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

COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from Europe’s pharmaceutical regulator were altered before being published in a cybercrime forum, in what now looks like an effort to erode trust in Europe’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

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

These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored. If that’s not your thing and you’re looking for the weekly news edition of the show, just scroll one show back in your feed.

This soap box edition is brought to you by AttackIQ. They make a Breach and Attack Simulation platform that’s designed to test the effectiveness of your security controls by simulating bad things in your environment.

Carl Wright and Jonathan Reiber are joining us in this edition of the show. These days he’s AttackIQ’s senior director of cybersecurity and strategy but he previously served as a former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

They joined the show to talk through their work in mapping NIST 800-53 to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Enjoy!

Two of America’s most respected mastheads allege that attackers were able to poison a SolarWinds software update in early 2020 via the company’s use of JetBrains TeamCity, but there’s some critical details missing in this story.

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray talks to Joe Slowik and Dmitri Alperovitch about the APT campaign that impacted the US government and FireEye via SolarWinds’ supply chain.

Alex Stamos also joins the show to chime in more generally on supply chain interference before discussing some other news, like:

• Apple losing (most of) its case against Corellium
• Assange won’t be extradited… yet
• Adobe has finally killed Flash, and killed it good

You don’t get to choose how Russia hacks you.

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

• FireEye’s Very Bad Week
• Russian bears all up in your VMwares
• Chris Krebs sues Trump campaign
• Foxconn ransomware
• So much more

The NSA has warned that an unnamed Russian state-backed actor has been observed exploiting bugs in VMware’s endpoint and identity management solutions.

Soap Box podcasts like this one are wholly sponsored. This edition of the Soap Box is brought to you by VMRay. They make a virtualised sandbox that initially found a market with DFIR professionals, but these days is being used for all sorts of things.

VMRay’s cofounders – CEO Carsten Willems and CTO Ralf Hund – joined host Patrick Gray to talk through the history of the sandbox tech arms race.

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

• ORIGINAL: Ransomware insurance payouts are looking pretty unsustainable
• Trump lawyer calls for Chris Krebs’ execution
• Hunger relief charity loses $1m to BEC
• Supreme court weighs CFAA
• Much, much more!

Ransomware attacks are so rife and so costly that insurers are exploring ways to exclude ransom payments from their policies.

On this week’s show Patrick and Mark Piper discuss the week’s security news, including:

• UK unveils Cyber Force
• US passes surprisingly sane IoT security law
• Symantec drops some APT10 research
• MobileIron bugs getting a decent workout courtesy of state-backed attackers
• Much, much more…

The UK Government has thrown a coming out party for its National Cyber Force (NCF), a military unit with a similar remit to US Cyber Command, confirming that the capability can be used in offensive security operations against criminal targets.

This is not an edition of the weekly news show, scroll back one episode in your podcast feed if you’re looking for that. Rhis is a wholly sponsored podcast brought to you by Bugcrowd.

Bugcrowd’s CEO Ashish Gupta joins us in this edition of the Soap Box. He’s been the CEO over there for about three years, taking the reins from our friend Casey Ellis who moved into the CTO position.

As you’re about to hear, the bug bounty companies have moved on from the days when they just provided the simple service of running bug bounty competitions for their clients. What’s emerging is a much more nuanced product mix designed to extract as much usefulness as possible out of the testers registered on their platforms.

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

• CISA director Chris Krebs fired
• Trump ramps up his disinformation campaign
• TikTok ban stalls
• BlackBerry discovers new hacker-for-hire crew
• DNS cache poisoning is back. But do we really care?
• Much, much more

As his options for legal appeals thin out, Donald Trump is doing his utmost to undermine confidence in the 2020 election results. And yes, he’s blaming computers.

Payment data is being pitched as another tool to help contact tracing professionals squash outbreaks of COVID-19.

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

• Zoom settles with FTC over misleading E2EE claim
• Some poor sod had to give up $1bn in Bitcoin
• Solaris SSH 0day? Let’s party like it’s 1999
• Samy Kamkar’s latest trick: NAT Slipstreaming
• Australia’s hardcore critical infrastructure protection bill
• Much, much more

Judging by what gets put on show, we can no longer safely assume US superiority in exploit development.