Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

It is hard, if not impossible, to secure something you don't know exists. While security professionals spend countless hours on complex yet interesting issues that *may* be exploitable in the future, basic attacks are occurring every day against flaws in code that receives little review. For example, a "dated trend" by effective yet lazy hackers is to search for APIs unknown by security teams, coined "Shadow APIs", then connect to these APIs and extract data. SQL Injection used to be the hack of choice, as a few simple SQL commands would either mean pay dirt or "move on to the next target". Now the same can be said for Shadow API: Find, Connect, Extract. Himanshu will discuss one of many methods that are used in the wild to target Shadow APIs and export large volumes of data with a few clicks of a button or a few lines of code in Python.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw181

In the Enterprise Security News: 1Password plans to do some shopping with their massive Series C, Devo announces a $250M round, Permiso Security and Tromzo emerge backed by both traditional VCs and industry execs, STG spins out McAfee's MVISION XDR product as Trellix - the first of many spinouts, they say, Microsoft reminds us that, in addition to being the industry's largest security vendor, they can also drop $70B on video games if they feel like it, More reminders that open source is essential, but orgs with massive budgets will still treat it as worthless and disposable, Real-world stories of CI/CD pipeline compromises, Is Uber's former CSO going to jail?, and Tom Brady NFTs!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw257

In the Security News: Malware targets Ukraine, I wonder where that's coming from?, evil Google Docs comments, Russia grabs REvil, funding a dictatorship, Zoom zero clicks, When 9-year old's launch DDoS attacks, 5G interference, and when your Mom steals your brownies!

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An open discussion of challenges facing software and system architects in small and medium sized businesses.

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wpscan is a free tool for scanning WordPress, and let's face it, there are many vulnerabilities to be found in Wordpress! This segment will walk you through installing, configuring and using wpscan.

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Modern tech stacks are becoming increasingly complex puzzles of components built in-house and sourced from third-party vendors. With DNS at the center of the infrastructure, and staging and production being sometimes just minutes apart, scanning for CVEs is not enough to stay on top of web threats. There are lots of critical things traditional app scanners won't catch, like dangling DNS records, subdomain takeover and open S3 buckets. To keep their growing attack surface secure, companies need to combine crowdsourced vulnerability detection with solutions that detect outliers and anomalies in their software - before these become an attack vector. In this episode we'll discuss:

- Why hunting for vulnerabilities is no longer enough to stay on top of threats

- Vulnerability Management vs Attack Surface Management

- How security teams can adapt their vulnerability management process to modern dev cycles.

Segment Resources:

More insights on how to secure your external attack surface: https://detectify.com/resources

Free trial of Detectify's attack surface management solutions: https://detectify.com/product/surface-monitoring

https://detectify.com/product/application-scanning

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

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What can we do to raise awareness on issues of mental health for cybersecurity professionals? Neal walks us through some of the issues and ways to deal with them. Neil has also put together training and awareness materials around the subject.

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Scams and security flaws in (so-called) web3 and when decentralization looks centralized, SSRF from a URL parsing problem, vuln in AWS Glue, 10 vulns used for CI/CD compromises

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw180

This isn't a story about NPM even though it's inspired by NPM. Twice. The maintainer of the "colors" NPM library intentionally changed the library's behavior from its expected functionality to printing garbage messages. The library was exhibiting the type of malicious activity that typically comes from a compromised package. Only this time users of the library, which easily number in the thousands, discovered this was sabotage by the package maintainer himself. This opens up a broader discussion on supply chain security than just provenance. How do we ensure open source tools receive the investments they need -- security or otherwise? For that matter, how do we ensure internal tools receive the investments they need? Log4j was just one recent example of seeing old code appear in surprising places.

Segment resources

- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-open-source-developers-go-bad/

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/log4j-after-white-house-meeting-google-calls-for-list-of-critical-open-source-projects/

- https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/17/open_source_closed_wallets_big/

- https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/making-open-source-software-safer-and-more-secure/

- https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/security/onboarding-your-project

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/

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In the leadership and communications segment, Arming CISOs With the Skills to Combat Disinformation, Is the 'Great Resignation' Impacting Cybersecurity?, Ask These 5 Questions to Decide Your Next Career Move, and more!

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