The memoir of world-renowned hacker Cris Thomas “Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World” is available for pre-order now. The new book, to be released on February 16, 2023, will cover the influential hacking group L0pht Heavy Industries, the hacker underground of the 1990s, the L0pht’s rise to prominence, their testimony in front of the US Senate, their claim of being able to “take down the Internet”, and how their legacy continues to shape the security of the online world today.
Segment Resources:
https://securityweekly.com/spacerogue
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Zero Trust is the buzzword of the 2020’s. Vendors are selling it, the US Federal Government is requiring it, and organizations are implementing it, but what does it really mean (I mean really beyond the hype)? In this segment, Paul and Ron will talk ways combat threats through people, process, and technology Zero Trust Risk Management.
Segment Resources:
Forrester Research Zero Trust blogs: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/category/zero-trust-security-framework-ztx/
Ron Woerner YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ronw68123
VetSec: https://veteransec.org/
Free CISSP Training Program: https://frsecure.com/cissp-mentor-program/
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw773
In the leadership and communications section, What CISOs Should Know About Hacking in 2023, Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change, Listening — The most important communication skill, and more!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw294
Reddit's breach disclosure, simple vulns in Toyota's web portals, OpenSSL vulns, voting results for Portswigger's top 10 web hacking techniques of 2022, tiny IoT cryptography implementations, real world migration of a million lines of code
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw229
How do you manage the human side of cybersecurity? Traditionally, security awareness programs have checked this box from a compliance angle but had minimal impact on cyber risk. Human Risk Management (HRM) is transforming this space by connecting an integrated, data-driven approach with personalized security training to deliver quantifiable results. In this session, we'll define HRM, explore how it is being adopted, and review the business case supporting the change.
This segment is sponsored by Living Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/livingsecurity to learn more about them!
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This week, guest host Aaran Leyland takes over with expert commentator Josh Marpet! Tune in for Clipper malware, Chinese hackers, record DDoS attack, Apple patch zero day flaw and more!
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Organizations spend hundreds of work hours to build applications and services that will benefit customers and employees alike. Whether the application/service is externally facing or for internal use only, it is mandatory to identify and understand the scope of potential cyber risks and threats it poses to the organization. But where and how do you start with an accurate threat model? Nick can discuss how to approach this and create a model that's useful to security and developers alike.
Segment Resources
https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/2022-12-curl-threatmodel.pdf
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw229
Dysentery, Healthcare Privacy, Gootloader, Bing AI, Vela, Russian jobs, Reddit, and Bradley Barth discusses his series on Walmart. All this and more on the Security Weekly News.
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In the Enterprise News: Whether you want insurtechs or not, they’re here and you’re getting them! Don't worry - we’ll explain what insurtechs are. Two potential deals to take security companies private: Sumo Logic and Rapid 7! Looks like 32 year old security company Cyren is shutting down, hoping for an asset sale. They've already laid off all their employees. Big drama: a firm shorts Darktrace and releases a scathing report. We've got yet more more layoffs this week, but don't fret - the NSA is hiring! For our squirrel stories, we'll be deciding between three stories: codebreakers solve 500 year old ciphers, the real cost of meetings visualized, and sushi terrorists! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Syxsense and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently teamed up to publish a survey around the current state of Zero Trust within enterprises as well as where it’s going. This interview will discuss the key findings and insights into the challenges many organizations face around Zero Trust, as well as endpoint security and network access.
Segment Resources:
https://www.syxsense.com/advancing-zero-trust-priorities
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Tanium has recently released a new capability called Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to help customers identify third-party libraries associated with software packages.
• What is Tanium SBOM
• Why is it different and why do you need it
• How to configure SBOM
• How to query for the details about every software application in your environment
• Where your vulnerable packages exist
• Ways that Tanium can remediate vulnerabilities from OpenSSL to Struts to Log4j today as well as new supply-chain vulnerabilities in the future
No one knows what the next supply chain vulnerability is going to be, but with Tanium, you will have access to data about how your applications are affected before it happens so that when it does, you're ready to take action to remediate the issue from within the Tanium XEM platform.
Segment Resources:
https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-sbom/
https://www.tanium.com/blog/software-bill-of-materials-openssl/
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In the Security News: VMware and Ransomware makes you want to run some where, double-free your OpenSSH, download the RIGHT software, you have Docker, I have root, we don't talk about CORS, to vulnerability or not to vulnerability, vulnerability risk scoring, a matter of perspective, very persistent Cisco attacks, running UPNP without all the protections, overflowing a buffer in your bootloader over HTTP, C can be memory safe (but developers will still screw it up), and lasers, microwaves, satellites and the Sun! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw772
Linux systems are a collection of free and Open Source software-- some packaged by your distro, some built from source. How do you verify that your upstream isn't polluted by bad actors?
Segment Resources:
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
https://securityonionsolutions.com/software/
https://deer-run.com/users/hal/
https://archive.org/details/HalLinuxForensics
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw772
In the leadership and communications section, Who Does Your CISO Report To?, 5 CISO Traps to Avoid and Truths to Embrace, How to effectively communicate cybersecurity best practices to staff, and more!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw293
The aviation equivalent of ASCII art, a memory safety issue in OpenSSH that might not be terrible, a format string in F5 that might be terrible, a new MITRE framework for supply chain security, programming languages and secure code
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw228
Chat-GPT fails, Ernie, Bard, Chinese Androids, Fortra, Sunlogin, Dingo Token, Google Ads, Jason Wood and More on this edition of Security Weekly News.
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This week, it's Security Money. While the major indexes have improved, the SW25 index has not. Pressures from the macro economic conditions appear to have a greater impact on cybersecurity. We'll dig in and review.
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Most of the myths and lies in InfoSec take hold because they seem correct or sound logical. Similar cognitive biases make it possible for even the most preposterous conspiracy theories to become commonly accepted in some groups. This is a talk about the importance of critical thinking and checking sources in InfoSec. Our industry is relatively new and constantly changing. Too often, we operate more off faith and hope than fact or results. Exhausted and overworked defenders often don't have the time to seek direct evidence for claims, question sources, or test theories for themselves.
Resources
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2023/presentation/sanabria
- https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/enigma2023_slides_sanabria.pdf
- Discuss: What Makes a Good Breach Response? - ESW #303: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpZiVu3xEs
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In the Enterprise News: There's lots of executive shuffling going on! Saviynt gets a new CEO and $205M in funding, Forescout appoints its 4th CEO in as many years, and Mudge finds a place at Rapid 7. We've got some interesting trends, like more focus on securing small businesses, and more cybersecurity startups pairing technology with cyber insurance. It seems like only yesterday, we were shocked to hear that Microsoft was running a $10B security business, but Microsoft has apparently now grown security revenue to $20 BILLION DOLLARS. Also, Tyler explains what Herman Miller chairs have to do with spotting market trends, we note the 20 year anniversary of SQL Slammer, and discuss why consumers don’t want smart appliances shoved down their throats!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw304
This week in the Security News Doug Chides: Chat-GPT, QNAP, Google FI, REDIS, Headcrab, Banner, GoodRx, Oracle, GoAnywhere, & more!
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Insiders - employees, contractors, and partners - are responsible for almost a quarter of data breaches. Reducing insider risk requires a dedicated approach, including user monitoring. But be careful, Forrester predicts that a C-level executive will be fired for their firm’s use of employee monitoring in 2023.
Segment Resources:
https://www.forrester.com/blogs/predictions-2023-security/?ref_search=3092262_1675290315432
https://www.forrester.com/blogs/apply-critical-thinking-and-culture-to-reduce-insider-risk/
https://www.forrester.com/blogs/practice-empathy-to-reduce-insider-risk/
https://www.forrester.com/blogs/pandemic-fallout-creates-perfect-conditions-for-insider-threat/
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw304
Cyber insurance is a must-have, but organizations are finding that cyber insurance premiums are more costly, policies are more difficult to obtain, and policies attach more limitations and exclusions than before. We will discuss cyber insurance’s role in risk management and trends.
Segment Resources:
https://www.forrester.com/report/q-and-a-cyber-insurance/RES178563?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw304
In the Security News for this week: defending against cleaning services, catastrophic mutating events and the future, myths and misconceptions, finding vulnerabilities in logs (And not log4j), SSRF leads to RCE with a PoC, SQLi with XSS bypasses WAF FTW, thinkpad as a server, RPC directory traversal for the win, just directory traversal for the win, Paul gets a Flipper Zero and how he thinks he's some sort of hero, sh1mmer your chromebook, and superconductive magic angle graphene!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw771
In a recent survey on purple teaming, 89 percent of respondents who had used the method deemed purple teaming activities “very important” to their security operations. Purple teaming exercises conducted regularly have the power to improve collaboration across teams, ensure issues are identified and remediated more proactively, and provide a means to measure progress over time. With all these benefits, why isn’t everyone doing it? Purple teaming doesn’t have to be such a heavy lift. With the right mindset and tools, any team can get started regardless of resources. This talk will highlight practical tips for getting started with purple teaming exercises and show off PlexTrac Runbooks, a platform designed to plan, execute, report, and remediate collaborative purple teaming engagements so teams can maximize their efforts and improve their security posture.
Segment Resources:
Learn more and book a demo: https://plextrac.com/securityweekly
More information on Runbooks: https://plextrac.com/platform/runbooks/
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw771
A $10M ransom demand to Riot Games, a DoS in BIND and why there's no version 10, an unexpected refactor at Twilio, insights in Rust from the git security audit, SQL Slammer 20 years later, the SQLMap tool
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw227