Paul's Security Weekly (Video)

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

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-psw-4

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!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/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."

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-797

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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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/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/

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-796

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

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.

[120K Project](https://www.120kproject.com/en)

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

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 publically 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 robotaxi! All that and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/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.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-794

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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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-793