We've updated our script with all sorts of new features. The latest version uses the TOML configuration file format to store the vendor information and the credentials to test with. We'll focus on how to implement that as it's handy for all sorts of projects. We'll also cover some of the other updates, including testing protocols on different ports and better reporting.

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This week in the Security News we talk: Its still not illegal to look at HTML source code, Nobelium strikes again, npm infections, gas is cheap in Iran, if you can get it, Google Tensor, going beyond the transport layer with HTTPS, buying a power plan, EBCDIC and GDPR, how children can infect parents, signing your rootkit, dates are hard, something smells funny and bird poop in your antenna, & more!

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You may have seen the term "Incident Commander" in discussions about incident response, but do you know where that term came from and what it means? How can professionalizing your incident response using proven disaster management methodology up your game? Matt Linton is an experienced Emergency Responder and USA Region lead of Google's Security Response team. For the past decade he's been working on bringing the lessons learned from physical disaster management into the digital forensics and incident response realm.

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A good backup is not prevention. Its recovery. Roger A. Grimes, author of the just released Ransomware Protection Playbook (Wiley), and author of 12 other books and over 1100 articles on computer security is going to discuss how sophisticated ransomware is today, how it usually breaks in, what it does, and what every person and organization should be doing to stop it. Hint, it doesn’t involve firewalls, antivirus software, or any other super special software supposedly designed to stop every attack. Come get the straight dope in what you and your company should be doing to prevent ransomware from getting a foothold into your environment…from the guy that wrote the book on it.

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This week in the Security News: More security advice for non-profits, faster 0-day exploits, ban all the things, you are still phishable, how to treat security researchers, what the heck is cyber hygiene?, Gummy browsers, the Internet is safe now, a particular kind of crack is open-source, sysmon: Now for Linux, Windows 11 and lies, and cocaine Hippos!

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We've been working on this Python project that will use the Nmap Python library to scan the local network, enumerate select systems and devices, try to login with default or known credentials, and send a Slack message if it finds anything. The initial release is here: https://github.com/SecurityWeekly/netslackbot

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The business of Security is gaining in maturity, from being an obscure corner of IT to becoming a core part of the C-Suite. How is this transformation happening and what can we learn from the similar trend that occurred in IT for the last decade?

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This week in the Security News: Following the ransomware money, the Mystery Snail, school cybersecurity is the law, sue anyone, just not security researchers, "hacking" a flight school, refusing bug bounties in favor of disclosure, Apple still treats researchers like dog poo, prosecuting people for reading HTML, giving up on security and a high school hacking prank that never wants to give you up and won't let you down!

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Sven will talk about GraphQL APIs. He is going to show common issues that arise from its usage and how to attack GraphQL applications.

This segment is sponsored by Invicti. Visit https://securityweekly.com/invicti to learn more about them!

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The world's top tech organizations are pursuing an open-source endpoint security strategy using osquery. We will dig into how osquery and Fleet can enable observation, collection, and investigation on endpoints. This open-source strategy eases deployment, reduces cost, improves trust, and provides flexibility to meaningfully improve security on the endpoint.

Segment Resources:

https://osquery.io

https://fleetdm.com

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