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


Ransomware shutters US natural gas plants
Huawei hit with huge indictment
Voatz mobile voting app shredded by MIT, dust-up ensues
The latest from the Vault7 trial
Reality Winner seeking clemency
Ring to force all users on to 2FA
Israeli court rules Facebook must reinstate NSO staff profiles
USG drops more North Korean samples
OpenSSH gets Fido/U2F support


This week’s sponsor interview is with Dave Cottingham from Airlock Digital.

They make whitelisting software that’s actually useable. And until I did this interview I didn’t know that their agent actually does host hardening as well, which is pretty cool. Since we last spoke they’ve also popped up in CrowdStrike’s app store thingy, which means a bunch of you Crowdstrike customers will be able to dabble in some whitelisting if you want to.

Dave joins the show to talk about a bunch of stuff, including their experience having Silvio Cesare do a code audit on their agent.

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

Soap Box podcasts are fully sponsored which means everyone you hear on these editions of the show paid to be here. If you’re looking for the regular, weekly Risky Business podcast, just scroll one back in your podcast feed.

But you know what? I wouldn’t recommend it, because this edition of Soap Box is top notch. In it we’re joined by Jake King, a co-founder of Cmd Security.

Cmd makes Linux security software, and I love their approach mostly because, well, it’s simple. It has two main functions – visibility and control – but both of these functions focus on execution. The visibility piece is “which user executed what?” and the control piece is “only let user X execute Y”. The idea here is you can apply an additional layer of control over user actions, but obviously the visibility aspect to this is pretty useful at driving decisions around what sort of limits to put on various accounts.

Jake has fronted this edition of the show with an exclusive offer to Risky Business listeners, which is free use of their software. Obviously you won’t get access to absolutely all its features, but certainly enough of them to be very, very useful. They’re getting to the point where they can do this – throw out most of the functionality and just sell the icing on the cake to companies who want it. You can register for early access to the free trial at cmd.com/risky.

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


Chinese operators indicted over Equifax breach, more indictments coming
Alleged backdoor in Huawei lawful intercept features
Data on 6.4m Israelis exposed by political party app
Iowa caucus app was a pile of crap, 4chan clogged up caucus night phones
Corp.com is up for sale. That’s a lotta hashes.
Much, much more.


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

Corelight’s Richard Bejtlich joins the show this week in the sponsor slot to talk about what the company is doing to try to build the open source community behind Zeek, the tool its products are based on.

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:


Iowa app falls over, social and mainstream media chaos ensues
Twitter acknowledges state-backed API abuse
CDA 230 under review. Uh oh.
Toll Group ransomware
ICS-compatible ransomware spotted in wild
UN got owned pretty hard
Is Joshua Schulte The Shadow Brokers? A theory
Much, much more.


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

Okta’s Simon Thorpe will be along this week to talk about a new trend they’re seeing and obviously encouraging – enterprises ditching Microsoft’s Active Directory. It’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud, world these days. and in the year 2020, you might want to actually ask yourself – do you still need to be using AD?

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 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.