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


USA floats new sanctions against Russia
TikTok, WeChat get stay of execution
Dependency confusion is ugh
US indicts Lazarus crypto-thieves
France ties Sandworm crew to Centreon intrusion
MORE


This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder Haroon Meer is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to have a very Haroon-style conversation. We talk about how security controls and detections often fall over when things happen that take place outside of our assumptions: trojaned software updates, attackers hiding in unconventional places like monitors, things like that. That’s a great conversation.

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

Recent attacks by SVR against US targets have mostly been written up under the moniker of the “SolarWinds campaign”. In our view, that’s inaccurate. The defining characteristic of this campaign wasn’t the SolarWinds supply chain stuff, it’s was the abuse of Microsoft cloud services.

My understanding of how contemporary cloud services work isn’t actually as good as it should be. And that got me thinking – if my understanding isn’t that great, then there’s probably a lot of other people out there who don’t quite grok this stuff, particularly on the policy side. So, I set out to prepare a primer on Microsoft cloud security.

Our guest in this podcast is Dirk-Jan Mollema. He works at Fox-IT in the Netherlands and is one of their core researchers on Azure AD and Active Directory Security. What you’re about to listen to, essentially, is me picking his brain so I can wrap my own head around this stuff. The hope is that some of you will learn along with me!

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


The latest on the attempted Florida water poisoning incident
How to abuse Google Sync services for great victory
Why Signal’s TLS proxies for Iranians are probably a bad idea
OG username brokers targeted by social media legal army
Much, much more


This week’s sponsor interview is with Dan Guido of Trail of Bits. They’ve released an enterprise version of their iVerify tool. It’s a security tool for iOS (an Android version is in beta) that lets organisations monitor things like patch levels and passcode compliance without actually requiring the installation of MDM profiles. It’s an enterprise mobile security tool for orgs that don’t need or want full MDM.

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 Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:


Emotet is… gone?
Accellion FTAs were owned everywhere, not just in ANZ
US courts air-gap sensitive filings in wake of Holiday Bear attacks
iOS 14 brings iMessage security improvements
Much, much more


Proofpoint’s Sherrod DeGrippo is this week’s sponsor guest. She joins the show to talk about Emotet’s demise, Trickbot’s survival, BEC, ransomware and more.

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

These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored, which means everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

This edition of the show is brought to you by Material Security. Basically what they do is lock up your cloud-based email. They use Google and Microsoft’s APIs to redact sensitive information from your mail spool – or even redact entire messages from your spool, like, say, anything over a month old – and then kick you up to an auth challenge when you want to access that mail.

It’s a product that recognises that email isn’t just a vector – often it’s an attacker’s target.

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


DPRK offers free 0day to researchers, with a pretty significant catch
SonicWall gets owned because it runs SonicWall gear. Big mistake.
Chinese trains didn’t stop running because Flash died :(
Dominion to sue Rudy Giuliani for $1.3bn over insecurity claims
The sudo bug. Lol.


This week’s show is brought to you by Cmd Security, the Linux security company. Its focus has traditionally been on restricting the type of bash commands users can enter. It’s like a control plane for Linux systems. But some of its customers manage their Linux endpoints through different, non-bash entry points. So they’ve added some features to their product to deal with that, which has also resulted in them having an IDR capability. It’s all pretty sensible stuff though, and Cmd co-founder and CEO Jake King will be along to talk us through all of that.

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