In this edition of the Soap Box podcast we’re joined by Zane Lackey, a co-founder of Signal Sciences.

Signal Sciences makes, in essence, a “next generation” Web Application Firewall, or WAF. Signal Sciences is a pretty well-established startup these days with a zillion customers, so he has some real insight into what’s happening out there in webapp land.

In this conversation he has some really interesting things to say: First, there’s a rush to Azure happening right now. It has become the platform of choice for all sorts of organisations.

He also has some really interesting things to say about how to protect web applications from logic flaws. Some simple ideas that should really help lock things down.

Enjoy!

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

• The FTI report on the Bezos incident is a massive let down
• UK lets Huawei into 5G build
• SeaTurtle campaign pinned on Turkey
• Mitsubishi owned through its AV solution
• Ransomware crews owning unpatched Citrix boxes
• Much, much more.

This week’s sponsor guest is Sherrod DeGrippo of Proofpoint. She’s a senior director of threat research there and she’ll be along to talk about the Emotet malware. Despite being spray and pray malware, it’s pretty successful because it operates at such ridiculous scale. Sherrod joins us with details.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

This podcast is brought to you by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Foundation funds a lot of interesting people and work in the cybersecurity space and they’re supporting this special podcast series examining topics of interest to cyber policy makers.

In this podcast we’re going to hear from Alexa O’Brien. She’s currently studying a Masters in Applied Intelligence at Georgetown University. She’s also working on an ethical framework for the applied intelligence discipline – collection, analysis and the like – for media practitioners.

Alexa is also a journalist. Her most recent major work is a July 2019 analysis of the US media’s coverage of civilian harm in the war against ISIS, I’ve linked through to that in the show notes below.

Before she worked as an established journalist, Alexa covered Chelsea Manning’s trial at Fort Meade on her blog. Her transcript of the proceedings were a tremendous help to the wider media, and it was this work that briefly pulled her into the Wikileaks “scene”.

It wasn’t a good fit.

Alexa joined me for this freewheeling discussion about intelligence, ethics, moral authority and signs that not everything is as it seems in the Wikileaks universe.

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

• MBS fingered in Bezos dick pic breach
• Glenn Greenwald facing cybercrime charges over Vaza Jato Telegram leaks
• Citrix finally patches 90s-style ADC bugs
• IE 0day doing the rounds, no patch available
• PoCs for 0601 drop
• Much, much more…

This week’s show is sponsored by VMRay, a sandbox-based malware analyser. You throw a sample into it and it spits out all sorts of useful information. Rather than having one of its own staff in this week’s sponsor slot, VMRay has put forward one of its customers instead. Expel is a managed security provider, and it is making heavy use of VMRay to do malware analysis. Tyler Fornes is a Senior Detection and Response Analyst at Expel and he joined me to talk about how they’re using VMRay to actually make life easier.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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

• NSA drops a sweet Microsoft crypto bug
• Burisma targeted by GRU. 2016 all over again?
• Citrix users having a bad time
• Intrusion Truth targets APT40
• No more BYOD for US soldiers in Middle East
• Much, much more

We have a new sponsor in this week’s show – ExtraHop Networks. Network monitoring is dead! Long live network monitoring!

Matt Cauthorn is ExtraHop’s VP of cybersecurity engineering and he’ll join us this week to talk about recent moves by cloud providers to offer full virtual network mirror ports out of their infrastructure.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

*Credit for this week’s headline goes to @appsecbloke.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Alex Stamos discuss all the week’s news, including:

• Will Iran cyber all the cybers?
• ToTok chat app alleged to be UAE spy tool
• China makes moves on own OS
• Big game ransomware hits crisis levels
• WSJ carries water for NSO Group
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you Bugcrowd. We’ll be hearing from Bugcrowd’s Casey Ellis in this week’s sponsor interview. He’ll be talking about the US federal government’s decision to force all departments into accepting bug reports – he thinks this is a move that will have a big impact on the wider security ecosystem.

Links to everything are below!

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

• China to ditch foreign hardware, software, from government use
• Huawei sues FCC
• More background on Project Raven
• Senate hearings into encryption
• Reddit fingers alleged RU disinfo campaign
• “Evil Corp” hackers have lots of money, terrible taste
• Ransomware attacks galore
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Haroon Meer of Thinkst Canary. And we’re going to do the typical thing and have a look forward to what we can expect to see in security next year. But we’re going less for the big, dumb predictions and more picking the trends we expect to strengthen over the next year.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Our guest in this edition is Will Peteroy. He’s currently the CTO of security at Gigamon after his company, ICEBRG, was acquired by Gigamon last year. Will has a long and interesting background in security.

As you’ll hear, he worked on the security team at Microsoft once upon a time. He even co-wrote Microsoft’s gigantic paper on mitigating “pass the hash” attacks some years ago. He also did some time with the “Department of Defense” some time ago. He’s a knowledgable fella.

And he’s been spending considerable time lately focussing on the issue of Zero Trust Networks.

Zero Trust is one of those things that’s super simple in theory, but absolutely, awfully complicated when you actually try to do it. So Will joined me for this chat about Zero Trust networks, how to define them, how to transition to them, what some of the steps are and thinking is. It’s a great conversation for any CSOs who are working through some of the issues that pop up when they’re transitioning to ZT architectures.

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

• Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith charged for allegedly teaching DPRK about cryptocurrency
• DHS/CISA government vulnerability disclosure program takes shape, looks good
• Adobe discloses Magento Marketplace data breach
• Fully patched Android devices targeted
• IM-RAT takedown
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Brian Robison of BlackBerry Cylance. He pops along to talk about some interesting research they’ve done on mobile malware.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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

• RIPE has officially run out of v4 addresses
• NSO workers sue Facebook to get their accounts back
• Mike Pompeo, Republican lawmakers keep Crowdstrike conspiracy theory alive
• Bugs, hacks, ransomware disasters and more.

This week’s sponsor interview is with Sally Carson of Duo Security. Sally has been a designer for over 20 years, joining Duo in 2015 to build the company’s Product Design and User Research practice from the ground up. Duo now employs one designer for every five users, which is an extremely generous ratio.

As you’ll hear, Sally thinks empathy is the key to designing usable technology.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

This is a Soap Box edition of the show. Soap Box isn’t our regular weekly news program. If you’re looking for that one, scroll one show back in your podcast feed.

Soap Box is a wholly sponsored series of podcasts we do here at Risky Business where vendors give us money to appear. And while these are sponsored episodes they’ve actually become almost as popular as the weekly show. They started off about half as popular, and then I guess people gradually realised they don’t actually suck, so here we are.

Trend’s head of cloud research, Mark Nunnikhoven, is our guest in this edition and we have a pretty wide ranging conversation. A big part of this conversation is us talking about the differences between locking down a corporate network vs locking down a modern application production stack… and there’s a very funny part of this interview where Mark points out that AV scanning for Docker images actually makes sense. Seriously.

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

• Phineas Phisher returns, claims credit for Cayman bank hack and offers bounties for activist hijinks
• Microsoft cautiously backs DoH
• Huawei granted another 90-day stay of execution in US market
• Iranian APT crew targeting ICS supply chain
• Alexei Burkov extradition complete, appears in US court
• Some very funny stuff is happening to GPS in the Shanghai area
• Louisiana government ransomwared, emerges relatively unscathed
• Official Monero binaries trojaned. Lol.
• Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Senetas. Rob Linton from Senetas joins the show this week to talk about its O365 integration for its SureDrop product, a new feature that will be of interest to many Risky Business listeners.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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

• Two ex Twitter employees charged with spying for KSA
• US border device searches now require suspicion after ACLU win
• Unredacted Corellium lawsuit response drops
• Ransomware attacks on hospitals increase mortality
• Much, much more!

This week’s sponsor interview is with Stephan Chenette, the co-founder and CTO of AttackIQ. We talk to him about some CSOs playing Pokemon Go with MITRE ATT&CK (“Gotta catch ‘em all!”) and about recent ATT&CK developments.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

The Soap Box podcast is a wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky.biz, which means everyone you hear on it paid to appear.

This edition of the Soap Box is brought to you by Capsule8.

It’s taken a long time, but over the last couple of years we’ve seen a meaningful Linux security software market emerge. It makes sense, I guess, considering the modern production environment is all glued together from various Linux systems. So, we’re seeing some interesting approaches to the Linux security challenge pop up.

Capsule8 makes detection and visibility software for Linux. You can use it to spot various types of funny behaviour on your Linux systems. Brandon Edwards is Capsule8’s chief scientist and he is our guest today.

We speak about a few things, but primarily this conversation centres on the fact that modern production environments have become so complex it’s almost impossible to comprehend how they work. We’ve lost insight, and we’ve even lost the ability to understand how individual security flaws can impact our wider production environments.

So we’re going to talk about complexity in modern production environments, and then we’ll talk a bit about Capsule8’s approach to the Linux security challenge. Enjoy!

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

• NSO Group malware turning up in some unexpected places
• Bluekeep mass exploitation finally begins
• Owning smart home devices with friggin’ lasers
• Two plead guilty to hacks on Lynda.com, Uber
• Imperva CEO departs following breach
• TLS Delegated Credentials sound like A VERY GOOD IDEA
• Cybercommand heads to Montenegro
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria from Thinkst recently did a keynote talk at the Virus Bulletin conference in London. Titled “The Security Products We Deserve,” it’s a stinging critique of the security product lifecycle. VC firms keeping stupid ideas alive, analyst firms being parasites, vendors not doing security testing on their equipment and so much more. We’ll be talking to Haroon Meer about that keynote in this week’s sponsor interview, which will run after this week’s news segment.

Links to everything are below.

This podcast is brought to you by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and it’s the second in a series of podcasts we’re doing that are all about cyber policy.

The Foundation funds a lot of interesting people and work in the cybersecurity space. So the idea behind this podcast series is pretty simple: we talk to Hewlett’s grant recipients, or experts in Hewlett’s network, about pressing policy issues and turn those conversations into podcasts. The whole idea is to get some policy perspectives out there among the Risky Business audience, which, funnily enough, includes a lot of policymakers.

This podcast features both Eric Rosenbach and Robert M Lee talking about ICS security.

Eric is the co-director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also heads the Defending Digital Democracy project there. Eric has a very long and somewhat fascinating resume. As United States Assistant Secretary of Defense he led the US Defense Department’s efforts to counter cyberattacks by Iran and North Korea on US critical infrastructure. He’s also worked as a Chief Security Officer in the private sector and served as Pentagon chief of staff from 2015-2017.

Robert M Lee is the founder of Dragos Inc, a very well known company in the ICS/OT security space. Rob started out in infosec with the US Air Force as a Cyber Warfare Operations Officer tasked to the NSA, but as you’ll hear, Rob is actually pretty optimistic about the ICT/OT security challenge.

On this week’s show Patrick and gust co-host Alex Stamos discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Facebook files suit against NSO Group
• Corellium responds to Apple suit
• Indian nuclear power plant administrative network likely attacked by DPRK
• Mass defacement in Georgia. Old schooooool!
• Fancy Bear targets 2020 Olympics
• FCC proposes subsidies for telcos to rip and replace Huawei, ZTE equipment
• City of Johannesburg data held to ransom, but it’s not ransomware
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Jake King of CMD Security. The topic is applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Alex on Twitter if that’s your thing.

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

• Fresh details on Turla’s hostile takeover of Oilrig
• Russians doing very interesting things with “tagged” TLS
• China wants an aerospace sector so a lot of people got a lot of owned
• Imperva releases breach details
• Zendesk cops to 2016 breach
• German manufacturer, US transport tech company sunk by ransomware
• NordVPN gets owned
• AVAST owned. Lots. Again.
• Welcome to Video takedown
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Trail of Bits! We’ll be hearing from Trail of Bits practice lead for assurance Stefan Edwards all about their work on a recent security audit of Kubernetes. As it turns out, Kubernetes isn’t actually a horror show, but Stefan thinks you might want to run a hosted instance unless you’re a real expert.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

In this edition of Snake Oilers Patrick speaks to:

• Justin McCarthy of StrongDM

StrongDM makes a protocol proxy that you can use to provision production services (like Kubernetes and SQL access) to users without them requiring full VPN access to prod. This is very cool stuff, if you manage a large prod environment that’s suffering from VPN sprawl you’ll want to check this one out.

• Nicholas Davis of Rapid7

Nicholas is the senior technical product manager for InsightIDR. InsightIDR is a SIEM/EDR play that integrates a bunch of stuff. These days Rapid7 is really emphasising the holistic nature of InsightIDR, rather than the endpoint part, and Nicholas joins the show to talk about that.

• Preston Hogue of F5 Networks

F5 Networks recently acquired NGINX as a part of a push to become cloud-relevant. Their strategy is to allow for F5 security smarts to be inserted basically anywhere and anyhow you want. Preston joins the show to talk about that!

Links to our Snake Oilers sponsors are below!

These Soap Box podcasts are a wholly sponsored series of podcasts we do here at Risky.Biz, so everyone you hear on the Soap Box podcast paid to be here.

But that’s ok, because we’ve got some great sponsors. This podcast is brought to you by Yubico, makes of the Yubikey devices. These podcasts with Yubico have basically turned into an annual thing. Jerrod Chong is the Chief Solutions Officer at Yubico and he joined me for this conversation about what’s new in Yubico-land. They’ve launched some new stuff, including Yubikeys with lightning adapters for iOS devices, and Jerrod also talks about hardware 2FA moving increasingly to the mainstream.

If you’re reading this within 48 hours of this podcast going live, you can get yourself a $20 discount on any two of the new series 5 Yubikeys by visiting this link and using the code ‘Risky19’.