Paul's Security Weekly (Audio)

Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations. ˇHe is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster. Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities. Chris is also the author of the Baby Harvest, a book based on criminals and terrorists using virtual babies and fake deaths for financing. He has also been invited to speak at TED global. In the Security News: Fried squid is tasty, but the squid proxy is vulnerable, Flipper zero and other tools can now BLE Spam more than just Apple devices, Cisco IOS vulnerability in the web interface, again, is Signal vulnerable?, WinRAR being exploit, still, Math.Random is not really all that random, get your malware samples, and my inside look into Android TV devices, malware, and the horrors of the supply chain! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-803

In our first segment: the PSW hosts drop valuable insight on how to start your own journey into reverse engineering hardware! Resources we mentioned: The Hardware Hackers Handbook is a great start Do a badge challenge: https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/an-introduction-to-hardware-hacking Take some classes Do some Arduino stuff: https://www.arduino.cc/ Take free courses on electrical engineering: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-01sc-introduction-to-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-i-spring-2011/ (And here: https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQf3iuluYo&list=PLoFdAHrZtKkhcd9k8ZcR4th8Q8PNOx7iU) Building a lab - The list: Soldering iron (and tools and parts such as Solder, Flux, Tweezer, Soldering wick, Cutter, Wire stripper) Hot air rework station (can be bundled with soldering iron) Multi-meter (and lots of associated cables) Jumper and pinout wires Breadboard USB microscope Bench power supply Specific lighting (e.g. my document camera has an LED light that works great) Magnification - magnifying lenses and a headset (esp. if you are old, like us) USB serial devices (or Bus Pirate if you fancy) Then, in the Security News: Windows 11 tries to fix legacy authentication, Rapid resets and the world’s largest DDoS attack, we finally get to see the cURL vulnerability, and its pretty ugly, turns out Android TV boxes with pre-installed malware are a hot topic, patch your Netscaler, root for everyone with emergency responder software, learn THIS hacking Tools First, long live Wayland, how to actually hack a WiFi device with a Flipper Zero, scanning open source packages, GNOME bugs and a bonus, security is a great idea until there is a bypass in apparmor,a tool that everyone should have in their kit, and we could talk for hours about 25 hard hitting lessons from Cybersecurity! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-802

Anuj joins us to discuss recent trends in malware. What are the malware authors up to lately? What are the latest techniques for reverse engineering malware? Learn about the latest tools and techniques from Anuj! Anuj is a Principal Threat Researcher at Blackberry, where he performs malware research and reverse engineering. He has more than 15 years of experience in malware analysis and incident response. Anuj also brings his problem-solving abilities to his position as a SANS Certified Instructor and author, which gives him the opportunity to impart his deep technical knowledge and practical skills to students. Segment Resources: https://www.youtube.com/@sonianuj In the Security News: No Flipper Zero for you!, your glibc is hanging out and other Looney Tunables, and it vulnerable, for no reasons, other than the obvious ones, a Russian firm will pay $20m for Android or iPhone 0days, you do what you do and other Exim vulnerability stories, yet another way to become root on Linux, if you ever wanted to read the source code for Sub7, well, now you can, more people want to trash bug bounties (and they are wrong), Curl has something coming, and its not good, tricking AI with your dead grandma’s locket, GPU driver vulnerabilities could lead to something, and the path to the cloud is filled with holes. All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-801

This week, First up its the Security News: libwebp or die: we unravel some of the details behind the webp vulnerability first fixed by Apple and Google, then, hopefully by everyone else, attackers can steal your pixels using your GPU, someone cough China cough has been hacking Cisco routers, Kia boys are still a problem, How the Cult of the Dead Cow plans to save the internet, how iOS updates could break glucose monitors, spamming the CVE database, and when a medium is really a high! Just what are the right skills to have or acquire to work in cybersecurity today? Kayla and the Security Weekly crew talk about it in this segment. We also touch on why we get burnt out and how to avoid it, all in anticipation for SOC Analyst Appreciation Day! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-800

Nathan comes on the show to discuss LLMs, such as ChatGPT, the issues we face today and in the future. Learn about prompt injection attacks, jailbreaking, LLMs for threat actors, and more! In the Security News: LVFS is not a backdoor, attackers are in physical proximity, when you need to re-cast risk, oh Fortinet, pre-installed backdoors again, deep down the rabbit hole, the buffer overflow is in your BIOS!, what is 345gs5662d34?, a cone is all you need, we are compliant because we said so but we lied, 10 years of updates, Microsoft looks at ncurses and finds bad things, they also lost 38TB of data (Microsoft that is), when MFA isn’t really MFA, China and Russia are cyber attacking things, and MGM and Caesars are in hot water, All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-799

Ryan has his finger on the pulse of ransomware and response. We discuss how the initial infections are occurring, how they've changed over time, and where they are going in the future! Segment Resources: For folks to see my recent presentations: for528.com/playlist For folks to see the recordings of our recent Ransomware Summit: https://for528.com/summit23 For folks to watch my recent (free) ransomware workshop: https://for528.com/workshop23  Materials: https://for528.com/workshop Lots in the Security News this week. Stay tuned! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-798

Check out this interview from the PSW Vault, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on February 4, 2013. Dr. Spafford is one of the senior, most recognized leaders in the field of computing. He has an on-going record of accomplishment as a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, cybercrime and computing policy to a number of major companies, law enforcement organizations, academic and government agencies... [With] over three decades of experience as a researcher and instructor, Professor Spafford has worked in software engineering, reliable distributed computing, host and network security, digital forensics, computing policy, and computing curriculum design. Dr. Spafford is a professor with an appointment in Computer Science at Purdue University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1987. Spaf's new book, Cybersecurity Myths and Misperceptions, is available at https://informit.com/cybermyths  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-4 

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." 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!  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-797

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/  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! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-796

The 2020 Armenian war with Azerbaijan called into action over 100 volunteer incident responders from across the country (and the globe) into action. Our guest for this segment was one of the leads during the 40-day conflict and helped organize teams that responded to everything from websites being attacked and country-wide Internet outages. In the Security News: You should read the NIST CSF, JTAG hacking the original Xbox, tricked into sharing your password, attacking power management software, the vulnerability is in the SDK, tearing apart printers to find vulnerabilities, a pain in the NAS, urllib.parse is vulnerable, hacking the subway, again, how not to implement encryption from OSDP, Intel does a good job with security, and hacking card shuffling machines! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-795