Podcasts

We’ll be hearing from three vendors in this edition of Oilers. Dino Dai Zovi will be along first up to talk about his startup, Capsule8, which looks very promising indeed.

After we’ve heard from Dino we’ll be chatting with Chris McNab. He used to run incident response for iSec Partners and later NCC Group, but these days he runs AlphaSOC, a company he founded. They’re a very simply play – they do DNS and IP analytics.

They offer that as a Splunk application or via an API, and you would be amazed how much bad stuff you can kick off your network with something as simple as DNS and IP analytics. Tor exfil, whole families of malware, BitTorrent, all sorts of stuff. Chris will be along soon to talk about that.

Then we’re rounding it out with a conversation with Sylvain Gil, the co-founder of Exabeam.

Exabeam started off in analytics and UEBA, but they’ve taken a bunch of money and they’re spending it on building out their SIEM, which is already pretty popular in certain circles because they don’t license it based on volume. Sylvain pops along later on to talk about how that’s changing SIEM use cases for a bunch of people. For example they can pump their EDR logs into their SIEM without wearing a seven figure SIEM consumption bill. He also walks through how they’ve used open source technologies like Hadoop in their products. It’s an all around chat that one, not so much a pitch, but yeah, I found it really interesting and I hope you will too.

Links to all three profiled vendors are below!

On this week’s show we’re speaking with Susan Hennessey, a Fellow in National Security in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and managing editor of Lawfare. We’re talking to her about cross-border law enforcement in the Internet age.

We hear a lot of people in the infosec community expressing some discomfort with the FBI’s use of Network Investigative Techniques designed to de-cloak Tor users. Susan pops by to explain why the FBI and other law enforcement bodies aren’t worried about the international ramifications of dropping de-cloaking technique on the whole planet.

We also cover off a few of the other issues around how data can be turned over to various governments. It’s a fascinating chat and it’s coming up after the news.

This week’s show is brought to you by Tenable Security. In this week’s sponsor slot we’ll be hearing from Ray Komar, Tenable’s VP of technical alliances. We’re talking to Ray about a partnership Tenable has formed with Siemens. They’re trying to tackle the issue of tracking vulnerabilities in industrial control system equipment, but as you’ll hear, people aren’t actually buying it so much for the vulnerability tracking side, they’re buying it for the visibility side. It turns out dropping a passive scanner on your ICS network is a good way to know what’s actually ON your ICS network.

As always, Adam Boileau pops in to discuss the security news. We cover:

• The Uber hack
• Apple’s comedy “root” bug
• Krebs on possible Shadowbrokers link
• Charges against more Chinese APT operators and Iranian HBO attacker
• More “hack back” legislation action
• Intel ME bug details
• Golden SAML
• MOAR

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

On this week’s show we check in with Mara Tam. She’ll be telling us why the idea of a so-called “Digital Geneva Convention” is silly.

Then, after that, Rich Smith of Duo Security will be in the sponsor chair.

You may have heard about some recent research Duo Labs did into Apple EFI patches basically not working/sticking. Rich walks us through that research, why Duo did it, how they did it, and what it can tell us. It might be Mac research but the real worry, as you’ll hear, is around Wintel firmware.

Adam Boileau pops by for this week’s news discussion. We’ll be covering:

• Facebook’s plan to combat “non-consensual intimate imagery”
• Wikileaks Vault8 leaks
• Assange sending a “guessed” password to Donald Trump Jnr
• NYTimes reports on the Shadowbears
• Cracking FaceID with a rubber mask
• MOAR

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

There’s no feature interview in this week’s edition, just a slightly longer news session with Adam Boileau, then it’s straight into this week’s sponsor interview.

Adam and I will be speaking about:

• Charges against Russian officials involved in the DNC hack
• Confirmation of Russian involvement in Ukraine artillery targeting app
• Attribution claims in Bad Rabbit campaign
• “Hack Back” bill is picking up steam
• 1 million installations of counterfeit WhatsApp clone
• A properly awful Tor browser bug
• The cryptocurrency comedies/tragedies of the week
• MOAR

Marco Slaviero is this week’s sponsor guest. He’ll be along with a radical marketing approach: He’ll be telling us what Canaries can’t do! But you know what? It’s a useful thought exercise. He’ll also update us on the latest stuff they’re doing in the cloud. They’ve got some new VMWare virtual canaries too.

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

In this edition of Snake Oilers we’re taking a look at two Australian companies and their solutions: Kasada and Haventec.

Kasada’s product is a simple one – it’s bot prevention using proof of work and a couple of other things, and Haventech’s solution is a bit more out there.

They’ve got a couple of products. One uses device fingerprinting plus a secret for authentication, but they’ve actually come up with something else that’ll be really interesting to people in the payment card processing space.

Basically they’ve come up with a way to split credit card info into a few pieces so it can be stored in a distributed way. Part of the info with the user, part with the merchant and part with the processor. It’s a better approach than tokenisation, and will drastically reduce the liability and costs that comes with storing huge amounts of card data on the processor side. Oh, and they’ve solved the chargeback problem on that one too.

Links to the companies profiled can be found below. I hope you enjoy the show!

On this week’s show we’re chatting with Zeynep Tufekci about how machine learning accelerates the dissemination of crazy s–t, basically. Zeynep’s September TED talk titled “We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads” is a must watch and has been doing the rounds on infosec Twitter over the last couple of weeks. She joins us this week to talk through what we might be able to do about the tendency of online platforms to send people down pretty warped rabbit holes. That’s a fascinating chat.

This week’s show is brought to you by Senetas.

Senetas is a Melbourne-based company that develops and manufactures layer 2 encryption gear. They also operate the SureDrop secure file sharing platform and are working on a bunch of cloud crypto tech as well. Julian Fay is CTO over at Senetas and he’s along this week to talk us through the bugs Matthew Green and his colleagues found in a bunch of FIPS-certified gear from Fortinet. It’s a really, really illuminating chat. I love it when Julian’s in the sponsor chair because I always learn a lot.

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

On this week’s show we’re catching up with Matt Tait. Matt’s better known as @pwnallthethings on Twitter. He’s joining us this week to talk about the claims various sources have made against Kaspersky. I say sources because up to this point the only thing we’ve seen is various officials saying people shouldn’t use it. There’s been no official statement from the government or the intelligence community that actually says “don’t use it”.

And the situation is getting ridiculous. It’s as clear as mud right now, basically, so Matt will be along later to argue the US government really just needs to back the claims in an official way if they’re to be taken seriously.

This week’s show is brought to you by Cylance. This week we’re chatting to Chris Coulter, a seasoned IR professional who’s recently moved from the services arm of Cylance to the product side. We’ll be talking to Chris about IR and where EDR software is going. That one is really worth listening to. It’s easy to look at Cylance today and just see another antivirus company. People have forgotten that they basically shook up the biggest market in infosec and I think they have a solid chance of doing the same thing with a few of their upcoming releases in the EDR and UBA space. So yeah, check out that sponsor interview with Chris Coulter, coming up towards the back of the show!

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

On this week’s show we’re chatting with Daniel Gruss an infosec researcher doing a postdoc in the Secure Systems group at the Graz University of Technology in Austria.

Daniel was one of the authors of a recent paper on a new Rowhammer technique. This one’s pretty clever, basically because it evades all known detection techniques by executing in an Intel SGX enclave.

In this week’s feature interview we chat with Dan Guido from Trail of Bits. He’s along this week to talk about his experience in helping to build secure software and security tools for his clients.

Of course the big news this week are the so-called “KRACK” attacks against WPA2. Adam’s done his homework on that and joins the news segment to tell you all how bad it is. We also look at the RNG bugs making life hard for smart card vendors and all the other news of the week!

Links to everything are below.

Oh, and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

On this week’s show we’re taking a deep dive into the latest news about Kaspersky and its alleged ties to Russian security services. The New York Times has just published an absolutely blockbuster piece that claims Israeli intelligence infiltrated Kaspersky’s network in 2014 and uncovered slam dunk evidence the company was operating espionage campaigns on behalf of the Russian government. We’ll jump into that in a minute, then in this week’s feature I’ll chat with Dave Aitel of Immunity Inc and get his feelings on the Kaspersky controversy.

Casey Ellis is this week’s sponsor guest. He’s joining us this week to talk about how people running their own bug bounties can avoid false negatives. A couple of weeks back we ran a feature here on the show about a guy who had a pretty hard time reporting a legitimate security bug to Microsoft. Casey will be along with some ideas on how companies might do better when managing a lot of inbound bug reports, many of which are bogus. How do you sort the wheat from the chaff.

Links to everything are below.

Oh, and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

There is no feature interview in this week’s show – it was a long weekend here in Australia plus a few things came up. But we’ve got a great show for you anyway. We’ll be discussing the week’s news headlines with Adam Boileau who’s back on deck after a short break, and then we’ll get straight into this week’s sponsor interview with Lee Weiner of Rapid7.

He’s the Chief Product Officer there and he’s joining us this week to explain why so many vendors are suddenly so obsessed with automation and orchestration. It’s a trend that actually makes a bunch of sense for a bunch of reasons, but the key is 100% going to be in the execution.

Links to everything are below.

Oh, and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.