Risky Business

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

Chinese APT crew goes berserk with Exchange 0day

Russia hacks Ukraine and USA, India hacks China, China hacks India

The NYTimes got something big wrong again (shock horror)

CANVAS exploit pack leaks, including their sweet, sweet Spectre exploit

Atlantic Council report into offensive capability vendors/contractors

Your vCentre gear it probably already on fire: find out why!

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Yubico, the makers of the Yubikey.

Yubico Chief Solutions Officer Jerrod Chong will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about “passwordless authentication”. Some organisations have a pretty bad understanding of what passwordless is, while other organisations are running into the mountains to avoid even thinking about it. But with hardware supported WebAuthn becoming pretty much ubiquitous, Jerrod thinks a tipping point is coming. Also, they’ve launched passwordless auth for AzureAD.

NOTE: This podcast introduces Jerrod Chong as the CTO of Yubico. He’s actually the Chief Solutions Officer. It was our mistake, apologies!

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

This is a sponsored podcast featuring ExtraHop’s co-founder and CTO Jesse Rothstein. ExtraHop is a Network Detection and Response (NDR) vendor that started out offering network health and monitoring tools before being pulled into the security space by its own customers.

Jesse joined host Patrick Gray to talk about the SolarWinds compromise from a Network Detection and Response vendor’s perspective, about cloud security and monitoring, some of ExtraHop’s backstory and more. Enjoy!

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

USA floats new sanctions against Russia

TikTok, WeChat get stay of execution

Dependency confusion is ugh

US indicts Lazarus crypto-thieves

France ties Sandworm crew to Centreon intrusion

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This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder Haroon Meer is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to have a very Haroon-style conversation. We talk about how security controls and detections often fall over when things happen that take place outside of our assumptions: trojaned software updates, attackers hiding in unconventional places like monitors, things like that. That’s a great conversation.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Recent attacks by SVR against US targets have mostly been written up under the moniker of the “SolarWinds campaign”. In our view, that’s inaccurate. The defining characteristic of this campaign wasn’t the SolarWinds supply chain stuff, it’s was the abuse of Microsoft cloud services.

My understanding of how contemporary cloud services work isn’t actually as good as it should be. And that got me thinking – if my understanding isn’t that great, then there’s probably a lot of other people out there who don’t quite grok this stuff, particularly on the policy side. So, I set out to prepare a primer on Microsoft cloud security.

Our guest in this podcast is Dirk-Jan Mollema. He works at Fox-IT in the Netherlands and is one of their core researchers on Azure AD and Active Directory Security. What you’re about to listen to, essentially, is me picking his brain so I can wrap my own head around this stuff. The hope is that some of you will learn along with me!

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

The latest on the attempted Florida water poisoning incident

How to abuse Google Sync services for great victory

Why Signal’s TLS proxies for Iranians are probably a bad idea

OG username brokers targeted by social media legal army

Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Dan Guido of Trail of Bits. They’ve released an enterprise version of their iVerify tool. It’s a security tool for iOS (an Android version is in beta) that lets organisations monitor things like patch levels and passcode compliance without actually requiring the installation of MDM profiles. It’s an enterprise mobile security tool for orgs that don’t need or want full MDM.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

Emotet is… gone?

Accellion FTAs were owned everywhere, not just in ANZ

US courts air-gap sensitive filings in wake of Holiday Bear attacks

iOS 14 brings iMessage security improvements

Much, much more

Proofpoint’s Sherrod DeGrippo is this week’s sponsor guest. She joins the show to talk about Emotet’s demise, Trickbot’s survival, BEC, ransomware and more.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored, which means everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

This edition of the show is brought to you by Material Security. Basically what they do is lock up your cloud-based email. They use Google and Microsoft’s APIs to redact sensitive information from your mail spool – or even redact entire messages from your spool, like, say, anything over a month old – and then kick you up to an auth challenge when you want to access that mail.

It’s a product that recognises that email isn’t just a vector – often it’s an attacker’s target.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

DPRK offers free 0day to researchers, with a pretty significant catch

SonicWall gets owned because it runs SonicWall gear. Big mistake.

Chinese trains didn’t stop running because Flash died :(

Dominion to sue Rudy Giuliani for $1.3bn over insecurity claims

The sudo bug. Lol.

This week’s show is brought to you by Cmd Security, the Linux security company. Its focus has traditionally been on restricting the type of bash commands users can enter. It’s like a control plane for Linux systems. But some of its customers manage their Linux endpoints through different, non-bash entry points. So they’ve added some features to their product to deal with that, which has also resulted in them having an IDR capability. It’s all pretty sensible stuff though, and Cmd co-founder and CEO Jake King will be along to talk us through all of that.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

On this week’s show Dmitri Alperovitch, Sherrod DeGrippo and Joe Slowik join host Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news:

MalwareBytes the latest victim in the increasingly poorly-named “SolarWinds campaign”

FireEye issues helpful guidance, tools, to help orgs detect “golden SAML” and related techniques

Rob Joyce, Anne Neuberger, Michael Sulmeyer all get promoted! Wooo!

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. They make what we’re calling an execution control platform. Its central feature is easy-to-use and hard-to-bypass allowlisting. It’s a bunch of sensible and useable controls packaged up into a 7Mb. It slices, it dices, it slays lolbins and user powershell rights, and it comes in a beautiful suede pouch! It’s the endpoint protection you get when it’s built by practitioners in concert with people who actually understand windows internals. That’s right! Patrick is drinking the Kool-Aid on this one! Airlock founders Dave Cottingham and Daniel Schell join in this week’s sponsor interview to talk through allow-listings second wave of popularity.

Links to everything are below!

Joe Slowik and Katie Nickels are guest co-hosts in this week’s edition of the show. They join Patrick Gray to talk about:

Mimecast having some stolen certificate, errr, “problems”

The confusing reports about JetBrains

Analysis of the malware used in the SolarWinds campaign

Australian man arrested in Germany and charged with running DarkMarket

The Great Deplatforming of 2021

This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon.

If you’re a Gigamon shop you should really take a look at their ThreatInsight platform, that’s a no brainer. Even if you’re not, they’re real players in the network detection and response space. Joining us in this week’s sponsor interview is Jason Tesarz, a senior product manager for Gigamon ThreatInsight. He joined the show to talk about a few things, like how these days the NDR vendors are competing more around their workflows than trying to be the most comprehensive in detection.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick, Katie or Joe on Twitter if that’s your thing.