW crew! Segment Resources: https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/NetSec_Report_The_State_of_IIoT_final.pdf This segment is sponsored by Barracuda Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them! In the Security News: Bloodhound's blind spots, Interactable Giraffe, don't use open-source, it has too many vulnerabilities, MFA fatigue, tamper protection, use-after-freedom, how not to do software updates, hacking gamers, stealing Teslas, safer Linux, trojan putty, there's money in your account, game leak makes history, GPS jammers, Uber blames LAPSUS, spying on your monitor from a zoom call, next-generation IPS with AI and ML for zero-day exploit detection, 3D printed meat, and what to do when the highway is covered with what is usually kept in the nightstand... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitte

Analyst burnout and the talent shortage are creating environments where teams are stressed out, overwhelmed, and frustrated. Security Operations managers (or anyone managing teams of security analysts) must empower their analysts with solutions that can make them more effective at their job. Thomas Kinsella joins to discuss why No-code automation is the ultimate solution to do that! Then, in the Security News: you liked the browser so much we put a browser in your browser, hackers are using sock puppets, the patch that kills performance, detect eavesdroppers, no more passwords, one-click account hijack thanks to JavaScript, the return of Shakata Ga Nai, GIFShell (or is it jifshell), Lexmark firmware confusion, and searching for a long lost copy of OS/2! Segment Resources: https://www.tines.com/reports/voice-of-the-soc-analyst/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.

John Hammond joins us today as we start off the show talking about Cybersecurity education! Training and education is a constant conversation within the cybersecurity community, but it doesn't have to be a hard problem to solve. We will discuss how to bring both valuable and actionable information into the industry and how that makes an impact, even in unexpected ways -- for better or for worse. Then, in the Security News: Lastpas breach, long live John McAfee, Macs getting fewer updates, CPE correlating to CVE, clicky clicky hacks, anti-cheat is not anti-hack, new LVFS release, $8 million zero day, don't sign crappy code, a very handy PI and a site that lets you send poop anonymously is hacked (it was a pretty crappy exploit)! Segment Resources: https://youtube.com/johnhammond010 Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.c

There's a lot of worry about "fakes" especially in a world rapidly adopting AI/ML, so it's time for solutions. "Solid" is the W3C open standard, extending HTTPS, to upgrade the Web with security paradigms that solve for data integrity. Distributed systems naturally break through digital moats, free control through proper ownership, thus helping expand and achieve the best of the Internet. Segment Resources: https://solidproject.org/ https://github.com/inrupt https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=29523 https://alltechishuman.org/davi-ottenheimer https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/inrupt_tim_bern.html https://events.inrupt.com/dublin   This week in the Security News: Crypto Miners Using Tox P2P Messenger as Command and Control Server, 8-year-old Linux Kernel flaw DirtyCred is nasty as Dirty Pipe, & Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops, & more! Segment Resources: Use code "securityweekly" to save 10% off Hack Red Con tickets at https://www.hackredcon.com/   Visit https://www.s

This week: Greg Conti joins us to discuss InfoSec Lessons from Military Strategy, Tactics, and Operational Art. Online conflict is widespread and at times the internet hurts more than it helps. In this segment, we’ll discuss ways to inform today’s enterprise defense by better understanding strategy, tactics and operational art from government influence operations, electronic warfare, and cyberspace operations! Then, Larry, Doug, Lee, Josh, and Chris Blask cover the security news from this week! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw752

We start off the show this week by welcoming the infamous Eclypsium security researchers Mickey and Jesse to talk about Secure Boot vulnerabilities. They walk us through the history of Secure Boot, how it works, previous research they've performed ("Boothole"), and some details on their current research presented at Defcon this year in a talk titled "One bootloader to rule them all". Then, in the Security News, key fob hacks and stealing cars, the best Black hat and defcon talks of all-time, open redirects are still open, the keys to decrypt the wizard of oz are in a strange place, why the Linux desktop sucks, why businesses should all switch to Linux desktops, SGX attacks, let me send you an Uber to take you to the bank, 27-factor authentication, start your management engines, and guess what, your DMs are not private, and you should have used Signal. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us

Guy will go through some of his career choices that eventually led to 25 years in a long and fun career in information and cybersecurity. Infosec has been a fascinating and challenging field which anyone can learn through training and some of the excellent YouTube videos. Segment Resources: http://handlers.sans.org/gbruneau/ https://isc.sans.edu/handler_list.html#guy-bruneau   In the Security News: when hackers are not behind and outage, when hackers are behind re-routing traffic, neat pseudo-keystroke loggers, when XSS leads to code excution, TLS inside, post-quantum encryption that doesn't hold up to pre-quantum computers, Lockbit loading Cobalt Strike using Windows Defender, we love authentication bypass, and impress your co-workers with my Linux command of the week, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebo

We’ve heard about the recent abuses for Apple’s AirTags used in tracking and stalking issues in recent months. While tools exist for detection under the Apple ecosystem, limited options exist for Android and none under Linux. We’ll explore the AirTag beacons and showcase some tools for detecting beacons and creating our own for testing under Linux. We’ll also show some ways to take our methods even further as an exercise left unto the reader.   In the Security News FreeBSD and the software supply chain, open-source implies that its open, hardcoded passwords are always bad, on-again, off-again, on-again, privilege escelation defined, preparing for quantum, so many vulnerabilities, CosmicStrand another UEFI firmware rootkit, & reviving ancient computers!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter!   Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook