Paul's Security Weekly

LLMs are helping devs write code, but is it secure code? How are LLMs helping appsec teams? Keith Hoodlet returns to talk about where he's seen value from genAI, where it fits in with tools like source code analysis and fuzzers, and where its limitations mean we'll be relying on humans for a while. Those limitations don't mean appsec should dismiss LLMs as a tool. It means appsec should understand how things like context windows might limit a tool's security analysis to a few files, leaving a security architecture review to humans. Segment resources: https://securing.dev/posts/ai-security-reasoning-and-bias/ https://seclists.org/dailydave/2025/q1/0 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.16165 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229 https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/thoughts-on-future-ai.html Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-323

What does a mature SecOps team look like? There is pressure to do more with less staff, increase efficiency and reduce costs. JP Bourget's experience has led him to believe that the answer isn't a tool upgrade, it's better planning, architecture, and process. In this interview, we'll discuss some of the common mistakes SecOps teams make, and where to start when building the SOC of the future. It feels like forever ago, but in the mid-2010s, we collectively realized, as an industry, that prevention was never going to be enough. Some attacks were always going to make their way through. Then ransomware got popular and really drove this point home. Detection engineering is a tough challenge, however. Where do we start? Which attacks should we build detections for? How much of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix do we need to cover? How often do these detections need to be reviewed and updated? Wait, are any of our detections even working? In this interview with Michael Mumcuoglu, we'll discuss where SecOps teams get it w

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This week: Compliance, localization, blah blah, the Greatest Cybersecurity Myth Ever Told, trolling Microsoft with a video, Github actions give birth to a supply chain attack, prioritizing security research, I'm tired of 0-Days that are not 0-Days, sticking your head in the sand and believing everything is fine, I'm excited about AI crawlers, but some are not, Room 641A, a real ESP32 vulnerability, do we need a CVE for every default credential?, smart Flipper Zero add-ons, one more reason why people fear firmware updates, no more Windows 10, you should use Linux, and I have a Linux terminal in my pocket, now what? Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-866

Organizations continue to suffer from security breaches, too many of which contain a human element. But there’s no consistent definition of the risk posed by human-related breaches, and recommendations are often limited to security awareness and training (SA&T). Understanding the depth and breadth of human-related breaches is critical to implementing adequate security controls within organizations. Jinan Budge, Research Director at Forrester, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss their Best Practice Report on Deconstructing Human-Element Breaches. Jinan will cover the breadth of human-related breaches, including: Social Engineering Human Error Loss/Theft of Physical Assets Social Media Compromise Insider Risk Deep Fake Scams Gen AI Misuse Narrative Attacks and why Security and Awareness Training is not the sole answer to solving human-related breaches. Join us, this discuss may get a little dicey. Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/breaking-down-human-element-breaches-to-improve-cyb

Angry Iguana, Squid Bot 9000, Bruted, 0Auth, Dragon Medical One, Clippy 2.0, CISA, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-460

The crypto world is rife with smart contracts that have been outsmarted by attackers, with consequences in the millions of dollars (and more!). Shashank shares his research into scanning contracts for flaws, how the classes of contract flaws have changed in the last few years, and how optimistic we can be about the future of this space. Segment Resources: https://scs.owasp.org https://scs.owasp.org/sctop10/ https://solidityscan.com/web3hackhub https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-322

Penetration tests are probably the most common and recognized cybersecurity consulting services. Nearly every business above a certain size has had at least one pentest by an external firm. Here's the thing, though - the average ransomware attack looks an awful lot like the bog standard pentest we've all been purchasing or delivering for years. Yet thousands of orgs every year fall victim to these attacks. What's going on here? Why are we so bad at stopping the very thing we've been training against for so long? This Interview with Phillip Wylie will provide some insight into this! Spoiler: a lot of the issues we had 10, even 15 years ago remain today. Segment resources: Phillip's talk, Optimal Offensive Security Programs from Dia de los Hackers last fall It takes months to get approvals and remediate cloud issues. It can take months to fix even critical vulnerabilities! How could this be? I thought the cloud was the birthplace of agile/DevOps, and everything speedy and scalable in IT? How could cloud secur

AI Bad, PHP, Remote Desktop, SuperBlack, Deepseek, Volt Typhoon, MassJacker, Roblox, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-459

Sounil Yu joins us to kick things off with AI defenses: Enterprise AI search tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 lack the in-depth access controls required to ensure that query responses align with the user’s need-to-know boundaries. Without proper controls, these tools accelerate the discovery of improperly secured sensitive files within the organization. Knostic’s solution ensures that enterprise data is safeguarded without slowing down innovation. By automating the detection and remediation of LLM data exposure, Knostic helps organizations mitigate the security, privacy, and compliance risks associated with AI chatbots and enterprise search tools. In the security news: The controversial pick for National Cyber Director, the not-so-controversial pick to lead CISA, complete with funding cuts, the controversial ESP32 backdoor that is not a backdoor but hidden features, Dark Storm takes down X, interesting use cases for LoRa, using AI to get your dream job, details on the biggest crypto heist in history, an E

Noam Krasniansky, the visionary founder of Komposite Blockchain, joins Business Security Weekly to explore Web3's transformative potential. Noam delves into the basics of blockchain technology, Bitcoin and the meteoric rise of Ethereum, and the critical role of decentralized systems in safeguarding brands against counterfeiting—a global issue costing companies $1.7 Trillions annually. The conversation will shed light on blockchain can be designed to enhance transactional efficiency and security. Noam highlights how verification technologies are key to combating counterfeiting, protecting intellectual property, and fostering trust in an increasingly digital economy. He also provides practical insights into how businesses and individuals can embrace blockchain innovations, redefining digital ownership, the making of new wealth, and empowering communities. In today’s dynamic markets, innovation is essential to maintaining a competitive edge. As Web3 technologies rapidly advance, businesses must adapt or risk fal

Brains, kill switch, unpaid parking, Cobalt Strike, Minja, Allstate, GitHub, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-458

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 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! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https

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 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 ad

Secret YouTube Videos, Thunderforge, ByBit, 365, Chrome, VMWARE, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! 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! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-864

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 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! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://se

Tastovision, Trufflepig, Cisco, Windows, VSCode, OT, SQL Server, Android, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-456

Curl and libcurl are everywhere. Not only has the project maintained success for almost three decades now, but it's done that while being written in C. Daniel Stenberg talks about the challenges in dealing with appsec, the design philosophies that keep it secure, and fostering a community to create one of the most recognizable open source projects in the world. Segment Resources: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/ https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-on-securing-180000-lines-of-c-code/ Google replacing SMS with QR codes for authentication, MS pulls a VSCode extension due to red flags, threat modeling with TRAIL, threat modeling the Bybit hack, malicious models and malicious AMIs, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-320

In 2011, Marc Andreessen predicted that software would eat the world. Specifically, the prediction was that software companies would take over the economy and disrupt all industries. The economic prediction has mostly come true, with 9 out of 10 of the most highly valued companies being tech companies. The industry disruption didn't materialize in some cases, and outright failed in others. Healthcare seems to be one of these 'disruption-resistant' areas. Ed joins us today to discuss why that might be, and what the paths towards securing the healthcare industry might look like. Segment Resources: Ed's podcast, Risk Never Sleeps We get a visit from Tanya Janca to discuss her latest book, Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding! Segment Resources: Tanya's latest book on Amazon Tanya's previous book, Alice and Bob Learn Application Security on Amazon Tanya's website, She Hacks Purple This week, in the enterprise security news, we’ve got some funding and acquisitions! ransomware payments are DOWN 35% infostealers o