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BlackHat 2024 Day 1 Recap

On this episode of the podcast, we cover our two favorite briefings from the first day at the Black Hat security conference. We start with our thoughts on "shadow resources" in cloud environments before giving an update to last week's episode with additional research into AI-as-a-Service attacks.

Stay Tuned for Hacker Summer Camp Recaps

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This week we will be attending Hacker Summer camp in Las Vegas. We will be publishing a recap each day focusing on our key takeaways.

CrowdStrike's Incident Report

This week on the episode, we walk through CrowdStrike's preliminary post incident report to understand exactly what happened during the July 19th outage and what all software vendors can learn from the event. After that, we cover a clever plot that lead to KnowBe4 hiring a North Korean threat actor. We end with some research from Wiz on Artificial Intelligence tenant isolation.

Global Security Outage

In this daily security byte with WatchGuard CSO, Corey Nachreiner, he explains the recent Global IT outage cause by a CrowdStrike update. We also follow-up on RockYou and the RockYou2024 data dump of 10 billion records.

Blast RADIUS

This week on the podcast we discover the newly-disclosed protocol vulnerability in certain RADIUS implementations. Before that, we give an update on the continued fallout from the Snowflake customer databreaches including a new disclosure from AT&T. We also discuss a blog post from JFrog that details how they saved the world from what could have been the worst supply chain attack in history.

OpenSSH regreSSHion Vulnerability

This week on the podcast, we cover OpenSSH's recent critical vulnerability and what it means for systems administrators. Before that, we discuss the CDK Global ransomware attack impacting car dealerships across the us, a Korean internet service provider delivering malware to their customers, and a takeover of a popular JavaScript library gone hostile.

Snowflake Breach Campaign

This week on the podcast we doscuss two issues from this month's Microsoft patch tuesday that deserve your attention. After that we discuss the recent data theft campain targeting Snowflake customers that has impacted over 100 organizations. We end the episode with an update on the hackers behind the MGM and Caesar's Entertainment breaches last year.

Q1 2024 Internet Security Report

This week on the podcast we cover the WatchGuard Threat Lab's Internet Security Report from Q1. In this episode, we discuss the latest trends in malware detections at the network and the endpoint, network attack trends, and malicious domains that targeted WatchGuard customers around the world.

Recall Windows Recall

This week on the podcast, we discuss a new Microsoft Windows feature that is shaping up to be a security nightmare. Before that, we discuss a new research initiative from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) that could make big improvements in healthcare cybersecurity.

SSID Confusion Attacks

This week on the podcast, we cover a newly disclosed weakness in the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that affects common enterprise Wi-Fi deployments. Before that, we discuss CISA's Secure by Design Pledge for technology vendors before ending with a Microsoft research post on Quick Assist social engineering.