Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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