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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Jun 29, 2023 · 2 hr 51 min
Adversary Emulation w/ Carlos Perez - PSW #789
In this segment we welcome Carlos Perez back to the show! Carlos will discuss the different types of penetration testing, including adversary emulation, and a cool method we can use to cover our tracks on Windows systems. In the security news: You got so many CVEs you need your own, dedicated, vulnerability scanner, melting your neighbors with hacking, The FDA's SBOM and OSS, when the vulnerability scanner has a vulnerability, violating CISA directives at scale, make 2FA a little easier with this device, NSA's BlackLotus mitigation guide: who needs those certificates anyhow? 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-789
Jun 22, 2023 · 3 hr 16 min
Penetration Testing Stories w/ Emilie St-Pierre - PSW #788
Emilie comes on the show to talk about penetration testing and share her knowledge and stories! In the Security News: There is no national cyber director, time to move away from MoveIT, update Microsoft IIS at least every 6 years, your security system is not secure, for that matter neither is your smart pet feeder, identity management is hard, at least for some, spies using spy gadgets to spy on spies, go ahead and just replace your hardware, secure boot is hard, bypassing the BIOS password (but don't try this at home, or work for that matter), Rob shaved his beard, what's new in PCI (drink, are we still drinking on PCI? If so, drink again), if your firmware isn't patched, no cloud updates for you, and Gigabyte has a backdoor! 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-788
Jun 14, 2023 · 47 min
Interview with Bill Cheswick - PSW VAULT
Check out this interview from the PSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on April 9, 2013. Bill Cheswick logged into his first computer in 1968. Seven years later, he was graduated from Lehigh University in 1975 with a degree resembling Computer Science. Ches has worked on (and against) operating system security for over 35 years. He is probably best known for "Firewalls and Internet Security; Repelling the Wily Hacker", co-authored with Steve Bellovin, which help train the first generation of Internet security experts. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-2
Jun 7, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min
L0pht Heavy Industries Panel - PSW Vault
Check out this interview from the PSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Paul Asadoorian! This segment was originally published on October 18, 2015. L0pht Heavy Industries was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area. We learn about the history of the L0pht and the future. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-1
Jun 2, 2023 · 3 hr 13 min
Crazy Chronicles: Hilarious Penetration Tester Stories & Unbelievable Security News - PSW #787
Penetration Tester stories, dumb and funny stuff that's crazier than movies. Segment Resources: https://www.cyberpointllc.com/index.php https://www.cyberpointllc.com/srt.php In the security news: keystroke logs are stored in plain-text (and other atrocities in software used in schools), WPBT is the gift that keeps on giving and this time it's Gigabyte, PCI DSS 4.0 (drink!), immutable linux desktops, one packet exploits, neat linux malware, sock puppets, a must read new book about hacks, why SMB why?, boot girls, exposing customers....data, cracking GSM, you MUST use 2fa (not should, must), old wine in a new bottle, lab grown "meat", malicious bookmarks, and ChatGPT's secret reading list! All that and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly. 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly
May 25, 2023 · 3 hr 7 min
Generative AI Security Implications - Liam Mayron - PSW #786
Liam Mayron from Fastly comes on the show to talk about his unique path into information security, the security implications of generative AI, advances in technologies to protect web applications, detecting bots, and enabling better MSP services! This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly to learn more about them! In the Security News: a cross-platform, post-exploit, red teaming framework, cover your backups, your voice should never be your passport, time to change your fingerprints, a drop in the bucket sucka, Thor will take out those pesky drones, never give your AI friends money, bye-bye PyPi for a while anyhow, bug bounties are broken, you say you want people to update routers, not-too-safe-boot, mystery microcode, Cisco listens to the podcast (they must have heard it from Microsoft), will it run DOOM?, your server is bricked, permentantly, Hell never ends on x86, and coldplay lyrics in your firmware. 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw786
May 18, 2023 · 2 hr 57 min
PSW #785 - Kevin Johnson
Kevin Johnson joins us to discuss pen testing, automated testing, why AI testing is not pen testing! In the security news: How AI Knows Things No One Told It, Dragos Employee Gets Hacked, VMProtect Source Code Leaks, CISA Vulnerabilities, SHA-1 is a Shambles, Microsoft Scans Inside Password Protected Files, Geacon Brings Cobalt Strike Compatability to MacOS, Google Launches Tools to Identify Misleading & AI Images, Cyberstalkers Use New Windows Feature to Spy on iPhones, Texas A&M Prof Flunks all his Students, Wemo Won't Fix Smart Plug Vulnerability, Catfishing on an industrial scale, and Hacking the Ocean to store Carbon Dioxide 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw785
May 11, 2023 · 2 hr 57 min
PSW #784 - Paula Januszkiewicz
In this talk, Paula Januszkiewicz, renowned cybersecurity expert with years of experience in the field, shares her insights on critical tasks that must be included in any successful penetration testing checklist. She will offer the listeners a sneak peek into her pentesting trick book, discuss the special tools she is using, and highlight the importance of diversifying your pentester's toolkit. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in mastering the art of penetration testing. In the security news: feel free to cry a bit, honeytokens are the shiny new hotness, it's fixed in the future, backdooring electron, should we move to passkeys, the turbo button, why Cisco hates SMBs, old vulnerabilities are new again, MSI, Boot Guard and some FUD, fake tickets, AI hacking, prompt injection, and the SBOM Bombshell! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw784
May 4, 2023 · 2 hr 47 min
PSW #783 - Rob Fuller
Rob "Mubix" Fuller comes on the show to talk about penetration testing, what's changed over the years? He'll also discuss "Jurassic Malware" and creating games in your BIOS. This week in the Security News: 5-year old vulnerabilities, hijacking packages, EV charging apps that could steal stuff, do we even need software packages, selling hacking tools and ethics, I hate it when vendors fix stuff, HTTPS lock status, no pornhub for you! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw783
Apr 27, 2023 · 2 hr 55 min
PSW #782 - Kaitlyn Handelman
STM32 boards, soldering, decapping chips, RTOS development, lasers, multiple flippers and for what you ask? So I can be alerted about a device I already know is there. The Flipper Zero attracted the attention of news outlets and hackers alike as people have used it to gain access to restricted resources. Is the Flipper Zero that powerful that it needs to be banned? This is a journey of recursion and not taking "no" for an answer. Kailtyn Hendelman joins the PSW crew to discuss the Flipper Zero and using it to hack all the things. In the Security News: SSDs use AI/ML to prevent ransomware (And more buzzword bingo), zombie servers that just won't die, spectral chickens, side-channel attacks, malware-free cyberattacks!, your secret key should be a secret, hacking smart TVs with IR, getting papercuts, people still have AIX, ghosttokens, build back better SBOMs, Salsa for your software, Intel let Google hack things, and they found vulnerabilities, and flase positives on your drug test, & more! Flipper resources: * [Changing Boot Screen Image on ThinkPad's UEFI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvqZRTMAlMA -Flipper Zero) * [A collection of Awesome resources for the Flipper Zero device.](https://github.com/djsime1/awesome-flipperzero) * [Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware](https://github.com/DarkFlippers/unleashed-firmware) - This is what Paul is using currently. * [A maintained collective of different IR files for the Flipper!](https://github.com/UberGuidoZ/Flipper-IRDB) - Paul uses these as well. * [Alternative Infrared Remote for Flipperzero](https://github.com/Hong5489/ir_remote) 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! 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/psw782
Apr 20, 2023 · 2 hr 59 min
PSW #781 - Ivan Arce
We will talk about Supply chain security, the TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities recently discovered by a Quarkslab researcher, bugs in reference implementations, vulnerability disclosure and perhaps various other topics. Segment Resources: Vulnerabilities in the TPM2.0 reference implementation https://blog.quarkslab.com/vulnerabilities-in-the-tpm-20-reference-implementation-code.html Vulnerabilities in High Assurance Boot of NXP i.MX microprocessors https://blog.quarkslab.com/vulnerabilities-in-high-assurance-boot-of-nxp-imx-microprocessors.html Heap memory corruption in ASN.1 parsing code generated by Objective Systems Inc. ASN1C compiler for C/C++ https://github.com/programa-stic/security-advisories/blob/master/ObjSys/CVE-2016-5080/README.md In the security news: Blizzards, Sleet, Typhoons, Sandstorms and Tsunamis, masking your car stealing tech in a Nokia phone, kill -64, Google doesn't want to fix an RCE, hijacking packages, monitoring macs, beating Roulette, lame advice from Microsoft, are post-authentication vulnerabilities even vulnerabilities?, Ghosts, burpgpt, and do you trust Google? All that and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly. 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw781
Apr 13, 2023 · 2 hr 37 min
PSW #780 - Billy Boatright
Imagine an illness that requires surgery a few times a month and restricts your mobility. What would that do to your career? In our chat with Billy Boatright today, we'll find out how he not only switched careers despite his illness, he found an advantage in his weaknesses: he turned them into effective social engineering skills. In the security news, FBI seizes one of the biggest stolen credential markets, Is catching ransomware the baseline for detection and response? Potential outcomes of the US National Cybersecurity Strategy, Thieves are using headlights to steal cars, China wants to censor generative AI, Tesla sued for snooping on owners through built-in cameras, All that and more, on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly. 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw780
Apr 7, 2023 · 3 hr 9 min
PSW #779 - Sin Ming Loo
The approach of cybersecurity workforce development and how someone with such technical background come to designing a degree program with non-traditional approach. What it takes to keep it going? Segment Resources: https://go.boisestate.edu/ucore https://go.boisestate.edu/gcore In the Security News: Rorschach, QNAP and sudo, why bother signing things, why bother having a password, why bother updating firmware, smart screenshotting, TP-Link oh my, music with Grub2, byte arrays and UTF-8, what is my wifi password, Debian and systemd, opening garage doors, downgrade your firmware to be more secure, exploit databases, this is like a movie, unsolved CTFs, and Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojans! All that and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw779
Mar 30, 2023 · 2 hr 56 min
PSW #778 - Philippe Laulheret
How to get into reversing embedded firmware? Can the planet really be hacked? We'll go over a couple of fun exploitation examples, see what mistakes were made and maybe what could have been done better to make these devices tougher to break into. Segment Resources: Voip phone hacking: Blog: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/avaya-deskphone-decade-old-vulnerability-found-in-phones-firmware/ Def Con presentation (intro to hardware hacking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuCbr2588-w&ab_channel=DEFCONConference Medical Research: BBraun infusion pump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agtnfPjd64&ab_channel=hardwear.io Medical devices under attack: https://www.rsaconference.com/USA/agenda/session/Code%20Blue%20Medical%20Devices%20Under%20Attack Hacking DrayTek routers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8HfjdDeuM&ab_channel=Hexacon Philippe's public work: https://github.com/philippelaulheret/talks_blogs_and_fun In the Security News: Turning traffic lights green with the flipperzero (and a bunch of other hardware), suspending AV and EDR, Test signing mode, Linux control freaks, hacking the Apple Studio Disaply, Intel;s attack surface reduction claim, the truth about TikTok that everyone is missing, just stop developing AI, but only for 6 months, anyone can connect to Amazon's wireless network, revoking the wrong things, losing your keys, the funny, not-so-funny things about firmware encryption, and exploding thumb drives. All that, and more, on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw778
Mar 23, 2023 · 3 hr 15 min
PSW #777 - Nico Waisman
We sit down with Nico Waisman to discuss vulnerability research and other security-related topics! In the Security News: Windows MSI tomfoolery, curl turns 8...point owe, who doesn't need a 7" laptop, glitching the ESP, your image really isn't redacted or cropped, brute forcing pins, SSRF and Lightsail, reversing D-Link firmware for the win, ICMP RCE OMG (but not really), update your Pixel and Samsung, hacking ATMs in 2023, breaking down Fortinet vulnerabilities, Jamming with an Arduino, it 315 Mega hurts, analyzing trojans in your chips, and the 4, er 1, er 3, okay well how to suck at math and the 4 Cs of Cybersecurity! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw777
Mar 16, 2023 · 2 hr 50 min
PSW #776 - Santiago Torres Arias
Software supply chain attacks, those in which hackers target the "water supply" of software are on the rise. This makes software developers everywhere valid targets. We will discuss the developer perspective on software supply chain attacks. Segment Resources: https://in-toto.io https://sigstore.dev In the security news: AI on your PI, no flipper for you, stealing Tesla's by accident, firmware at scale, the future of the Linux desktop, protect your attributes, SOCKS5 for your Burp, TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities, the world's most vulnerable door device and hiding from "Real" hackers, sandwiches, robot lawyers, poisonis epipens, and profanity in your code! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw776
Mar 9, 2023 · 3 hr
PSW #775 - Ask Our PSW Hosts Anything!
Tune in to ask our PSW hosts anything you want to know! Join the live discussion in our Discord server to ask a question. Visit securityweekly.com/discord for an invite! Larry Pesce, Jeff Man, Tyler Robinson, and more will be answering your questions, including: What is your advice on avoiding burnout? If each of the hosts had to be a distribution of Linux, which one would each of them be? Which host is the worst influence? Why is security so hard? Will any of you be at RSAC this year and where can we come see you? What current projects are you working on? In the Security News: Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer, Top 10 open source software risks, Dumb password rules, Grand Theft Auto, The false promise of ChatGPT, The "Hidden Button", How a single engineer brought down twitter, Microsoft's aim to reduce "Tedious" business tasks with new AI tools, The internet is about to get a lot safer, All that, and more! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw775
Mar 2, 2023 · 2 hr 55 min
PSW #774 - Asaf Cidon
Barracuda published its 2023 Email Security Trends report that shows how email-based security attacks affect organizations around the world. 75% of the organizations surveyed for the report had fallen victim to at least one successful email attack in the last 12 months, with those affected facing average costs of more than $1 million for their most expensive attack. 23% said that the cost of email-based attacks has risen dramatically over the last year. Segment Resources: https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/2023-email-security-trends.pdf This segment is sponsored by Barracuda. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them! In the Security News for this week: indistinguishable classifiers, screenshot the /etc/passwd file, what the Zimbra, couple of cool Burp plugins, my voice is my passport. verify me, software is harder to exploit, unless its in firmware, when ChatGPT writes an article, becoming a trusted installer, not the last breach for lastpass, getting fried at the charger, and why hackers love stickers! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw774
Feb 23, 2023 · 57 min
Throwback Episode - PSW #480
It's another holiday week, so enjoy this interview from the PSW archives! We chat with Marcus J. Ranum of Tenable, pit ODROID against Raspberry Pi, and introduce you to USBee in our security news. All that and more, so stay tuned!
Feb 16, 2023 · 3 hr 7 min
PSW #773 - Ron Woerner
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/ In the Security News: If it can run Linux, it should, TikTok thefts, significant vulnerability findings, and I'm not even joking, typo squatting is lame, what will it take Bruce!, stealing from the TPM, GoAnywhere, including root, what if attackers targeted your yacht?, two for the price of one (exploits), X is really old, and vulnerable, come for a ride on a CHERI-OT and be memory safe, codebreaking old letters, and vulnerable wienermobiles! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! 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! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw773