Risky Biz Soap Box: How to measure vulnerability reachability
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Socket founder Feross Aboukhadijeh about how to measure the reachability of vulnerabilities in applications.
It’s great to know there’s a CVE in a library you’re using, but it’s even better if you can say whether or not that vulnerability actually impacts your application.
They also talk about how Socket started out as a way to discover malicious packages in software projects, but these days it’s playing the CVE game as well.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Risky Business #802 -- Accessing internal Microsoft apps with your Hotmail creds
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
CISA warns about the path from on-prem Exchange to the cloud
Microsoft awards a crisp zero dollar bill for a report about what a mess its internal Entra-authed apps are
Everyone and their dog seems to have a shell in US Federal Court information systems
Google pays $250k for a Chrome sandbox escape
Attackers use javascript in adult SVG files to … farm facebook likes?!
SonicWall says users aren’t getting hacked with an 0day… this time.
This week’s episode is sponsored by SpecterOps. Chief product officer Justin Kohler talks about how the flagship Bloodhound tool has evolved to map attack paths anywhere. Bring your own applications, directories and systems into the graph, and join the identity attacks together.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
CISA, Microsoft issue alerts on ‘high-severity’ Exchange vulnerability | The Record from Recorded Future News
Advanced Active Directory to Entra ID lateral movement techniques
Consent & Compromise: Abusing Entra OAuth for Fun and Access to Internal Microsoft Applications
Cartels may be able to target witnesses after major court hack
Federal judiciary tightens digital security as it deals with ‘escalated cyberattacks’ | The Record from Recorded Future News
Citrix NetScaler flaws lead to critical infrastructure breaches | Cybersecurity Dive
DARPA touts value of AI-powered vulnerability detection as it announces competition winners | Cybersecurity Dive
Buttercup is now open-source!
HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame
US confirms takedown of BlackSuit ransomware gang that racked up $370 million in ransoms | The Record from Recorded Future News
North Korean cyber-espionage group ScarCruft adds ransomware in recent attack | The Record from Recorded Future News
Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files - Ars Technica
Google pays 250k for Chromium sandbox escape
SonicWall says recent attack wave involved previously disclosed flaw, not zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive
Two groups exploit WinRAR flaws in separate cyber-espionage campaigns | The Record from Recorded Future News
Tornado Cash cofounder dodges money laundering conviction, found guilty of lesser charge | The Record from Recorded Future News
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home | WIRED
Malware in Open VSX: These Vibes Are Off
How attackers are using Active Directory Federation Services to phish with legit office.com links
Introducing our guide to phishing detection evasion techniques
The State of Attack Path Management
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Risky Business #801 -- AI models can hack well now and it's weirding us out
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Google security engineering VP Heather Adkins drops by to talk about their AI bug hunter, and Risky Business producer Amberleigh Jack makes her main show debut.
This episode explores the rise of AI-powered bug hunting:
Google’s Project Zero and Deepmind team up to find and report 20 bugs to open source projects
The XBOW AI bug hunting platform sees success on HackerOne
Is an AI James Kettle on the horizon?
There’s also plenty of regular cybersecurity news to discuss:
On-prem Sharepoint’s codebase is maintained out of China… awkward!
China frets about the US backdooring its NVIDIA chips, how you like ‘dem apples, China?
SonicWall advises customers to turn off their VPNs
Hardware controlling Dell laptop fingerprint and card readers has nasty driver bugs
Russia uses its ISPs to in-the-middle embassy computers and backdoor ‘em.
The Russian government pushes VK’s Max messenger for everything
This week’s show is sponsored by device management platform Devicie. Head of Solutions Sean Ollerton talks through the impending Windows 10 apocalypse, as Microsoft ends mainstream support. He says Windows 11 isn’t as scary as people make out, but if the update isn’t on your radar now, time is running out.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch
Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet. | CyberScoop
James Kettle on X: "There I am being careful to balance hyping my talk without going too far and then this gets published 😂 maybe the countdown timer is just too ominous!
Risky Bulletin: China with the accusations again - Risky Business Media
美情报机构频繁对我国防军工领域实施网络攻击窃密
SharePoint Exploit: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain the Software — ProPublica
China fears Nvidia chips could track, trace and shut down its AIs - Asia Times
SonicWall urges customers to take VPN devices offline after ransomware incidents | The Record from Recorded Future News
Gen 7 SonicWall Firewalls – SSLVPN Recent Threat Activity
ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…
Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google
Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies - Ars Technica
The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware | WIRED
Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM campaign against diplomats | Microsoft Security Blog
Russia blocks popular US-made internet speed test tool over national security concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News
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Soap Box: Why AI can't fix bad security products
In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Risky Business #800 — The SharePoint bug may have leaked from Microsoft MAPP
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program?
Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup
The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse
Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes
Aeroflot gets hacked by the Cyber Partisans, disrupting flights
This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security. Daniel Cuthbert joins and explains how having telemetry about identity from inside the browser is a key pillar for investigating intrusions in the browser-centric future.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
Microsoft Probing Whether Cyber Alert Tipped Off Chinese Hackers
Microsoft says Warlock ransomware deployed in SharePoint attacks as governments scramble | The Record from Recorded Future News
What we know about the Microsoft SharePoint attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
An important update (and apology) on our PoisonSeed blog
Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
Top Lawyer for National Security Agency Is Fired
From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944
VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel - Ars Technica
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Treasury sanctions North Koreans involved in IT-worker schemes | Cybersecurity Dive
Minnesota governor activates National Guard amid St. Paul cyberattack | StateScoop
Outage was result of cyberattack, Post Luxembourg says
Clorox files $380 million suit blaming Cognizant for 2023 cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive
Cisco network access security platform vulnerabilities under active exploitation | CyberScoop
Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm | The Record from Recorded Future News
Cybercrime forum Leak Zone publicly exposed its users' IP addresses | TechCrunch
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