Podcasts

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’.

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

• Apple jailbreakers partying in the streets
• Donald Trump targets Crowdstrike over 4chan conspiracy nonsense
• Ransomware absolutely everywhere this week
• Horror-show VxWorks bugs are popping up in other stacks
• OnApp fixes mother of all misconfigurations
• More SIM card issues
• Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview we chat with Mr Sandbox himself, VMRay’s Carsten Willems. He’s along to talk about VMRay’s involvement in a machine-learning bypass competition that happened at DEFCON earlier this year.

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 the Snake Oilers podcast host Patrick Gray speaks to:

• Richard Bejtlich of Corelight

Richard talks about Zeek, formerly Bro, and how enterprises can use it to capture useful network information for analysis, forensics and detection purposes. Richard is an industry luminary and it’s a great interview.

• Marshal Webb of PATH Networks

Marshal explains how new technology like eBPF and XDP mean it’s possible to build DDoS mitigation rigs out of commodity hardware. That means DDoS mitigation is about to get a whole lot cheaper, and PATH is in pole position in this soon-to-be disrupted market.

• Chris Triolo from Respond Software

Respond Software makes a decision agent for the modern SOC. They are aiming to completely replace level 1 SOC analysts so those resources can be freed up to do higher-value work. They’re offering free live and retroactive trials of their software, and it definitely belongs in the “why not take it out for a spin” category.

Some links to the company websites and blogs are below!