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The Security Weekly 25 Index is still trying to recover. Inflation fears have tampered the recovery and the NASDAQ is outperforming the Index. Fastly replaces Sumo Logic in the Index and Thoma Bravo has not acquired anyone, so hoping the index stays stable for more than a quarter :). Here's the latest list of companies in the index: Secureworks Corp Palo Alto Networks Inc Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Splunk Inc Gen Digital Inc Fortinet Inc Akamai Technologies, Inc. F5 Inc Zscaler Inc Onespan Inc Leidos Holdings Inc Qualys Inc Verint Systems Inc. Cyberark Software Ltd Tenable Holdings Inc Darktrace PLC SentinelOne Inc Cloudflare Inc Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NetScout Systems, Inc. Varonis Systems Inc Rapid7 Inc Fastly Inc Radware Ltd A10 Networks Inc Ransomware-as-a-Service has contributed to a steady rise in sophisticated ransomware attacks. Ransomware authors are increasingly staying under the radar by launching encryption-less attacks which involve large volumes of data exfiltration. Organizations

In the Enterprise Security News, 1. Check Point buys Perimeter 81 to augment its cybersecurity 2. 2023 Layoff Tracker: SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs 3. Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating 4. ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware 5. NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices   As more organizations explore edge computing, understanding the entire ecosystem is paramount for bolstering security and resiliency, especially within a critical industry like healthcare. In this segment, Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism at AT&T Business, will provide a deep dive into the state of edge computing—specifically, how it is revolutionizing healthcare. She will discuss key findings from the “2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights™ Report: Focus on Healthcare” and provide insight into how to prepare for securing the healthcare edge ecosystem. This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecuritybh to learn mor

This week Dr. Doug talks: Elon Throttling, Dilithium, Africa, Suse, Citrix, QR Codes, AI Meetings, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-319

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

This week in the Security News, Dr. Doug talks: DEFCON, ScrutisWeb, DoubleDrive, GitHub, npms, AI Cheating advice, More news and Jason Wood Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-318

In the leadership and communications section, CISO is Crisis, Will SEC Cybersecurity Regulations Make a Difference?, NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw 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/bsw-316

A key part of modern appsec is communication. From interpersonal skills for fostering collaborations to presentation skills for delivering a message, the ability to tell a story and engage an audience is a skill that doesn't appear on top ten lists and that doesn't come up in secure coding checklists. Josh shares his path to becoming a presenter on technical topics, including stumbles he's made along the way and how he helps others develop their skills for slides. Resources: - https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs/#what-are-your-favorite-conference-talks-youve-seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPZ-NUnR-4&t=25743s&ab_channel=JSWORLDConference  Then in the news segment, DARPA unleashes an AI Cyber Challenge to find flaws, CISA asks for input on securing open source software and memory safety, what five years of vuln research shows for

Binarly is one of only a few startups focused on highlighting security issues in firmware. The company has discovered a remarkable number of vulnerabilities in firmware in a very short time. Its' founder, Alex Matrosov, joins us to discuss insights discovered along his company's journey to convince vendors that firmware is worth securing. This week in the Enterprise News, we discuss Kubernetes attacks and CPU attacks. We also have a better idea of what valuation losses might be for security startups, thanks to the Check Point/Perimeter 81 acquisition. MITRE releases, ATLAS, an ATT&CK-style framework for machine learning models. Bloodhound's new rearchitected Community Edition is out, and Las Vegas's Sphere hasn't been hacked... yet. We discuss Ian Amit's background and what led him to want to leave the CISO life to create a startup! It's one thing for a security product to report problems to a security team. Everyone has these tools, but the problem is that someone has to analyze and triage all those find

This week: Dr. Doug talks Creepy AI, Codesys, Kyber768, .net, Gootloader, DARPA, EvilProxy, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-317  

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 n

Mature shops should be looking to a security architecture process to help scale their systems and embrace security by design. We talk about what it means to create a security architecture process, why it's not just another security review, and why it requires security to dig into engineering. Segment Resources: - https://www.lacework.com/ciso-boardbook/ciso/merritt-baer Zap gets a jolt of new support, using Clang for security research, LLM attacks learn models, Rust visualizes dependencies, a National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, and more! Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-250  

This week in the Security News, Dr. Doug talks: BilDad the Shuhite, Points.com, Papercut, Prospect Medical, SMS, Microsoft, DAAS, Chatbots, More News, and Jason Wood.  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-316

On July 31st, 2023, the Biden administration released a national strategy addressing cyber workforce shortages, calling long-standing vacancies a national security imperative. The National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy focuses on four major pillars: equipping every American with cyber skills, transforming cyber education, expanding and enhancing the national cyber workforce and strengthening the federal cyber workforce. The strategy relies heavily on non-governmental and private sector entities to provide funding, internship and apprenticeship programs to increase the number of workers with cybersecurity skills. One of those entities referenced in the strategy is Dakota State University. Dr. José-Marie Griffiths joins us to discuss education's role in the strategy, but offers other insights, including: - immigration policies and how it limits the current cyber workforce, - diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and the reduction of women in the cyber workforce, and - what can the cyber communit

While malware and ransomware tend to dominate cybersecurity headlines, Fortra’s research shows that nearly 99% of email threats reaching corporate inboxes utilize impersonation rather than malware. Email impersonation is a key component of credential phishing, advance fee fraud, hybrid vishing, and business email compromise schemes. Because email impersonation scams rely on social engineering rather than technology, the barrier to entry for an aspiring cybercriminal is almost non-existent. In this segment, we’ll explore strategies for defending against email impersonation. Segment Resources: [Fortra Cybersecurity Learning Resources](https://www.fortra.com/resources/cybersecurity-education?code=cmp-0000012210&ls=717710002&utm_source=cyberrisk-alliance&utm_medium=contsynd&utm_campaign=ft-brand-awareness) [2023 BEC Trends, Targets, and Changes in Techniques](https://static.fortra.com/agari/pdfs/report/fta-ag-2023-bec-trends-targets-changes-in-techniques-rp.pdf) This segment is sponsored by Fortra

Midnight Blizzard, Citrix, Bloodhound, Five Eyes, Canon, Cult of the Dead Cow, AI Shopping, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-315

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 an

Identity isn't new, but we do have new ways of presenting and protecting identity with things like payment wallets and verifiable credentials. But we also have identity in surprising places -- like cars. We'll answer some questions like: - Why do we even have identities in cars? - What else is your car connected to? - How should devs be thinking about security in this space? In the news segment, Zenbleed in AMD, Google's TAG sees a drop in zero-days, new security testing handbook from Trail of Bits, Phil Venables' advice on public speaking, car battery monitor that monitors location(!?), more news on TETRA, Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes!  Follow us on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@AppSecWeekly  Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-249

This week in the Security News: Throbbing Gristle, China, Dragos, Ransomware, Tomcat, Ivanti, Radio Radio, My Mother the Car, Jason Wood, and More!  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-314

Some organizations are banning ChatGPT and other generative AI models out of fear of the risks they could introduce. While this is understandable, the reality is generative AI is accelerating so fast that, very soon, banning it in the workplace will be like blocking employee access to their web browser. Randy Lariar, Practice Director of Big Data, AI and Analytics at Optiv, will discuss how to embrace the new technology and shift the focus from preventing it in the workplace to adopting it safely and securely. We will discuss the challenges and benefits of generative AI, including: - How to detect AI tools and usage - How to develop policies and procedures for using AI tools - How the protect the models, data, and infrastructure to support AI tools - What are the regulatory requirements that may impact AI tools and usage - What are the benefits of using AI tools Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebo

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