Nine out of the ten funding articles mention AI - they're either using it in their products, or protecting AI use cases (particularly GenAI and LLM use).
We discuss Broadcom's closing of the VMware acquisition, how they operate similarly to private equity firms, and how it's mostly bad news for VMware employees and customers.
Some weird legal cases this week: Binance's founder and CEO pleads guilty to money laundering charges, a cybersecurity company's COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to generate sales leads, and Hacking Team's founder is arrested for attempted murder!
We devote a chunk of time to discussing the huge rise in ransomware activity, and close out the show with a squirrel story on the tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau, and how the .tk domain has destroyed its reputation, and nearly the nation itself.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341
Cybertruck, Okta, Google and More Google, Black Basta, Zoom, Unitronics, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-345
As with any category of trends, the success rate of cybercrime ebbs and flows. As Russia seems be a safe haven for cybercriminals, it seemed for a while that the war in Ukraine might disrupt this activity. It did, but only for a short while.
Keith Jarvis walks us through the latest types, tactics, and trends in cybercrime. Secureworks' latest State of the Threat report reveals a disturbing dichotomy: how is it we understand our adversaries' so well, but continue to fail to stop them? In this interview, we aim to understand what needs to happen to tilt the odds a bit back in our favor.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341
While non-profit doesn't mean "no budget" when it comes to cybersecurity, a lot of smaller to mid-sized non-profits operate on a shoestring, with little to no money for cybersecurity talent or spending. This is where Sightline Security steps in. Sightline's founder and CEO, Kelley Misata joins us today to explain how her own non-profit helps other non-profits improve their cybersecurity posture.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341
Our good friend Matt Carpenter joins us to share his thoughts on what's going on in the world of AI and LLMs. Matt is also a hacker specializing in hardware and the crew has some amazing hardware hacking topics to discuss (as usual).
Segment Resources: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-sam-altman-gone-full-gary-marcus
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-808
What will the future bring with respect to AI and LLMs? Josh has spent some time thinking about this and brings us some great resources. We'll discuss how to get students involved with AI in a safe and ethical manner. How can we use AI to teach people about cybersecurity? What tools are available and where do they fit into our educational systems that must change and adapt to the times? Join us for a fun discussion on what the future looks like with AI and the youth of today.
Segment Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/103FLvNRSwBhq-WgCbuykMvweT6lKf2lAASuP8OuuKIw/edit#heading=h.3inodmot2b77
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-808
Weak randomness in old JavaScript crypto, lack of encryption in purported end-to-end encryption, a platform engineering maturity model, PyPI's first security audit, vision for a Rust specification, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-264
Chimera, Aliquippa, FNF, Lazarus, DARPA, Ransom Payments, Namedrop, Google, Aaran Leyland, and more are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-344
This year we've talked about vulns, clouds, breaches, presentations, and all the variations of Dev, Sec, and Ops. As we end the year, let's talk about starting things -- like starting an appsec program or an appsec career. But is there still a need for an appsec team? Or has it turned into specializations for areas like cloud security and bug bounty programs? We'll cover careers and coding, with an eye towards figuring out what modern software development looks like and where application (or product!) security fits in that model.
Segment resources
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-264
In the leadership and communications section, Clorox Scapegoats Cyber Chief, Rewards Board After Crisis, The SEC To CISOs: Welcome To The Big Leagues, SolarWinds: SEC lacks 'competence' to regulate cybersecurity, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-329
Most leadership books suffer from one of two critical failures (and sometimes both). The book might be a hagiography: telling you the biography of some amazing leaders, pretending there is one secret trick that will let you emulate that leader. Or the lesson of book should have been written as a tweet: in 280 characters you could have learned one lesson, but instead you have to fight through 300 pages of obfuscation to decipher the lesson.
1% Leadership is the antidote to these approaches. There is no secret. Instead, 1% Leadership provides 54 distinct lessons on leadership, that apply to individuals, teams, and organizations. Each lesson is presented in a self-contained chapter, averaging under 800 words. The lessons are summarized in a tweet-length pithy summary, which is also the chapter title. The table of contents thus serves as a quick reference guide for leaders.
Segment Resources: csoandy.com/book/
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-329
From Russia With Love, come Doug and Russ, doing a segment on spying! Not the 007 spying, but spying when it comes to cyber warfare.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-6
High School students represent the very beginning of the pipeline for the Cyber industry. What are the attitudes and perspectives of these young people? How can we attract the best and brightest into our industry?
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-5
Brian Snow spent his first 20 years at NSA doing and directing research that developed cryptographic components and secure systems. Many cryptographic systems serving the U.S. government and military use his algorithms; they provide capabilities not previously available and span a range from nuclear command and control to tactical radios for the battlefield. He created and managed NSA's Secure Systems Design division in the 1980s. He has many patents, awards, and honors attesting to his creativity.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-5
Russ runs the show solo with the absence of Dr. Doug to talk about Travel Security! He explains different aspects such as Personal Security, Asset Security, and Digital Security! Traveling is a lot of fun, but also requires a lot of responsibility. Don't be intimidated, use common sense, adhere to all of the points we mentioned above, stay away from problem areas, and we ensure you’ll have a great time!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-5
We often think "this would be so much better if done properly from the beginning", but the reality is, doing things from scratch comes with different challenges. Managing priorities, deciding what you tackle on from the absolute beginnings of a company in terms of security is a fun challenge.
Segment Resources:
Full session at the upcoming GoSec Conference: https://www.gosec.net/sessions/
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-5
Firmware security is complex and continues to be an industry challenge. In this podcast we'll talk about the reasons firmware security remains a challenge and some best practices around platform security.
Segment Resources:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/27/firmware-blind-spots/
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/09/28/hardware-security-challenges/
https://darkreading.com/application-security/4-open-source-tools-to-add-to-your-security-arsenal
Hardware Hacking created by Maggie: https://securityweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/eArt-2.png
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-asw-5
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-340
Cashwarp vs. Reptar, Rackspace, BlackCat, Intel, AMD, Bots and more bots, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-343
We regularly cover significant breaches on this podcast, but it is rare that we have enough information about a major breach to cover in enough detail to devote an entire segment to. Today, we dive into lessons learned from the breach of Okta's customer support system that targeted some other major security vendors.
This is part of a troubling trend, where the target of an attack only serves as a jumping off point to other organizations. China's 2023 attack of Microsoft is an example of this. It was easier to attack Microsoft 365, one of the world's largest business SaaS platforms, than to go after each of the 25 individual targets these Chinese actors needed access to.
Traditionally, we've thought of lateral movement as something that happens within a network segment, or even within a single organization. Now, we're seeing lateral movement between SaaS platforms, between clouds, from third party vendors to customer, and even from open source project to open source adopters.
In this segment, we'll cover five key lessons learned from Okta's breach, from information shared by Okta and three of its customers: 1Password, Cloudflare, and BeyondTrust.
Segment Resources
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-340
Cybertruck, Solarwinds, Bitcoin, Docker, Ducktail, Experian, More News and Jason Wood, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-342
Once again, Theresa Lanowitz joins us to discuss Edge Computing, but with a twist this time, as Mani Keerthi Nagotu from SentinelOne joins us as well! As a field CISO, Mani knows all too well the struggles security leaders are going through, given the current market and threat landscape:
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This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecurity to learn more about them!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-340
In the Security News: SSH under attack, IoT routers have vulnerabilities, the BLE Spam attacks still work against iPhones, there is a longer story behind BLE spam, and Larry is one of the stars, denial of pleasure via BLE, vulnerability disclosure and your blob is showing, the half-day watcher, tapping into cameras, 50 shades of vulnerabilities, Nuclear decay as a random number generator, cachewarp, reptar, attacking Danish critical infrastructure, you can’t patch a house of cards (and your bitcoin may be at risk), All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-807
Attackers pursue the shortest path to achieve their goals in your app. With a tri-layered security architecture, you can force hackers to crawl through a triathlon in your app. What’s in the three layers, to detect attacks sooner, slow attackers down, and stop them fast? Let’s take a journey across the three layers and discuss how to gain control of user permissions, secure your cloud computing, and keep your customers and their users safe.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-807
CNCF's releases a handbook on fuzzing, OpenSSF and OWASP respond to CISA's Open Source Software Security RFI, 14 years of Go, lessons for today from an internet worm from 35 years ago, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-263