Paul's Security Weekly (Audio)

Paul Asadoorian

For the latest in computer security news, hacking, and research! We sit around, drink beer, and talk security. Our show will feature technical segments that show you how to use the latest tools and techniques. Special guests appear on the show to enlighten us and change your perspective on information security. Note: This is only Paul's Security Weekly, a 2-hour show recorded once per week.

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Nov 16, 2023 · 2 hr 50 min
3 Layers of App Security to Keep Hackers Out, Let Customers In - Aviad Mizrachi - 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. Segment description coming soon! 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 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-807
Nov 9, 2023 · 2 hr 57 min
Testing AI Before It Comes To Get You - Austin Carson - PSW #806
Austin spends the majority of his time thinking about ways to abuse LLMs, the impact of the attacks, and the effects on society. He brings a truly unique perspective to the way to use, attack, and verify output from AI LLM models. Whether you are just learning the ins and outs of LLMs or you were an early adopter, this segment is for you! In the security news: do people still use mainframes? IoT and firmware security, Apple Find my-, Bluetooth is the gift that keeps on giving, to hackers that is, and more! 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-806
Nov 2, 2023 · 3 hr 6 min
Trustworthy AI for National Security - Kathleen Fisher - PSW #805
AI/ML is providing significant benefits in a wide range of application domains but also provides adversaries with a new attack surface. Learn about DARPA's efforts to help evaluate AI/ML and work towards a trust model that will allow us to use these valuable tools safely. Segment Resources: Identifying and Mitigating the Security Risks of Generative AI paper (co-authored by Kathleen): https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14840 DARPA's AI Forward, which will include AI Exploration opportunities and resource material: https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/ai-forward I2O webpage, important to include because this hosts links to many of the programs Dr. Fisher will discuss: https://www.darpa.mil/i2o In the Security News: If an exploit falls in the forest do I still need to patch?, Reflections on trusting trust: the source code revealed, prompt injection in your resume, iPhones be updating, a deep dive into vulnerable kernel drivers and wiping SPI flash, cheap to exploit software, to ransom or steal?, oh OAuth, Florida man, door bell shenanigans, don't pay the ransom, the White House and AI, and quantum teleportation via measurement-induced entanglement. 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-805
Oct 26, 2023 · 2 hr 57 min
VSCode Vulnerabilities - Thomas Chauchefoin, Paul Gerste - PSW #804
For the Security News, we officially welcome Bill Swearingen to our expert panel of PSW hosts, and discuss the news including hacking shenanigans, QNAP, recovering crypto currency, Android malware, and more! Then in a pre-recorded segment: Sonar Vulnerability Researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste conducted research on the security of Visual Studio Code — the most popular code editor out there — which was presented at DEF CON 31 in August. The pair uncovered a few ways for attackers to gain code execution on a victim's computer if they clicked on a specially crafted link or opened a malicious folder in Visual Studio Code, bypassing existing mitigations like Workspace Trust. Developers tend to trust their IDEs and do not expect such security issues to exist. As developers have access to source code and production systems, they make for very interesting targets for threat actors. Important to note is that the security concepts that the two are able to demonstrate apply not just to Visual Studio Code, but to most other code editors. This is also the story of how the researchers got an unexpected $30,000 bounty from Microsoft for these bugs, by mistake! Segment Resources: BLOG POSTS Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code (https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-argument-injection-in-vscode/) Securing Developer Tools: Git Integrations (https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-git-integrations/) CVEs CVE-2023-36742 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36742) CVE-2022-30129 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2022-30129) CVE-2021-43891 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2021-43891) 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-804
Oct 20, 2023 · 2 hr 47 min
Meet the Cyber Mercenary Who Can Overthrow a Government - Chris Rock - PSW #803
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
Oct 12, 2023 · 3 hr 9 min
Getting Started With Reverse Engineering Hardware - PSW #802
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
Oct 5, 2023 · 2 hr 57 min
Malware Trends - Anuj Soni - PSW #801
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
Sep 28, 2023 · 2 hr 50 min
The Right Skills For The Job - Kayla Williams - PSW #800
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
Sep 21, 2023 · 3 hr 15 min
AI Attacks and LLM Security Matters - Nathan Hamiel - PSW #799
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
Sep 14, 2023 · 3 hr 6 min
Ransomware Infection Vectors - Ryan Chapman - PSW #798
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
Sep 6, 2023 · 56 min
Interview with Dr. Gene Spafford - Eugene Spafford - PSW Vault
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
Aug 31, 2023 · 3 hr 23 min
Incident Response: Clouds, SMBs, & More! - Amanda Berlin - 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." 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
Aug 24, 2023 · 3 hr 23 min
Managing Bug Bounty Programs At Scale - Dr. Jared DeMott - 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/ 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
Aug 18, 2023 · 3 hr 30 min
Defending Public Infrastructure While At War - Antranig Vartanian - PSW #795
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
Aug 10, 2023 · 3 hr 27 min
Incident Response Readiness - Gerard Johansen - PSW #794
Just how prepared are you for the next cybersecurity incident? Depending on the definition, security incidents likely happen daily at most enterprises. Because we can't prevent everything, the key to success is to be in a constant state of readiness. This means regular training with a focus on preparation. Gerard will walk us through tips and tricks to keep our incident response teams in tip-top condition. In the Security News: Hacking your Tesla to enable heated seats (and so much more), The Downfall of Intel CPUs, The Inception of AMD CPUs, that's right we're talking about 3 different hardware attacks in this episode! Intel issues patches and fixes stuff even though its hard to exploit, Rubber Ducky you're the one, history of Wii hacking, don't try this at home Linux updates, we are no longer calling about your vehicle warranty, cool hardware hacking stuff including building your own lightsaber, you Wifi keys are leaking again, the evil FlipperZero, Buskill, complaining publicly works sometimes, these are not the CVSS 10.0 flaws you are looking for, when side channel attacks, dumpster diving for plane ticks, and go ahead, try and hack a robo-taxi! 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 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-794
Aug 3, 2023 · 3 hr 13 min
Incident Response Stories - Bill Swearingen - PSW #793
Our good friend Bill Swearingen joins us to talk about some of the incident response work he's been doing lately. Many people have it wrong, you don't need to be a cybersecurity ninja to respond to a security incident. Its about knowing who does what in your organization and executing a plan. Bill has put together a a set of free resources to help the community with incident response as well! Vistit the Awesome Incident Response project here: https://github.com/hevnsnt/Awesome_Incident_Response/ In the Security News: Canon shoots out your Wifi password, I want to be Super Admin, you don't need fancy hacks to bypass air gaps, U.S. Senator attacks Microsoft, Tenable CEO attacks Microsoft, we should all be hopeful despite the challenges in infosec, SEC requires reporting Cyberattacks within 4 days, Mirai attacks Tomcat, scanning a car before stealing it, a little offensive appliance, no Internet access for you and that will solve the problem, Ubuntu blunders, it's so secure no one can actually use it, and yet another CPU data leak! 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-793
Aug 1, 2023 · 3 hr 48 min
Post-Breach: The Hardening Continues - Sean Metcalf - PSW #792
Once an incident has occurred and you've responded, then what? Join us for a chat with Sean Metcalf on what we can do to ensure our infrastructure remains resilient after a security incident. Segment description coming soon! 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-792
Jul 20, 2023 · 3 hr 17 min
Security Certification - Rohit Misuriya, Sumit Siddharth - PSW #791
This week, up first is the Security News: Microsoft lost its keys, LOL drivers, If you were the CSO, try to keep employees happy but remove their accounts when they leave, gaming device finds a missing child, $3 brute forcing, undocumented instructions are sometimes the best instructions, remote code on your Oscilloscope, fuzzing satellites, routers are great places to hide, typos lead to information leaks of US military emails, pwning yourself, pwning security researchers, getting pwned by a movie, and WormGPT! Sumit comes on the show to teach us a little about PHP type-juggling, introduce a free online security lab, and discuss the new certifications being offered in collaboration with Blackhat. Segment Resources: Our SecOps exams: https://secops.group/cyber-security-certifications/ Black Hat's Certified Pentester exam: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/certified-pentester.html Vulnmachines platform: https://www.vulnmachines.com/ 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-791
Jul 13, 2023 · 2 hr 45 min
Getting Control Of Your Security Data Pipeline - JP Bourget - PSW #790
Getting the correct data in the right place for incident response is challenging. JP comes on the show to talk about how he is helping companies with these challenges, getting control of the security data pipeline while helping save costs! In the security news: Someone is going to get hurt, slow migrations, hiding on the Internet is hard, more Fortinet vulnerabilities, BLackLotus source code, the difficulties with roots of trust, stealthy rootkits, patching made easy?, rowhammer and gaslighting, signing with time machines, memory is complicated, and it's alive!!! It's alive!!! 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 for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-790
Jul 5, 2023 · 39 min
Thoughts From A Security Legend - Dan Geer - PSW Vault
Welcome to another edition of a Paul's Security Weekly Vault episode! This episode was previously recorded on April 5, 2012 and features an interview with none other than Dan Geer. Unfortunately there is no video for this episode, but the content is still relevant today. Dan Geer is a renowned cybersecurity expert and visionary. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field, Dan has made significant contributions to our understanding of information security and its implications. In this interview, we'll explore his background, education, and delve into some of his most influential works, such as his paper on the security implications of mono-culture. My co-hosts for this interview included Jack Daniel and John Strand. At the very end of the interview we talk about Dan giving the keynote at the Source Boston 2012 event. I've included a link to the video of that talk in the show notes for historical reference. ChatGPT summarized this keynote as follows stating: "Dan Geer discusses the claim that the internet is critical infrastructure and explores the potential hypocrisy involved in this assertion." So, without further ado, enjoy our interview with Dan Geer! Link to Dan Geer's 2012 Source Boston Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb8r0XoNd60 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-3