If you pay attention to Twitter at all, you’ve probably seen people arguing about patching your enterprise after the WannaCry malware. The short story is that Microsoft fixed a very serious security flaw a few months before the malware hit. That means there are quite a few machines on the Internet that haven’t applied a critical security update. Of course as you imagine there is plenty of back and forth about updates. There are two basic arguments I keep seeing. ...

Josh and Kurt have a guest! Mike Paquette from Elastic discusses the fundamentals and basics of Machine Learning. We also discuss how ML could have helped with WannaCry. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/323810101-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-48-machine-learning-not-actually-magic.mp3 Show Notes Canadians stranded in Portgual Elastic Machine Learning Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt discuss the WannaCry worm. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/322577205-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-47-wannacry-everything-is-basically-broken.mp3 Show Notes MS17-010 How to accidentally stop a global cyber attack Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt discuss the recent Google phish attack. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/320997006-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-46-turns-out-im-not-a-bad-guy.mp3 Show Notes Google phish spam Mail from 2011 detailing attack Links to OAuth permissions on major services https://myaccount.google.com/permissions https://twitter.com/settings/applications https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/third-party-applications https://account.live.com/Consent/Manage https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/your-account/myapps Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

I was reading the newspaper the other day (the real dead tree newspaper) and I came across an op-ed from my congressperson. Gallagher: Cybersecurity for small business It’s about what you’d expect but comes with some actionable advice! Well, not really. Here it is so you don’t have to read the whole thing. Businesses can start by taking some simple and relatively inexpensive steps to protect themselves, such as: » Installing antivirus, threat detection and firewall software and systems. » Encrypting company data and installing security patches to make sure computers and servers are up to date. » Strengthening password practices, including requiring the use of strong passwords and two-factor authentication. » Educating employees on how to recognize an attempted attack, including preparing rapid response measures to mitigate the damage of an attack in progress or recently completed. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss not-counterfeit MTG cards, antivirus, squirrelmail, unroll.me, grsecurity, baby monitors, and trust. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/320432805-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-45-trust-is-more-important-now-than-the-truth.mp3 Show Notes Mom Apologizes For Trying To Sell Son’s Rare Magic Card Squirrelmail security issue Stealing all your mail grsecurity Baby monitor security Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

The other day I ran across someone trying to keep their locker secured by using a combination lock. As you can see in the picture, the lock is on the handle of the locker, not on the loop that actually locks the door. When I saw this I had a good chuckle, took a picture, and put out a snarky tweet. I then started to think about this quite a bit. Is this the user’s fault or is this bad design? I’m going to blame bad design on this one. It’s easy to blame users, we do it often, but I think in most instances, the problem is the design, not the user. If nothing is ever our fault, we will never improve anything. I suspect this is part of the problem we see across the cybersecurity universe. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss Lego, bug bounties, pen testing, thought leadership, cars, lemons, entropy, and CVE. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/319388588-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-44-bug-bounties-vs-pen-testing.mp3 Show Notes Josh’s Blog on Bug Bounties A Security Market for Lemons Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Every now and then I see something on a blog or Twitter about how you can’t replace a pen test with a bug bounty. For a long time I agreed with this, but I’ve recently changed my mind. I know this isn’t a super popular opinion (yet), and I don’t think either side of this argument is exactly right. Fundamentally the future of looking for issues will not be a pen test. They won’t really be bug bounties either, but I’m going to predict pen testing will evolve into what we currently call bug bounties. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss Shadow Brokers, pronouncing GIF, Atlanta’s road problems, browser phishing, warning sirens, IoT, and fake Magic the Gathering cards. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/318438805-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-43-we-are-totally-immature.mp3 Show Notes Shadow Brokers How to pronounce GIF Atlanta gas leak breaks road New browser location phishing attack Hacked warning sirens IoT bricking malware Fake MTG cards Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag