BrakeSec Education Podcast

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Show Topic Summary: Ms. Berlin proposes a question of how to gather more headcount with metrics, we discuss the BLUFFS bluetooth vulnerability, and “Ranty Claus” talks about CISA’s remarks of putting the onus on device product makers to remove choice for customers and implement secure defaults. #youtube VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emcAzTx9z0c  Questions and topics: https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-goldstein-secure-by-design/ https://hackaday.com/2023/12/02/update-on-the-bluffs-bluetooth-vulnerability/ Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): https://cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly-secure-by-design/ https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/stop-passing-buck-cybersecurity  Examples of companies forcing changes https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-will-roll-out-mfa-enforcing-policies-for-admin-portal-access/   https://github.com/aya-rs/aya - eBPF implementation in Rust https://ossfortress.io/   https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/critical-logofail-bugs-secure-boot-bypass-millions-pcs  Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth  Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake on Mastodon.social, https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb  Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Twitter: @brakesec  Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec

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Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed on this program are solely the views of the individuals involved and by no means represent absolute facts. Opinions expressed by the host and guests can change at any time, and do not represent views of past, present, or future employers.   Guest Bio: Nicole is the Chief Product Officer at Axio. Nicole has spent her career building awareness around the benefits of usable security and human-centered security as a way to increase company revenue and create a seamless user experience.  Youtube VOD Link: https://youtube.com/live/tFaAB9an47g  Questions and topics: Usable security: is it an oxymoron? What determines if the security is ‘usable’ or no? We sacrifice security for a better UX, what can be done to alleviate that? Or is it some sort of sliding scale in “poor UX, amazing security or awesome UX, poor security” Examples of poor UX for ‘people’: MFA, and password managers. SEC updates and ‘material events’ and how that would affect security, IR, and other company reporting functions.    Also, additional documentation (Regulation S-K Item 106) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicole-sundin-5225a1149_sec-adopts-rules-on-cybersecurity-risk-management-activity-7090065804083290112-ISD8 Are companies ready to talk about their cybersecurity? Can the SEC say “you’re not doing enough?”  What is ‘enough’? Are we heading toward yet another audit needed for public companies, similar to SOX? When does an 8-K get publicly disclosed? Materiality is based on a “reasonable investor”? So, you don’t need to announce that until you’re certain, and it’s based on what you can collect? Cyber Risk Management and some good examples of how to set up a proper cyber risk organization Additional Links: https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/usable-cybersecurity/images-media/Is%20Usable%20Security%20an%20Oxymoron.pdf http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/Basic.html https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-139 https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/munter-statement-assessing-materiality-030922 https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/cybersecurity-risk-regulatory/sec-final-cybersecurity-disclosure-rules.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/technology-onepagers/hc-computing.html  https://securityscorecard.com/blog/what-is-cyber-security-performance-management/  

John Aron, CEO of Aronetics, discusses 'letters of Marque' for hackers, overreliance on automation, and communication siloes in infosec. Also explores the role of AI in 'junior positions' and the challenges of automation. The podcast covers topics like the pros and cons of automation, communication issues, and the idea of 'letters of Marque' for hackers.

Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed on this program are solely the views of the individuals involved and by no means represent absolute facts. Opinions expressed by the host and guests can change at any time, and do not represent views of past, present, or future employers. Buy here: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/security/9781801076715 Amazon Link: https://packt.link/megan Youtube VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1_jQa9OQ2w   Show Topic Summary: Megan Roddie is currently working as a Senior Security Engineer at IBM. Along with her work at IBM, she works with the SANS Institute as a co-author of FOR509, presents regularly at security conferences, and serves as CFO of Mental Health Hackers. Megan has two Master's degrees, one in Digital Forensics and the other in Information Security Engineering, along with many industry certifications in a wide range of specialties. When Megan is not fighting cybercrime, she is an active competitor in Muay Thai/Kickboxing. She is a co-author of “Practical Threat Detection Engineering” from Packt publishing, on sale now in print and e-book. Buy here: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/security/9781801076715   https://packt.link/megan ← Amazon redirect link that publisher uses if you want something easier on the notes   Questions and topics: Of the 3 models, which do you find you use more and why? (PoP, ATT&CK, kill chain) What kind of orgs have ‘detection engineering’ teams? What roles are involved here, and can other teams (like IR) be involved or share a reverse role there? Lab setup requires an agent… any agent for ingestion or something specific?  How does Fleet or data ingestion work for Iot/Embedded device testing? Anything you suggest? How important is it to normalize your log output for ingestion? (app, web, server all tell the story) Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): Unified Kill Chain: https://www.unifiedkillchain.com/ ATT&CK: https://attack.mitre.org/  D3FEND matrix BrakeSec show from 2021: https://brakeingsecurity.com/2021-023-d3fend-framework-dll-injection-types-more-solarwinds-infections  Pyramid of Pain: https://detect-respond.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-pyramid-of-pain.html https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98486-435-million-the-average-cost-of-a-data-breach  https://medium.com/@gary.j.katz (per Megan, ‘it’s basically Chapter 11 of the book’) Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth  Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake on Mastodon.social, Twitter, bluesky Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Twitter: @brakesec  Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec

Check out our sponsor (BLUMIRA) at https://blumira.com/brake youtube channel link: https://youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast Full video on our youtube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkBeLuM_urk https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/07/11/cve-2023-29298-adobe-coldfusion-access-control-bypass/ https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/hacker-infected-foiled-by-own-infostealer https://therecord.media/cisa-warnings-adobe-microsoft-citrix-vulnerabilities https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2023/07/18/millions-of-keyboard-walk-patterns-found-in-compromised-passwords/ https://therecord.media/airline-customer-support-phone-number-fraud-google https://twitter.com/Shmuli/status/1680669938468499458 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36884 https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/tabletop-exercises-as-risk-mitigation-5278057/ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/linux-ransomware-poses-significant-threat-to-critical-infrastructure https://bevyengine.org/  - Rust game engine https://godotengine.org/ - a more mature Rust game engine https://flappybird.io/ - which I suck at, BTW Intro/outro music: "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of YouTube Music Library (used with proper permissions)  

BrakeSec Show Outline – No Guest   Show Topic Summary (less than 300 words) Bsides Seattle and Bsides Austin   Youtube VOD: https://youtube.com/live/UGRaRSYj7kc    Questions and potential sub-topics (5 minimum): Bsides Seattle update and Bsides Austin Patching the unpatchable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkerian_Hexad  Power and influence  (is power bad? Is influence?) 5.  https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=357001027119125105074103081006094117005092014048001013007086030071009081068110103025024041103038045036033080107020112080097022024073029064061065125002071028013110008011045013116002084024000066075067001126004101003027004086091007025096080019022003104&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE (A Theory of Creepy: Technology, Privacy and Shifting Social Norms) (contact info for people to reach out later):   Additional information / pertinent Links (would you like to know more?): (contact info for people to reach out later): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-shares-guidance-to-detect-blacklotus-uefi-bootkit-attacks/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-dev-claims-to-sell-new-blacklotus-windows-uefi-bootkit/   Show Points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth  Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake @bryanbrake@mastodon.social Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/brakesec Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast  Email: bds.podcast@gmail.com  

Show Topic Summary (less than 300 words) Insider threat still exists, Lynsey Wolf talks with us about HR’s role in insider threat, how prevalent investigations are in the post-pandemic work from home environment.   Questions and potential sub-topics (5 minimum): What is the difference between insider threat and insider risk? Motivators of insider threat (not much different than espionage,IMO -bryan)  (MICE: Money, Ideology, Compromise, and Ego.) https://thestack.technology/pentagon-leaks-insider-threat-sysadmin/  75% of all insider threats are being kicked off by HR departments. In short, it's proactive. “How did HR figure that out?” How are investigations normally initiated? What tools are they implementing to check users or predicting a disgruntled employee?” UEBA? CASB? Employee surveys that are ‘anonymous’? Someone who reported others and it was dismissed? What if HR ‘gets it wrong’ or ‘it’s a hunt to find people no into ‘groupthink’ or ‘not a culture fit’? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-worker-fired-for-not-being-fun-at-work-wins-lawsuit-cubik-responds/ How can organizations be mindful of how and what data is collected to mitigate risk without affecting employee trust? And who watches the watchers to ensure data is handled responsibly? Are there any privacy guidelines companies need to understand before they implement such a system? (GDPR? CCPA? Privacy notices? Consent to monitoring on login? https://securiti.ai/blog/hr-employee-data-protection/ ) Are companies causing the thing they are protecting against? (making an insider threat because they’ve become repressive?) (hoping there’s an ‘everything in moderation idea here… finding the happy medium between responsible ‘observability’ and ‘surveillance’) Lots of ‘insider threat’ tools, including from EDR companies. Do companies do a good job of explaining to employees why you need EDR? Quiet Quitting - latest term for companies to use to describe “employee has a side gig”. How does this figure into insider threat? Is it assumed that people only have one ‘thing’ they do, or did the lack of a commute give people more time during the pandemic to diversify? Solutions for employees? Separate their work and private/side gig? Learn what their contract states to keep conflicts of interest or your current/past employer from taking your cool side project/start-up idea away from you? Solutions for companies?   Additional information / pertinent Links (would you like to know more?): (contact info for people to reach out later): https://www.cisa.gov/detecting-and-identifying-insider-threats  https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/how-observability-has-changed-in-recent-years-and-whats-coming-next/  https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/insider-threat-detection-study/  https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/TechnicalReport/2016_005_001_454627.pdf (insider threat ontology) https://www.intelligentcio.com/apac/2022/08/01/survey-reveals-organizations-see-malicious-insiders-as-a-route-for-ransomware/  https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/04/08/organizations-insider-threats-issue/  https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/what-is-ueba  https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/cloud-access-security-brokers-casbs  https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mice https://qohash.com/the-high-price-of-trust-the-true-cost-of-insider-threats/  https://abc7chicago.com/classified-documents-jack-teixeira-air-national-guard-arrest/13126206/ (Air National Guardsman accused in military records leak makes 1st court appearance - story still developing as of 16 April 2023) https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354906/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-lawsuit-sentence-18-months-prison-lawsuit    Show Points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth  Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake @bryanbrake@mastodon.social Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/brakesec  Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast 

Show Topic Summary (less than 300 words) 3CX supply chain attack, Mark Russinovich and Sysinternals, ransomware notifications from CISA, and emotional intelligence Youtube VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZHiBUr-2g  Questions and potential topics (5 minimum): https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/downloading-a-cracked-version-of-fifa-23-or-hogwarts-legacy-for-free-it-s-probably-malware  https://leadershipfreak.blog/2023/03/27/the-7-powers-of-questions/  https://securityintelligence.com/articles/is-it-time-to-hide-your-work-emails/  https://www.lollydaskal.com/leadership/what-remote-leaders-do-differently-to-be-successful/  https://www.lollydaskal.com/leadership/the-role-of-emotional-intelligence-in-leadership-why-it-matters/  https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/3cx-mandiant-investigate-supply-chain-attack/646543/  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-chatgpt-payment-data-leak-caused-by-open-source-bug/  https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-pre-ransomware-notification/646041/  https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/the-life-and-times-of-sysinternals-how-one-developer-changed-the-face-of-malware-analysis/    Additional information / pertinent Links (would you like to know more?): https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/3cxdesktopapp-supply-chain-attack/  https://www.orangecyberdefense.com/global/blog/research/3cx-voip-app-supply-chain-compromise  https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-detects-and-prevents-active-intrusion-campaign-targeting-3cxdesktopapp-customers/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7047156405715300352/  Sigma Rule - https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/master/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_malware_3cx_compromise_susp_children.yml  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Sharing_and_Analysis_Center  https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-establishes-ransomware-vulnerability-warning-pilot-program  https://www.fda.gov/media/166614/download  https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-management/dp/0735684189  https://medium.com/@martin-thissen/llama-alpaca-chatgpt-on-your-local-computer-tutorial-17adda704c23    Show Points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth  Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake @bryanbrake@mastodon.social Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/brakesec Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast  Email: bds.podcast@gmail.com