A podcast about the world of Cybersecurity, Privacy, Compliance, and Regulatory issues that arise in today's workplace. Co-hosts Bryan Brake, Brian Boettcher, and Amanda Berlin teach concepts that aspiring Information Security professionals need to know, or refresh the memories of seasoned veterans.
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October 15, 202655 min
Password issues for Danish org, mimosas at midnight, and SocVel quiz
This episode discusses the breach of Denmark's CPR register with a weak password, CrowdStrike's identification of the ARTEX AI pen test tool, a double-cross in the Gentleman ransomware gang, and the Silent Ransom Group's $200 million earnings from stolen data. Chapters 00:00 Denmark's CPR register breached through an admin password of 123456 10:52 SocVel quiz Q1: China-linked attack on South Africa's air traffic control 15:34 Q2: How a New Jersey engineer who ransomed his employer was caught 22:40 Q3: CrowdStrike finds the ARTEX AI pentest tool used in attacks 25:35 Q4: The Gentleman ransomware: an affiliate double-crosses his gang 29:43 Q5: Silent Ransom Group's $200 million from data theft alone 34:47 Q6: Empire Market co-creator sentenced to 40 years 37:59 Q7: Iranian hackers pose as Dubai airport IT 42:19 Q8: Influencers targeted with fake brand deals 43:40 Q9: Midnight Mimosa, Android malware preinstalled on fake flagship phones 48:14 Q10: FBI on MicroScan and PhishHub, Flax Typhoon's tools 51:37 Quiz score, and Malware & Monsters, an OWASP incident-response game Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRTtp5QX9dg. Over an hour more content!
BSides San Diego's call for papers opens October 1, a teardown of Flock Safety's license-plate cameras published by Micah Lee turns up 53 hard-coded credentials and a Wi-Fi password of "security", new research says two-thirds of fraudulent hires are caught by gut feeling rather than security controls, LG explains what its smart TVs do and don't listen to, and CISA's Insider Threat Mitigation Guide ties it back to the fake-worker problem. Plus a first live test of Bryan's home-built Twitch/YouTube chat bridge. Chapters 00:00 Correction: BSides San Diego 2027 is March 27, not April 3 as said later in the show 00:30 Back after the Miramar Air Show drowned out last week's stream 02:23 Building a unified Twitch + YouTube chat bridge with Claude (and why it isn't open source) 08:56 BSides San Diego 2027: call for papers and workshops, October 1 to December 20, 2026; the event is March 27, 2027 17:37 Flock cameras: Android 8.1, a 2019-era kernel, 53 hard-coded credentials, and the encryption key stored next to the data it protects 39:58 Hiring fraud: 98% of HR leaders have seen it, and fake workers average six days of access before anyone notices 45:22 How Amazon caught a North Korean IT worker by 110 ms of keystroke lag 53:56 LG's smart TV "spying" story: wake words, automatic content recognition, and the 18-second voice limit 1:03:55 CISA's Insider Threat Mitigation Guide, and MICE: money, ideology, coercion, ego 1:23:03 Wrap-up: Seattle this weekend, and raiding FreedomDAO Links BSides San Diego: https://www.bsidessd.org CISA Insider Threat Mitigation Guide: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/insider-threat-mitigation-guide Music: Music provided by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of Youtube media library Some portion of this stream contain the use of AI agents for coding and content creation purposes, specifically, the show notes you're reading, and the background, and the chat application used in the stream.
July 17, 20251 hr 48 min
Jay Beale discusses his K8s class at BlackHat, Kubernetes developments, and mental health
Youtube Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPvGVfPgjI Jay Beale is a principal security consultant and CEO/CTO for InGuardians. He is the architect of multiple open source projects, including the Peirates attack tool for Kubernetes (in Kali Linux), the Bustakube CTF Kubernetes cluster, and Bastille Linux. Jay created and leads the Kubernetes CTF at DEF CON and previously helped in the Kubernetes project's Security efforts. He's co-written eight books and given many public talks at Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, CanSecWest, Blue Hat, ToorCon, DerbyCon, WWHF, HushCon and others. He teaches the highly-rated Black Hat class, "Attacking and Protecting Kubernetes, Linux, and Containers." He has served on the review board of the O'Reilly Security Conference, the board of Mitre's CVE-related Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language, and been a member of the HoneyNet project. He's briefed both Congress and the White House. Questions and topics: (please feel free to update or make comments for clarifications) * Kubernetes vs. Docker vs. LXC vs. VMs - why did you settle on K8s? * What's new with k8s? Version 1.33? Do you always implement the latest version in your CTF, or something that is deliberately vulnerable? ( https://www.loft.sh/blog/kubernetes-v-1-33-key-features-updates-and-what-you-need-to-know) * When you are making a CTF, what's your methodology? Threat model then verify? Code review? Github pull requests? * Story time; Not the first year you've done this(?), have participants ever surprised you finding something you didn't expect? * If I'm running K8s at my workplace, what should be bare minimum k8s security I should implement? Any security controls that I should implement that might cause performance or are 'nice-to-have' but may run counter to how orgs use k8s that I should be concerned about implementing? Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): https://kubernetes.io/ DEF CON Kubernetes CTF: https://containersecurityctf.com/ Black Hat training: https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/training/schedule/index.html#0-day-unnecessary-attacking-and-protecting-kubernetes-linux-and-containers-45335 https://www.bustakube.com/ https://github.com/inguardians/peirates Rory McCune's blog: https://raesene.github.io/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/production-kubernetes/9781492092292/ - O'Reilly book: Production Kubernetes Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaberlin/ Brian Boettcher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bboettcher96/ Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@brakeseced Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec
May 10, 20251 hr 24 min
Socvel intel threat quiz, Pearson Breached, nintendo bricking stuff, and kevintel.com
socvel.com/quiz if you want to play along! Check out the BrakeSecEd Twitch at https://twitch.tv/brakesec join the Discord: https://bit.ly/brakesecDiscord Music: Music provided by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of Youtube media library
April 22, 20251 hr 37 min
Bronwen Aker - harnessing AI for improving your workflows
Guest Info: Name: Bronwen Aker Contact Information (N/A): https://br0nw3n.com/ Time Zone(s): Pacific, Central, Eastern –Copy begins– Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed on this program are solely the views of the individuals involved and by no means represent absolute facts. Opinions expressed by the host and guests can change at any time based on new information and experiences, and do not represent views of past, present, or future employers. Recorded: https://youtube.com/live/guhM8v8Irmo?feature=share Show Topic Summary: By harnessing AI, we can assist in being proactive in discovering evolving threats, safeguard sensitive data, analyze data, and create smarter defenses. This week, we'll be joined by Bronwen Aker, who will share invaluable insights on creating a local AI tailored to your unique needs. Get ready to embrace innovation, transform your work life, and contribute to a safer digital world with the power of artificial intelligence! (heh, I wrote this with the help of AI…) Questions and topics: (please feel free to update or make comments for clarifications) Things that concern Bronwen about AI: ( https://br0nw3n.com/2023/12/why-i-am-and-am-not-afraid-of-ai/ ) Data Amplification: Generative AI models require vast amounts of data for training, leading to increased data collection and storage. This amplifies the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches, further compromising personal information. Data Inference: LLMs can deduce sensitive information even when not explicitly provided. They may inadvertently disclose private details by generating contextually relevant content, infringing on individuals' privacy. Deepfakes and Misinformation: Generative AI can generate convincing deepfake content, such as videos or audio recordings, which can be used maliciously to manipulate public perception or deceive individuals. (Elections, anyone?) Bias and Discrimination: LLMs may inherit biases present in their training data, perpetuating discrimination and privacy violations when generating content that reflects societal biases. Surveillance and Profiling: The utilization of LLMs for surveillance purposes, combined with big data analytics, can lead to extensive profiling of individuals, impacting their privacy and civil liberties. Setting up a local LLM? CPU models vs. gpu models pros/cons? Benefits? What can people do if they lack local resources? Cloud instances? Ec2? Digital Ocean? Use a smaller model? https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ AI coding assets are hallucinating package names 5.2 percent of package suggestions from commercial models didn't exist, compared to 21.7 percent from open source or openly available models Attackers can then create malicious packages matching the invented name, some are quite convincing with READMEs, fake github repos, even blog posts An evolution of typosquatting named "slopsquating" by Seth Michael Larson of Python Software Foundation Threat actor "_Iain" posted instructions and videos using AI for mass-generated fake packages from creation to exploitation Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): https://www.reddit.com/r/machinelearningnews/s/HDHlwHtK7U https://br0nw3n.com/2024/06/llms-and-prompt-engineering/ - Prompt Engineering talk https://br0nw3n.com/wp-content/uploads/LLM-Prompt-Engineering-LayerOne-May-2024.pdf (slides) Daniel Meissler 'Fabric' - https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16y95hk/a_starter_guide_for_playing_with_your_own_local_ai/ Ollama tutorial (co-founder of ollama - Matt Williams): https://www.youtube.com/@technovangelist https://mhtntimes.com/articles/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt https://www.whiterabbitneo.com/ - AI for DevSecOps, Security https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF3Q7jNAEc - neverending story using an LLM https://science.nasa.gov/venus/venus-facts Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaberlin/ Brian Boettcher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bboettcher96/ Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@brakeseced Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec
April 2, 20251 hr 16 min
post-bsides SD discussion, EPSS, the answer I should have given, and 'Lord Brake'
Check out the BrakeSecEd Twitch at https://twitch.tv/brakesec or Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast join the Discord: https://bit.ly/brakesecDiscord https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14172 - EPSS whitepaper https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jayjacobs1_epss-threatintel-vulnerabiltymanagement-activity-7308146548767404032-RubN https://www.first.org/epss/ https://events.zoom.us/ev/AmoNH3baC7HVqDlDmgUtd2uCmTCMwJXfkR8mG6I5OxzbW01nhRMQ~AoEYQz5ROK4ybE4iX9b0PL-1utz4z0nbyrTjT4lskH_08_zfesR_Q_rNlA - BHIS training with Bronwen Aker on 03 April 2025 Music: Music provided by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of Youtube media library
Check out the BrakeSecEd Twitch at https://twitch.tv/brakesec Join the Discord! https://bit.ly/brakesecDiscord Questions and topics: (please feel free to update or make comments for clarifications) * https://techoreon.com/http-flaw-in-apple-passwords-left-iphones-vulnerable/ * https://darkmarc.substack.com/p/attackers-dont-need-exploits-when * https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/129713/the-browser-is-riddled-with-bugs-2025-may-squash-them/ * https://medium.com/@vanvleet/compound-probability-you-dont-need-100-coverage-to-win-a2e650da21a4 (interesting article on quantifying attack risk by your coverage in MITRE) * https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/agent-security/ * https://www.socvel.com/quiz/ - 20March2025 edition! * https://secureannex.com/blog/buying-browser-extensions/ - interesting article about browser extensions * https://gist.github.com/c0m4r/45e15fc1ec13c544393feafca30e74de?permalink_comment_id=5298117#gistcomment-5298117 * https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chrome-extension-sold-to-new-dev-who-immediately-turns-it-into-adware/ * https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/you-can-just-take-things-cyber-letters?r=99bhj - oh boy, cyber 'letters of marque' Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): * VanVleet detection engineering podcast appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAQkvOyqME * https://medium.com/@vanvleet/technique-analysis-and-modeling-ffef1f0a595a * https://github.com/prodaft/cradle/ * https://blog.talosintelligence.com/css-abuse-for-evasion-and-tracking/ * https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2025/03/38161-analysis-fin7-anubis-backdoor Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaberlin/ Brian Boettcher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bboettcher96/ Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@BrakeSecEd Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec Music: Music provided by Chillhop Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of Youtube media library
February 17, 2025Episode 11 hr 1 min
steam distributes malware in game form, RDP open from DOGE servers, hacking a supply chain for 50K
Youtube VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu_smyQGvG4 https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-security-teams-fail https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1889610974484705314 – supply chain issues can crop up anywhere… are you blocking people from steam and popular software downloads online? https://www.landh.tech/blog/20250211-hack-supply-chain-for-50k/ https://medium.com/@cyberengage.org/rethinking-incident-response-from-picerl-to-dair-7b153a76e044 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HRkKznJoZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4Dd1I_fX0 Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): https://www.socvel.com/quiz/ https://xphantom.nl/posts/Offensive-Security-Lab/ Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaberlin/ Brian Boettcher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bboettcher96/ Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@brakeseced discord: https://discord.gg/brakesec Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec Music: https://chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred "Flex" by Jeremy Blake Courtesy of Youtube media library
June 1, 20241 hr 27 min
Tanya Janca Talks secure coding, Semgrep Academy, and community building, and more!
Check out the BrakeSecEd Twitch at https://twitch.tv/brakesec Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/brakesec #youtube VOD (in 1440p): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axQWGyd79NM Questions and topics: Bsides Vancouver discussion Semgrep Community and Academy Building communities What are 'secure guardrails' Reducing barriers between security and developers How to sell security to devs: "hey, if you want to see us less, buy/use this?" "Security is your barrier, but we have goals that we can't reach without your help." https://wehackpurple.com/devsecops-worst-practices-artificial-gates/ How are you seeing things like AI being used to help with DevOps or is it just making things more complicated? Not just helping write code, but infrastructure Ops, software inventories, code repo hygiene, etc? OWASP PNW https://www.appsecpnw.org/ Alice and Bob coming next year! Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): shehackpurple.ca Semgrep (https://semgrep.dev/) https://aliceandboblearn.com/ https://academy.semgrep.dev/ (free training) Netflix 'paved roads': https://netflixtechblog.com/how-we-build-code-at-netflix-c5d9bd727f15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory https://www.perforce.com/blog/qac/what-is-linting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSPTiw8gSEU https://techhq.com/2024/02/air-canada-refund-for-customer-who-used-chatbot/ Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@BrakeSecEd Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec
April 15, 20241 hr 16 min
Josh Grossman - building Appsec programs, bridging security and developer gaps
Youtube VOD: https://youtu.be/G3PxZFmDyj4 #appsec, #owasp, #ASVS, #joshGrossman, #informationsecurity, #SBOM, #supplychain, #podcast, #twitch, #brakesec, #securecoding, #Codeanalysis Questions and topics: 1. The background to the topic, why is it something that interests you? How do you convince developers to take your course? 2. What do you think the root cause of the gap is? 3. Who is causing the gaps? ('go fast' culture, overzealous security, GRC requirements, basically everyone?) 4. Where do gaps begin? Is it the 'need' to 'move fast'? 5. What can devs do to involve security in their process? Sprint planning? SCA tools? 6. How have you seen this go wrong at organizations? 7. How important is it to have security early in the product development process? 8. What sort of challenges do you think mainstream security people face in AppSec scenarios? 9. How does Product Security differ from Application Security? (what if the product is an application?) 10. What are the key development concepts that security people need to be familiar with to effectively get involved in AppSec/ProdSec? 11.. How do you suggest a security team approach AppSec/ProdSec? Leadership buy-in Effective/valuable processes Tools should achieve a goal 12. SBOM - NTIA is asking for it, How to get dev teams to care. 13. Key takeaways? Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?): BlackHat Training: https://www.blackhat.com/us-24/training/schedule/index.html#accelerated-appsec--hacking-your-product-security-programme-for-velocity-and-value-virtual-37218 https://www.walkme.com/blog/leadership-buy-in/ https://www.bouncesecurity.com/ https://www.teamgantt.com/blog/raci-chart-definition-tips-and-example https://www.cisa.gov/sbom SCA Tools https://chpk.medium.com/top-10-software-composition-analysis-sca-tools-for-devsecops-85bd3b7512dd https://semgrep.dev/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshcgrossman https://owasp.org/www-project-application-security-verification-standard/ https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/tree/master/5.0 https://owasp.org/www-project-cyclonedx/ https://joshcgrossman.com/ PyCon talk about custom security testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNZzDjvMlg Michal's Black Hat course - Accurate and Scalable: Web Application Bug Hunting: https://www.blackhat.com/us-24/training/schedule/index.html#accurate-and-scalable-web-application-bug-hunting-37210 https://www.blackhat.com/us-24/training/schedule/index.html#accurate-and-scalable-web-application-bug-hunting-372101705524544 ASVS website: https://owasp.org/asvs Lightning talk I did recently about OWASP: https://www.bouncesecurity.com/eventspast#f86548cb37cb2a82728b1762bd1b7aee Show points of Contact: Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@brakeseced Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec
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