HR Chatbots, MITRE, 4chan, Oracle, Identity, Port 53, NTLM, Zambia, Josh Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Govt Unravelling, AI Hijinx, Bot Chaos, Recall, Oracle, Slopesquatting, Tycoon 2FA, College, who knows, a lot more... On Paul's Security Weekly.

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Zero Trust isn't a new concept, but not one easily implemented. How do organizations transform cybersecurity from a "default allow" model, where everything is permitted unless blocked, to a "default deny" model?

Danny Jenkins, Co-founder and CEO at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss this approach. Deny by default means all actions are blocked by default, with only explicitly approved activities allowed. This shift enhances security, reduces vulnerabilities, and sets a new standard for protecting organizations from cyber threats. ‍ Danny will discuss how ThreatLocker not only protects your endpoints and data from zero-day malware, ransomware, and other malicious software, but provides solutions for easy onboarding, management, and eliminates the lengthy approval processes of traditional solutions.

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications section, Bridging the Gap Between the CISO & the Board of Directors, CISO MindMap 2025: What do InfoSec Professionals Really Do?, How to Prevent Strategy Fatigue, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-391

QUBIT AI, Recall This, Defender, Tycoon, Slopsquatting, Feng Mengleng, Aaran Leyland, and more, on the Security Weekly News.

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The breaches will continue until appsec improves. Janet Worthington and Sandy Carielli share their latest research on breaches from 2024, WAFs in 2025, and where secure by design fits into all this. WAFs are delivering value in a way that orgs are relying on them more for bot management and fraud detection. But adopting phishing-resistant authentication solutions like passkeys and deploying WAFs still seem peripheral to secure by design principles. We discuss what's necessary for establishing a secure environment and why so many orgs still look to tools. And with LLMs writing so much code, we continue to look for ways LLMs can help appsec in addition to all the ways LLMs keep recreating appsec problems.

Resources

• https://www.forrester.com/blogs/breaches-and-lawsuits-and-fines-oh-my-what-we-learned-the-hard-way-from-2024/
• https://www.forrester.com/blogs/wafs-are-now-the-center-of-application-protection-suites/
• https://www.forrester.com/blogs/are-you-making-these-devsecops-mistakes-the-four-phases-you-need-to-know-before-your-code-becomes-your-vulnerability/

In the news, crates.io logging mistake shows the errors of missing redactions, LLMs give us slopsquatting as a variation on typosquatting, CaMeL kicks sand on prompt injection attacks, using NTLM flaws as lessons for authentication designs, tradeoffs between containers and WebAssembly, research gaps in the world of Programmable Logic Controllers, and more!

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Default deny is an old, and very recognizable term in security. Most folks that have been in the industry for a long time will associate the concept with firewall rules. The old network firewalls, positioned between the public Internet and private data centers, however, were relatively uncomplicated and static. Most businesses had a few hundred firewall rules at most.

The idea of implementing default deny principles elsewhere were attempted, but without much success. Internal networks (NAC), and endpoints (application control 1.0) were too dynamic for the default deny approach to be feasible. Vendors built solutions, and enterprises tried to implement them, but most gave up.

Default deny is still an ideal approach to protecting assets and data against attacks - what it needed was a better approach. An approach that could be implemented at scale, with less overhead. This is what we’ll be talking to Threatlocker’s CEO and co-founder, Danny Jenkins, about on this episode. They seemed to have cracked the code here and are eager to share how they did it.

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We wanted security data? We got it! Now, what the heck do we DO with all of it?

The core challenge of security operations, incident response, and even compliance is still a data management and analysis problem. Which is why we’re seeing companies like Abstract Security pop up to address some of these challenges.

Abstract just released a comprehensive eBook on security data strategy, linked below, and you don’t even need to give up an email address to read it! In this interview, we’ll talk through some of the highlights:

• Challenges
• Myths
• Pillars of a data security strategy
• Understanding the tools available

Segment Resources

• A Leader’s Guide to Security Data Strategy eBook

In the enterprise security news,

1. new startup funding
2. what happened to the cybersecurity skills shortage?
3. tools for playing with local GenAI models
4. CVE assignment drama
5. a SIEM-agnostic approach to detection engineering
6. pitch for charity
7. a lost dog that doesn’t want to be found

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-402

Win95, Shuckworm, Ottokit, DCs, EC2, IAB, OSS, Recall, Josh Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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In the security news this week: You should really just patch things, the NVD backlog, Android phones with malware pre-installed, so convenient, keyloggers and a creepy pharmacist, snooping on federal workers, someone stole your browser history, NSA director fired, deputy director of NSA also fired, CrushFTP the saga continues, only steal the valid credit cards, another post that vanished from the Internet, hiding in NVRAM, protecting the Linux kernel, you down with MCP?, more EOL IoT, bypassing kernel protections, when are you ready for a pen test, red team and bug bounty, what EDR is really missing, and based on this story you should just patch everything all the time!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-869

This week, it's double AI interview Monday!

In our first interview, we discuss how to balance AI opportunities vs. risk. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how businesses operate. But with this exciting advancement comes new challenges that cannot be ignored. For proactive security and IT leaders, how do you balance the need of security and privacy in AI with the opportunities that come with accelerating adoption?

Matt Muller, Field CISO at Tines, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and approaches to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks. In this interview, we'll discuss ways to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks and strategies to help ease AI stress on security teams.

Segment Resources: - https://www.tines.com/blog/cisos-report-addressing-ai-pressures/ - https://www.tines.com/blog/ai-enterprise-mitigate-security-privacy-risks/

In our second interview, we dig into the challenges of securing Artificial Intelligence. Are you being asked to secure AI initiatives? What questions should you be asking your developers or vendors to validate security and privacy concerns?

Who better to ask than Summer Fowler, CISO at Torc Robotics, a self-driving trucking company. Summer will guide us on her AI security journey to help us understand:

• Regulatory requirements regarding AI
• Build vs. buy decisions
• Security considerations for both build and buy scenarios
• Resources to help guide you

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-390

DOS Lives, Web Cams Gone Wild, VSCODE, Coinblack, Oracle, P&G, Satan, Sec Gemini, Shopify, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-466