Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

Noam Krasniansky, the visionary founder of Komposite Blockchain, joins Business Security Weekly to explore Web3's transformative potential. Noam delves into the basics of blockchain technology, Bitcoin and the meteoric rise of Ethereum, and the critical role of decentralized systems in safeguarding brands against counterfeiting—a global issue costing companies $1.7 Trillions annually.

The conversation will shed light on blockchain can be designed to enhance transactional efficiency and security. Noam highlights how verification technologies are key to combating counterfeiting, protecting intellectual property, and fostering trust in an increasingly digital economy. He also provides practical insights into how businesses and individuals can embrace blockchain innovations, redefining digital ownership, the making of new wealth, and empowering communities.

In today’s dynamic markets, innovation is essential to maintaining a competitive edge. As Web3 technologies rapidly advance, businesses must adapt or risk falling behind. Understanding the foundational principles of blockchain is no longer optional—it’s a necessity.

Segment Resources: 1) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/komposite-blockchain-launches-whitepaper-bridge-163600646.html 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOokN0XwpWE 3) https://rumble.com/v66x6ly-interview-komposite-a-fix-for-blockchain-limitations.html

In the leadership and communications segment, CISO vs. CIO: Where security and IT leadership clash (and how to fix it), The CISO's bookshelf: 10 must-reads for security leaders, The CISO's bookshelf: 10 must-reads for security leaders, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-386

Brains, kill switch, unpaid parking, Cobalt Strike, Minja, Allstate, GitHub, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-458

Just three months into 2025 and we already have several hundred CVEs for XSS and SQL injection. Appsec has known about these vulns since the late 90s. Common defenses have been known since the early 2000s. Jack Cable talks about CISA's Secure by Design principles and how they're trying to refocus businesses on addressing vuln classes and prioritizing software quality -- with security one of those important dimensions of quality.

Segment Resources:

• https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign
• https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge
• https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/product-security-bad-practices
• https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/reviews-essays/security-by-design
• https://corridor.dev

Skype hangs up for good, over a million cheap Android devices may be backdoored, parallels between jailbreak research and XSS, impersonating AirTags, network reconnaissance via a memory disclosure vuln in the GFW, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-321

2025 brings us close to an interesting milestone - ransomware attacks, in their current, enterprise-focused form, are almost a decade old. These attacks are so common today, it's impossible to report on all of them. There are signs of hope, however - ransomware payments are significantly down. There are also signs defenders are getting more resilient, and are recovering more quickly from these attacks.

Today, with Intel471's Mike Mitchell, we'll discuss what defenders need to know to protect against today's ransomware attacks. He'll share some stories and anecdotes from his experiences with customers. He'll also share some tips, and tricks for successful hunts, and how to catch attacks before even your tools trigger alerts.

Segment Resources:

• https://intel471.com/blog/how-ransomware-may-trend-in-2025

And now, for something completely different!

I've always urged the importance for practitioners to understand the underlying technology that they're challenged with defending. When we're yelling at the Linux admins and DevOps folks to "just patch it", what does that process entail? How do those patches get applied? When and how are they released in the first place?

This is often one of the sticking points when security folks get nervous about "going open source", as if 90% of the code in their environments doesn't already come from some open source project. It's a legitimate concern however - without a legal contract, and some comfort level that a paid support team is actually going to fix critical vulnerabilities, how do we develop trust or a relationship with an open source project?

In this interview, benny Vasquez, the Chair of the board of directors for AlmaLinux, will fill in some of the gaps for us, and help us understand how an open source project can not only be trusted, but in many cases may be more responsive to security teams' needs than a commercial vendor.

Segment Resources:

• benny's 'highly scientific' survey on cloud vs on-prem usage across AlmaLinux users

In the enterprise security news,

1. Why is a consulting firm raising a $75M Series B?
2. A TON of Cybereason drama just dropped
3. Skybox Security shuts down after 23 years
4. The chilling effect on security leaders is HERE, and what that means
5. IT interest in on-prem, does NOT mean they’re quitting the cloud
6. Updates on the crazy Bybit heist
7. the state of MacOS malware
8. Skype is shutting down
9. Mice with CRISPR’ed woolly mammoth fur is NOT the real life Jurassic Park anyone was expecting

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-397

Secret YouTube Videos, Thunderforge, ByBit, 365, Chrome, VMWARE, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-457

Hacking your mattress, Taylor Swift all the time, DNS sinkholes, throwing parties at rental properties, detect jamming, it took 18 years to hack, airtag hacks, undetectable weapons, RIP Skype, Cellebrite targets, upgrade ALL the things, Kali, Raspberry PIs, and M.2 hats, pirating music through a supply chain attack, Cisco small business and why you shouldn't use it, stop hacking Russia, Badbox is back, but it likely never left, and AI still Hallucinates!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-864

After Sophos acquires Secureworks, Sailpoint's IPO saves the index. The Security Weekly 25 index is now made up of the following pure play security vendors:

SAIL SailPoint Ord Shs PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd RBRK Rubrik Inc GEN Gen Digital Inc FTNT Fortinet Inc AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. FFIV F5 Inc ZS Zscaler Inc OSPN Onespan Inc LDOS Leidos Holdings Inc QLYS Qualys Inc VRNT Verint Systems Inc. CYBR Cyberark Software Ltd TENB Tenable Holdings Inc OKTA Okta Inc S SentinelOne Inc NET Cloudflare Inc CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NTCT NetScout Systems Inc VRNS Varonis Systems Inc RPD Rapid7 Inc FSLY Fastly Inc RDWR Radware Ltd ATEN A10 Networks Inc

In the leadership and communications segment, The CISO Transformation — A Path to Business Leadership, The CISO's dilemma of protecting the enterprise while driving innovation, When Hiring, Emphasize Skills over Degrees, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-385

Tastovision, Trufflepig, Cisco, Windows, VSCode, OT, SQL Server, Android, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-456

Curl and libcurl are everywhere. Not only has the project maintained success for almost three decades now, but it's done that while being written in C. Daniel Stenberg talks about the challenges in dealing with appsec, the design philosophies that keep it secure, and fostering a community to create one of the most recognizable open source projects in the world.

Segment Resources:

• https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/
• https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/
• https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-on-securing-180000-lines-of-c-code/

Google replacing SMS with QR codes for authentication, MS pulls a VSCode extension due to red flags, threat modeling with TRAIL, threat modeling the Bybit hack, malicious models and malicious AMIs, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-320

In 2011, Marc Andreessen predicted that software would eat the world. Specifically, the prediction was that software companies would take over the economy and disrupt all industries. The economic prediction has mostly come true, with 9 out of 10 of the most highly valued companies being tech companies. The industry disruption didn't materialize in some cases, and outright failed in others.

Healthcare seems to be one of these 'disruption-resistant' areas. Ed joins us today to discuss why that might be, and what the paths towards securing the healthcare industry might look like.

Segment Resources: Ed's podcast, Risk Never Sleeps

We get a visit from Tanya Janca to discuss her latest book, Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding!

Segment Resources:

• Tanya's latest book on Amazon
• Tanya's previous book, Alice and Bob Learn Application Security on Amazon
• Tanya's website, She Hacks Purple

This week, in the enterprise security news,

1. we’ve got some funding and acquisitions!
2. ransomware payments are DOWN 35%
3. infostealers on Macs are UP 101%
4. Bybit got hit by a $1.5B heist and shrugged it off
5. A SaaS report says AI is having no impact on pricing
6. Microsoft’s CEO says AI is generating no value
7. Google is dropping SMS as a second factor
8. Google creates a 4th state of matter instead of fixing Teams
9. What it’s like to be named “Null”

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-396