This week, Dr. Doug talks: AI vs. Hunter Thompson, Sandstorm, BGP, Earth Estries, DOE, VMWare Aria, Key Group, DSA, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-323
There's still serious, late stage funding for compelling tech in cybersecurity, SpyCloud proves with it's $110M Series D. We discuss the SentinelOne/Wiz merger rumors. Sadly layoffs and even company failures are still occurring, thought Tyler thinks the market downturn is close to bottoming out. NordVPN spins off an AI skunkworks called NordLabs. The Browser Company has a great company vision page that's worth checking out. Two interesting LLM prompt-related tools to check out are PIPE and promptmap (both on github). Brazilian phone spyware WebDetetive (sic) gets hacked and all victim data deleted. US takes down QakBot and *removes* it from infected systems! Finally, a homing pigeon proves that birds are faster than gigabit Internet :D
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-330
Having direct visibility into your access data is crucial for two reasons: 1. Simplifying audit preparation and 2. Managing progress of your identity program to ensure peak performance. Internal auditors and compliance managers need easy access to granular data points to understand and demonstrate compliance to external agencies. Gaining access to real time data creates a great deal of autonomy for audit and identity teams to be able to delve deep into their identity programs and prove compliance. However, making the data available even internally can put organizations at risk for data leaks and data policy violations. Erik will outline how companies can gain access to their current identity search and dashboard data and be able to query in their preferred BI tool based on their own data privacy policies and business needs, significantly reducing risk.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-330
In the Security News: How not to send all your browser data to Google, apparently Microsoft needs pressure to apply certain fixes, the mutli-hundred-billion-dollar-a-year industry that tries to secure everything above the firmware, security through obscrurity doesn’t work, should you hire cybersecurity consultants, pen testing is key for compliance, defense contractor leaks, inside a McFlurry machine, Barracuda is still chasing hackers, why Linux is more secure than windows, more details on WinRar and middle-out compression, a Wifi worm?, CVE-2020-19909 is almost everything that is wrong with CVE, Tacos, and hacking through a Fire stick! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-797
Amanda joins us to discuss aspects of incident response, including how to get the right data to support findings related to an incident, SMB challenges, cloud event logging, and more! Amanda works for Blumira and is the co-author of "Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure."
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-797
Mystery, Qakbot, Crates.io, VDP, NetScaler, Entra ID, SynthID, FreeBSD, More News, and Jason Wood on the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-322
We go deep on LLMs and generative AIs to shine a light on areas that security leaders should focus on. There are technical concerns like prompt injection and access controls, and privacy concerns in training and usage. But there are also areas where security tools are starting to address these concerns as well as areas where security tools are adopting AI themselves. We'll share where we see AI showing promise, as well as where we suspect it's still premature.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-253
In the leadership and communications section, A CISO's Actionable Strategy for Success, Security basics aren’t so basic — they’re hard, Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-318
A Go Crypto presentation from Real World Crypto, Excel releases support for Python, protecting users from malware like the Luna Grabber and WinRAR RCE, DARPA's V-SPELLS project, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-253
The metaverse is an evolving storytelling environment in which humans have congregated for millennia to experience alternate, immersive, and simulated realities, with or without technology. Storytelling is designed to influence mental and physical perceptions suiting the purposes of the content creators. Metawar is the art of applying science to create and defend against the influence of alternate realities in the metaverse. What if we can longer rely on our senses to determine what is real and what is fiction? Winn's research into Metawar initially focused on metaversal technologies. Unexpectedly, it morphed into an intensely personal experience, triggering Winn's own Metanoia, which had a profound impact on the entire Metawar Thesis.
Winn joins Business Security Weekly to share his Metanoia.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-318
During this segment, Jon will explore today’s ransomware economy players from IABS to RaaS affiliates, to money launders and now C2Ps. For the discussion, Jon will leverage Halcyon’s latest research, which demonstrates a new technique to uncover how C2Ps, like Cloudzy, are used to identify upcoming ransomware campaigns and other advanced attacks. The research revealed that Cloudzy, knowingly or not, provided services to attackers while assuming a legitimate business profile. Threat actors that leveraged Cloudzy include APT groups tied to the Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, and Vietnamese governments; a sanctioned Israeli spyware vendor whose tools are known to target civilians; several criminal syndicates and ransomware affiliates whose campaigns have spurred international headlines.
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In this session, Snehal will discuss several real-world examples of what autonomous pentesting discovered in networks just like yours. You’ll hear more about how fast and easy it was to safely compromise some of the biggest (and smallest) networks in the world - with full domain takeover in a little more than a few hours. Learn how you can safely do the same in your own network today!
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In this Black Hat 2023 interview, CRA’s Bill Brenner and Sophos’ John Shier discuss the company’s latest research on the Royal ransomware gang. Though Royal is a notoriously closed off group that doesn’t openly solicit affiliates from underground forums, granular similarities in the forensics of the attacks suggest all three groups are sharing either affiliates or highly specific technical details of their activities.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-329
Openfire, Firepower, Barracuda, CosmicBeetle, Lazarus, Encryption, Network Tourism, India's on the Moon, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-321
Record funding levels over the last two weeks top 2023 and the same time last year. We discuss Palo Alto's plans for the future, CISA's analysis of the LAPSUS$ hacking group, and the uselessness of Quantum Security pitches. Chrome adds the ability to alert users about malicious extensions. A great post from Thinkst has us talking about why vendors (and buyers) need to be careful about default behaviors and documentation. You won't want to miss the excellent squirrel story - a front end for Reddit that looks like Microsoft Outlook.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-329
Incredibly, the seemingly simple task of managing corporate-owned devices is still a struggle for most organizations in 2023. Maybe best MDM for Mac doesn't work with Windows, or the best MDM for Windows doesn't work with Mac. Maybe neither have Linux support. Perhaps they don't provide enough insight into the endpoint, or control over it. Whatever the case, security leaders never seem satisfied with their MDM solution and are always investigating new ones. Now, Kolide has stepped in with a unique approach to device management, combining the flexibility and industry support for OSQuery and built to integrate with IdP giant Okta. We discuss Kolide's entrance into the device management space and the current state of MDM - what's wrong with it, and how does Kolide propose to fix it?
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-329
In the Security News: Lora projects are popular, simple checksums are not enough, WinRAR: shareware or native OS?, ATM software is vulnerable, attackers could learn from security researchers (but lets hope they don’t), NoFilter and behavior by design, Apple vs. A security researcher: there are no winners, sneaky npm packages, faster Nmap scans, kali on more phones, more LOl drivers, comparing security benchmarks to the real world, tunnelcrack and why VPNs are over-hyped, Ubuntu has lost its mind, and there’s a Python in the sheets! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-796
Jared has a long, and outstanding, history in cybersecurity. Today, he works for Microsoft helping them run and respond to bug bounty reports. The scale is massive and I think we can all learn a thing or two about vulnerability management and bug bounties!
Segment Resources:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty?rtc=1
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc
https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/vulnerability/new
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/
https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/search?q=msrc&l=en_us&pg=1&pgSz=20&o=Relevance&flt=true
https://www.microsoft.com/bluehat/
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-796
Discord.io ceases to be, Azure AD breach to get scrutiny from the CSRB, Zoom's AI stumbles show security concerns, model confusion attacks, a look at how far we have -- and haven't -- come with XSS flaws, an approachable article on AI, and more!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-252
Cold Fusion Flaw, EncroChat, sneaky Amazon and Google, Spoofing Apple devices, Telsa data breach, Space and Jason Wood on this episode of the Security Weekly News! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-320
Ransomware-as-a-Service has contributed to a steady rise in sophisticated ransomware attacks. Ransomware authors are increasingly staying under the radar by launching encryption-less attacks which involve large volumes of data exfiltration. Organizations must move away from using legacy point products and instead migrate to a fully integrated zero trust platform that minimizes their attack surface, prevents compromise, reduces the blast radius in the event of a successful attack, and prevents data exfiltration.
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The security mediascape is buzzing with discussions around the growing threat of generative AI. But, how can we use this powerful new weapon for good? In this executive interview, IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti walks us through the ways in which generative AI can be used to significantly harden organizations’ cyber defenses, and even unveils the latest, cutting-edge tools to be added to IRONSCALES’ growing AI suite of capabilities. Meet IRONSCALES’ Themis Co-Pilot for Outlook and learn how your team can use artificial intelligence to tip the scales back in your favor.
Segment Resources:
https://ironscales.com/company/news-awards/news/ironscales-announces-themis-copilot
Video: https://youtu.be/ayn8ecsNgKY
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-317
Modern applications are transforming how businesses serve their customers, employees, and partners. But they also challenge security teams with limited to no visibility or control while expanding an organization’s attack surface. Jason Rolleston, vice president and general manager of VMware Carbon Black, discusses how security teams can enable their companies to safely adopt modern application environments.
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In today's mobile-first world, where Android and iOS apps are crucial for customer engagement, companies often overlook the vulnerability of their applications - which poses a growing risk to the enterprise. While business cybersecurity measures are robust, hackers exploit the app path to circumvent server-side security. To help you understand the risks and safeguard your mobile apps and your customer PII, Asaf Ashkenazi will talk about the top mobile app attacks, the real-world implications, the blind spot in many company security teams, and easy ways to protect, detect and respond to this growing threat.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-252
The Security Weekly 25 Index is still trying to recover. Inflation fears have tampered the recovery and the NASDAQ is outperforming the Index. Fastly replaces Sumo Logic in the Index and Thoma Bravo has not acquired anyone, so hoping the index stays stable for more than a quarter :). Here's the latest list of companies in the index:
Secureworks Corp
Palo Alto Networks Inc
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Splunk Inc
Gen Digital Inc
Fortinet Inc
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
F5 Inc
Zscaler Inc
Onespan Inc
Leidos Holdings Inc
Qualys Inc
Verint Systems Inc.
Cyberark Software Ltd
Tenable Holdings Inc
Darktrace PLC
SentinelOne Inc
Cloudflare Inc
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc
NetScout Systems, Inc.
Varonis Systems Inc
Rapid7 Inc
Fastly Inc
Radware Ltd
A10 Networks Inc
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-317
The rapid growth of APIs used to build microservices in cloud-native architecture has left many enterprises in the dark when it comes to knowing where, how many, and what types of APIs they have. With multiple teams creating their own API endpoints without shared visibility or governance, exposed APIs can become a critical threat vector for hackers to exploit. Edgio's new advanced API security capabilities give customers integrated and unparalleled protection at the edge, protecting APIs that are critical to modern businesses. Edgio delivers these services as part of its fully integrated holistic Web Application and API protection solutions giving customers the ability to respond to threats quicker. An edge-enabled holistic security platform can effectively reduce the attack surface, and improve the effectiveness of the defense while reducing the latency of critical web applications via its multi-layered defense approach. Edgio's security platform “shrinks the haystacks” so that organizations can better focus on delivering key business outcomes.
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Offensive security is a proactive approach that identifies weaknesses using the same exploitation techniques as threat actors. It combines vulnerability management with pen testing and red team operations to “expose and close” vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
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Join us at Black Hat as we delve into the world of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers. In this podcast, we'll explore the critical factors to consider when selecting an MDR provider, uncover the common shortcomings in their services, and discuss the necessary evolution required to ensure ongoing effectiveness and enhanced value for customers. Get ready to unravel the complexities of MDR and gain insights into the future of this vital cybersecurity solution.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-328
Elon Throttling, Dilithium, Africa, Suse, Citrix, QR Codes, AI Meetings, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-319
As more organizations explore edge computing, understanding the entire ecosystem is paramount for bolstering security and resiliency, especially within a critical industry like healthcare. In this segment, Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism at AT&T Business, will provide a deep dive into the state of edge computing—specifically, how it is revolutionizing healthcare.
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With Active Directory (AD) exploited in 9 out of 10 cyberattacks, delaying AD modernization—especially after a merger or acquisition—can compound security risks. Security is the most compelling reason to migrate to a pristine AD forest or perform an AD forest or domain consolidation, but many organizations delay such projects due to the effort and planning they require. We talk with Mickey Bresman about the keys to a smooth and secure AD modernization strategy.
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Security organizations are increasingly adopting data lakes and cloud services as additions or alternatives to traditional SIEMs, but face challenges like scarcity of data engineering expertise and high data ingestion and cloud compute costs. To overcome these, a new security data stack is emerging, guided by models like SecDataOps and supported by solutions like Tenzir. In this segment, we will be talking about what is driving the heavy use of data in security operations, why that is stressing traditional security operations tools and processes, and what some early-adopter organizations are doing to meet these challenges.
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