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This is the first interview in a two-part AI special! First up, we talk with Daniel Miessler, who has been following the generative AI trend very closely and is one of the most prolific writers and thought leaders on the topic. It's a massively divisive topic with the most successful product ever launched (ChatGPT). Some folks think it's overhyped, some think it's going to replace all the worst parts of the worst jobs, and others think it could be the beginning of the end for humanity. While other interviews on GenAI get deep into conversations on the future of humanity, we're going to stay closer to home on this one. It seems clear that GenAI will transform the enterprise more quickly than any other technology trend we've seen. We'll discuss what security needs to do to prepare for this shift, and why security teams should begin exploring GenAI themselves as soon as possible. Generative AI is taking the world by storm. Naturally, enterprises are looking for ways to integrate the innovative technology into th

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

Ducking AI, Kimsuky redux, SMB signing, MoveIt, Gigabyte, Splunk, Chrome Extensions, AI, Jason Wood 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-302

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act introduces oversight of how companies handle the data they collect and process from U.S. citizens, including AI algorithms used to uncover insights that can be monetized. Security professionals should prepare now for the legislation by understanding how to audit algorithms and implement compliance processes. Even if this version of privacy legislation doesn’t pass, similar legislation will likely pass soon.   Segment Resources: Forbes Tech Council article: Why You Need to Prepare Now for Privacy Legislation That May Not Pass https://www.senecaglobal.com/media-mentions/ftc-why-you-need-to-prepare-now-for-privacy-legislation-that-may-not-pass/ Enterprise Security Tech - American Data Privacy Protection Act: What, Who, How https://www.enterprisesecuritytech.com/post/american-data-privacy-protection-act-what-who-how Security Info Watch - What the American Data and Privacy Act means for businesses https://www.securityinfowatch.com/security-executives/article/21295869

Walking the show floor at RSA Conference, you couldn't trip without falling into an application security vendor booth ... and API security specialists were especially plentiful. Join Forrester Principal Analyst Sandy Carielli for her thoughts on RSA Conference and a deep dive into the challenges of API security. Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/insights-from-the-2023-rsa-conference-generative-ai-quantum-and-innovation-sandbox/   OWASP has a draft for the LLM Top 10, simple vulns in a modern SaaS app, ancient vuln in a Wordpress plugin, PyPI moves to secure its package manager accounts, ThinkstScape Quarterly research report, having fun with memory variables, DNS, and logins.   Visit https://www.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-243 

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/secwee

Check out this interview from the ESW VAULT, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on October 21, 2021. The Record has published several interviews with cybercriminals, courtesy The Record's Russian-speaking analyst, Dmitry Smilyanets (https://therecord.media/author/dmitry-smilyanets). These interviews have included representatives from REvil, BlackMatter, and Marketo. The interviews have uncovered the gangs' motivations, targets, and tactics, and have been cited by officials, including White House Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. We talk with Adam Janofsky, founder and Editorial Director of The Record about what it's like to start a vendor-sponsored media outlet (The Record is funded by Recorded Future), and what they've learned by interviewing the bad guys. This segment is sponsored by Devo. Visit https://securityweekly.com/devo to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://secur

Check out this interview from the BSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on June 8, 2020.  Marc French has more than 25 years of technology experience in engineering, operations, product management, and security. Prior to his current role at CISO at Product Security Group, Marc was the SVP & Chief Trust Officer at Mimecast, Inc. and has held a variety of senior security roles at Endurance/Constant Contact, EMC/RSA, Iron Mountain, Digital Guardian, and Dun & Bradstreet.  With all this security experience, Marc has created a series of career ladders to help guide infosec professionals with their job journey, including the illustrious CISO position. We will also cover whether you really want to be a CISO...   All of the open source career ladders can be found here: https://github.com/product-security-group/Security_Ladders   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-1 

Check out this interview from the ASW VAULT, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on March 14, 2022. Cybersecurity is a large and often complex domain, traditionally focused on the infrastructure and general information security, with little or no attention to Application Security. Security providers usually tack-on AppSec services to their existing menu of offering without understanding the domain, and their team of professionals have little or no experience with software development or inner workings of modern application architectures. As the world turns Digital at a rapid pace accelerated by the recent pandemic, applications become common place in our lives, providing attackers more opportunities to exploit these poorly protected applications. As such, it is important to know what is actually required to build and run software securely, and how to do application security right. Segment Resources: https://forwardsecurity.com/2022/03/07/application-security-for-busy-tec

Ferret Legging, Elon's Brain Implants, Volt Typhoon, CosmicEnergy, OAuth, ILoveYou (and that's not just the Molly talking), Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode 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/swn301 

On this edition of the ESW news, we're all over the place! Funding and acquisitions are a little sad right now, but AI and TikTok bans raise our spirits. The hosts are split on feelings about the new .zip gTLD, there's a new standard for scoring an "AI Influence Level" (AIL), and lessons learned from Joe Sullivan's case and other Uber breaches. Also, don't miss the new AI tool DragGAN, which enables near magical levels of ease when manipulating photos.   What's even real anymore? We might not be able to tell for long... The reality is no organization is insusceptible to a breach – and security teams, alongside the C-suite, should prepare now to make the response more seamless once a crisis does happen. Based on his experience working 1:1 with security leaders in the private and public sectors, Jon Check, executive director of Cyber Protection Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, will share the critical steps organizations must take to best prepare for a security breach. This segment is sponsored by

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 episode

Space, the final frontier, Naughty Cell Phones, HP, ASUS, Meta, Google, Gil Kirkpatrick, and more on this edition of the Security Weekly News.   Segment Resources:  https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/microsoft-azure-vms-highjacked-in-cloud-cyberattack   This segment is sponsored by Semperis. Visit https://securityweekly.com/semperis to learn more about them!   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/swn300

The OWASP Top 10 dates back to 2003, when appsec was just settling on terms like cross-site scripting and SQL injection. It's a list that everyone knows about and everyone talks about. But is it still the right model for modern appsec awareness? What if we put that attention and effort elsewhere? Maybe we could have secure defaults instead. Or linters and build tools that point out these flaws. We'll talk about top 10 lists, what we like about them, what we don't like, and what we'd like to see replace them. We'll also test our hosts' knowledge of just how many top 10 lists are out there.   Segment resources: [OWASP Top 10:2021](https://owasp.org/Top10/)  [OWASP API Security Project](https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/) [OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks](https://github.com/OWASP/www-project-mobile-top-10/blob/master/2016-risks/index.md) [OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-ci-cd-security-risks/) and [ASW #220](https://www.scmagazine.com/podcast-episode/asw-220-daniel-kriv

You can rebuild infrastructure. But you can’t un-breach data – Data sits at the core of an organization and is often the most open and vulnerable. This is why data security is the most important and urgent security problem to solve right now. We’re joined by Matt Radolec, Senior Director of Incident Response and Cloud Operations at Varonis, to walk through the blast radius concept – from what it is and how to use it to understand your organization's risk, to how it can serve as a guide to securing data from insiders and external attackers.   Segment Resources: The Great SaaS Data Risk Exposure report: https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Files/docs/research_reports/Varonis-The-Great-SaaS-Data-Exposure.pdf The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023 https://reprints2.forrester.com/#/assets/2/1646/RES178465/report Learn more about the Varonis Data Security Platform https://www.varonis.com/products/data-security-platform   This segment is sponsored by Varonis. Visit https://securityweekly.com/varonis to lea

$10M reward, a serious wemo vulnerability, EXSI threats, critical Cisco flaws, millions of smart phones with preinstalled malware and Bill Brenner   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/swn299 

This week, we discuss fundings, acquisitions (TWO DSPM exits!), the ongoing market downturn/weirdness, and surprise - LLM-based AIs! We spend a fair amount of time talking about the importance of breach transparency - we need to be able to learn from others' failures to improve our own defenses. We also discuss the inevitable 'One App To Rule them All' that will serve as an all-knowing personal assistant. It will integrate with all our comms, calendars, and notes, which will be scary and fraught with privacy and security issues. But Tyler and Adrian still yearn for it, as their pre-frontal cortexes become increasingly dulled by scotch and beer.   Enterprises are struggling to manage and reduce their organizational attack surface, especially with a shortage of skilled staff. Find out how some security executives are tackling this challenge by automating their IT and vulnerability management. This segment is sponsored by Syxsense. Visit https://securityweekly.com/syxsensersac to learn more about them!   Cars ha

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 

This week in the Security News, Aaran Leyland joins remotely to dish out the latest news: Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill, a powerful backdoor, Malicious Actors and Jason Wood - Valued Co-Host OR Malicious Actor? All that and more on this episode of SWN!   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/swn298 

What happens to an app's security after six months? What about a year or two years? A Secure SDLC needs to maintain security throughout an app's lifetime, but too often the rate of new flaws can outpace the rate of new code within an app. Appsec teams need strategies and processes to keep software secure for as long as possible. Segment Resources: https://www.veracode.com/state-of-software-security-report   Learn how hackers are exploiting the trust that mobile app owners place in their customers. Hackers are increasingly modifying app code, posing as trusted customers, and infiltrating IT infrastructure. This segment is sponsored by Verimatrix. Visit https://securityweekly.com/verimatrixrsac to learn more about them!   Unlike vulnerabilities, which can and do often exist for months or years in application code without being exploited, a malicious package represents an immediate threat to an organization, intentionally designed to do harm. In the war for cybersecurity, attackers are innovating faster than com