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Managing Bug Bounty Programs At Scale - Dr. Jared DeMott - PSW #796 Aug 24, 2023

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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!

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Defending Public Infrastructure While At War - Antranig Vartanian - PSW #795 Aug 18, 2023

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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!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-795

Incident Response Readiness - Gerard Johansen - PSW #794 Aug 10, 2023

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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!

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Incident Response Stories - Bill Swearingen - PSW #793 Aug 03, 2023

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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!

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Post-Breach: The Hardening Continues - Sean Metcalf - PSW #792 Aug 01, 2023

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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!

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Security Certification - Rohit Misuriya, Sumit Siddharth - PSW #791 Jul 20, 2023

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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/

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Getting Control Of Your Security Data Pipeline - JP Bourget - PSW #790 Jul 13, 2023

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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!!!

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Thoughts From A Security Legend - Dan Geer - PSW Vault Jul 05, 2023

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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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-3

Adversary Emulation w/ Carlos Perez - PSW #789 Jun 29, 2023

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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?

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Penetration Testing Stories w/ Emilie St-Pierre - PSW #788 Jun 22, 2023

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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!

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