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Welcome back to the Tenable Research Podcast. In this new episode we look back at June’s Microsoft patches, and ask Tenable staff research engineer Satnam Narang what he feels the reasons are for the number of patches generally decreasing both monthly and annually.

We are also joined by director of product management Ray Carney, as we look into the increase of ransomware in 2021, what have been the causes of this increase, and what the threat landscape looks like currently.

Show References:

https://www.tenable.com/blog/microsoft-june-2021-patch-tuesday-49-cves-cve-2021-31955-cve-2021-31956-and-cve-2021-33742

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2021-21985-critical-vmware-vcenter-server-remote-code-execution

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After a looong absence, Bill and Gavin discuss Supply Chain Attacks and how Solarwinds personally impacted Gavin's slides. The chaps also talk through some pretty big additions to Tenable's Cloud capabilities with Frictionless Assessment.

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It was a long summer and fall months; nevertheless, we are back at it. This is the "lost" episode and final for 2020. We will try to be more regular in 2021.

Happy New Year! & Stay Safe!

In this episode, Gavin and I discuss what we have been up to over the last several months as we'll discuss some major improvements/innovations here at Tenable.

Links:
https://www.tenable.com/blog

https://www.tenable.com/blog/research

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In this episode Bill and Gavin discuss becoming more business aligned security leaders and how to influence change. 

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In this episode Bill and Gavin are joined by Wei Tai from the Data Science team to discuss Machine Learning and how accurate the team have identified the major vulnerabilities of 2019. Bill also learns how to press the record button so the team don’t have to record the podcast for a third time in a week.

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In this episode Bill and Gavin discuss predicting the vulnerabilities that matter most through machine learning and reducing the burden of patching the infrastructure.

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In this episode Bill and Gavin discuss Nessus on Raspberry Pi, which unfortunately didn't make it through the rigorous testing processes, and the top vulnerabilities you should be patching to secure the remote workforce.

https://www.tenable.com/remote-workforce
https://www.tenable.com/blog/how-covid-19-response-is-expanding-the-cyberattack-surface

Also apologies if we offend anyone this week, we might be going a tad stir crazy which is affecting our (Gavin's) filter somewhat.

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In this episode Bill and Gavin talk about protecting the new norm of the remote workforce and discuss CVE-2020-0796.

  • Tenable SRT Blog https://www.tenable.com/blog/cyber-exposure-alerts
  • Tenable Plugin list - https://www.tenable.com/plugins

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In this episode Bill and Gavin discuss a presentation on the top 5 attack vectors in 2020 according to SANS.

Here’s a link to the video of the presentation Bill and Gavin are referencing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7IFVJf3Lk

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New year, new format. Instead of the usual Olson mocking through the use of the latest cyber news, Bill and Gavin will be sharing some inner workings of team Tenable and what the dev are creating.

In this episode, Bill and Gavin talk about the innovation competition between dev teams and measuring the maturity of your assessment practices. 

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In this special episode, Bill and Gavin are joined by Tenable's CISO Bob Huber and Data Scientist Bryan Doyle. The chaps discuss measurements that matter and how to communicate security effectiveness.

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In this episode Bill finally gets some payback on Gavin, they discuss Smart Televisions on spending sprees, a goose with a bad attitude and poor cyber hygiene and Bluekeep exploitation. Bill is also joined by Amit Yoran, CEO of Tenable, to discuss learned helplessness in the world of Cyber Security.

Need a new job? Run for office

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-hot-job-real-time-password-manager-11573237540

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/469961-retirements-pose-threat-to-cybersecurity-expertise-in-congressMore

More stunt hacking

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/amazon_account_hacking/

HONK HONK

https://gizmodo.com/untitled-goose-game-vulnerability-allows-hackers-to-sew-1839443617

Bad hackers

https://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-plead-guilty-for-extorting-uber-linkedin/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b

Market differentiation?

https://securityintelligence.com/posts/why-its-time-to-adopt-iot-security-by-design/

Who has the real blues

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/solved-why-in-the-wild-bluekeep-exploits-are-causing-patched-machines-to-crash/

More adobe flaws

https://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-squashes-critical-vulnerabilities-in-illustrator-media-encoder/

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  1. Honey is not just for Pooh
    1. https://www.wilbursecurity.com/2019/10/rdp-honeypotting/
  2. Mo Money
    1. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5ddg/malware-that-spits-cash-out-of-atms-has-spread-across-the-world
  3. Oh boy
    1. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191004/19564743128/city-baltimore-blew-off-76000-ransomware-demand-only-to-find-out-bunch-data-had-never-been-backed-up.shtml
  4. Whoa - this is crazy
    1. https://fossbytes.com/hackers-use-wav-audio-files/
  5. A great blog
    1. https://medium.com/anton-on-security/move-to-cloud-a-chance-to-finally-transform-security-e9614aae4f9c
  6. Gavin made this up, right?
    1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/alexa-and-google-home-abused-to-eavesdrop-and-phish-passwords/
  7. RCEs are fun
    1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasty-php7-remote-code-execution-bug-exploited-in-the-wild/#ftag=CAD-03-10abf5f
  8. https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-7609-exploit-script-available-for-kibana-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
  9. The power of VPR
    1. https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-7609-exploit-script-available-for-kibana-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
  10. Mo Money Mo Money
    1. https://www.tenable.com/blog/cash-app-scams-legitimate-giveaways-provide-boost-to-opportunistic-scammers
    2. https://www.tenable.com/blog/cash-app-scams-giveaway-offers-ensnare-instagram-users-while-youtube-videos-promise-easy-money

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In this episode Bill and Gavin talk about dismantling hotel lamps for fun and profit, multiple router Vulnerabilities and keeping track of private information in repositories. Bill is also joined by Ryan and Scott from the research team to discuss a couple of major zero days affecting Exim and vBulletin.

  1. Keeping track of all your assets is hard
    1. https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit/
    2. https://www-vice-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/ywanev/thousands-of-cloud-computing-servers-could-be-owned-with-very-simple-attack-researchers-say
  2. Cisco has lots of things needing patching
    1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/04/cisco_patches/
    2. tieing it to this d-link vulnerability https://www.zdnet.com/article/d-link-routers-contain-remote-code-execution-vulnerability/
  3. Do you know the game - “never have I ever”?
    1. https://www.verdict.co.uk/wework-data-security-ipo/
  4. Are people thinking about BYOD anymore
    1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/attackers-exploit-0day-vulnerability-that-gives-full-control-of-android-phones/
  5. Is it me, or could this have been the plan along, too good be true is often…
    1. https://threatpost.com/bug-in-nsas-ghidra/148787/
  6. With all that is going on - could this be a thing that makes you go hmmm
    1. https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/facebook-patches-critical-whatsapp-security-flaw/d/d-id/1335993 and signal had a nasty bug as well https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/07/signal-patches-android-bug-that-allowed-hackers-to-answer-calls-on-your-behalf/
  7. Here take my charger, please
    1. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kx5nk/fake-apple-lightning-cable-hacks-your-computer-omg-cable-mass-produced-sold
  8. Tenable research
    1. https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2019-16928-critical-buffer-overflow-flaw-in-exim-is-remotely-exploitable
    2. https://www.tenable.com/blog/critical-zero-day-pre-authentication-remote-code-execution-exploit-published-for-5-x-versions

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In this episode Bill and Gavin talk snooping on cat scans, TGIF data breach, breaking into Gavin's bank account with a handy sound board and power grid blackouts. Bill also interviews Steve Smith and Kent Dyer from the Government Affairs team to understand issues affecting Governments across the Globe.

Can we get Gavin out of retirement
https://www.wired.com/story/air-force-defcon-satellite-hacking/

It could have been way worse
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-cyberattack-power-grid-blackout-destruction/

“My voice is my password, verify”
https://www.aidaily.co.uk/articles/y6lb0fd9agmmvc2fgkhorc3teapmdd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64

TGIF - down under is not as relaxing
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/cyber-security/tgi-fridays-data-breach/

Lessons are everywhere
https://www.tenable.com/blog/what-skyjacking-and-kidnapping-cases-can-teach-us-about-responding-to-ransomware-attacks?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldOaE1tVXdOelkxWWpVNSIsInQiOiJEQldWVUtpMjZ1YXU2aDZcL1k0b2U3K1RoZlY0Mlh0YnpFS1BYUmw1NUR6aXJHdmYyUXlXRGFtd0xFbDk5VHNGN0gzdGQyYVVtXC9lWlwvWXlqUVJLdzZmS2lRRXpPV1IxNzhBYTJkR2hnKzdKTVkrMmVaaG1mS1Z0QkJWTWhhcWR2aiJ9

How are you feeling?
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/82-iot-devices-of-health-providers-vendors-targeted-by-cyberattacks
https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet

Love the idea, the devil will be in the details
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/st-louis-dhs-team-up-for-smart-city-pilot/562031/

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  1. States be getting pwnd
    1. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2019/08/17/20-texas-jurisdictions-hit-coordinated-ransomware-attack-state-says
  2. Where are your notes, or is this your favorite text editor?
    1. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/major-security-flaw-in-notepad-leaves-windows-pcs-vulnerable-to-hackers/
    2. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/down-rabbit-hole.html
  3. RCEs in Windows 10
    1. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-patches-two-critical-windows-10-security-flaw/
  4. What else happens 20 times a day….
    1. https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/more-than-20-data-breaches-reported-per-day-in-first-half-of-2019/d/d-id/1335538
    2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/07/black_hat_keynote/
  5. Do you know what your business does?
    1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/26/security_roundup/
  6. Fun with apps
    1. https://www.tenable.com/blog/tiktok-scams-how-social-currency-fuels-the-economy-for-impersonation-accounts-and-free

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In this episode, Bill and Gavin discuss attacks against adult apps, a WhatsApp flaw that enables an attacker to change messages and join groups, hacking alarm systems with a $2 device, and predicting the NVD future with Predictive Prioritization.

Rogue Asset Discovery for free!
https://www.tenable.com/blog/new-capabilities-to-automatically-discover-and-assess-rogue-assets

Seeing into the future, or before NVD, with Predictive Prioritization
https://www.tenable.com/predictive-prioritization

LockPickingLawyer takes on IoT Alarms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNkQJzw4oA

3Fun hacking for fun and embarrassment
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/09/threesome_hookup_app_insecurity/

WhatsApp hack attack can change your messages
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/07/whatsapp-hack-attack-changes-your-messages-and-facebook-doesnt-seem-to-care/#1fa389532332

VXWorks flaw affects over 200M devices
https://www.wired.com/story/vxworks-vulnerabilities-urgent11/

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In this episode, Bill turns the insecurity tables on Gavin with the iOS 13 keychain bug. The chaps also discuss insecure trains, remote code execution vulnerabilities in Atlassian, and how to publicly respond to a major outage. This episode also features David Wells, who talks about the recent vulnerability he discovered in Comodo AV.

Rundown

https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/15/ios-13-password-bug/

Major software bug in IOS 13 beta reveals stored passwords without authentication

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/12/train_software_theftTrain software snaffled by employeehttps://www.corben.io/atlassian-crowd-rce/Multiple Atlassian Vulnerabilities

https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/an-exploit-chain-against-citrix-sd-wan-709db08fb4acMultiple vulnerabilities to pivot through the Citrix SD-WAN

https://www.tenable.com/press-releases/tenable-research-discovers-vulnerability-in-siemens-critical-infrastructure-designTenable research discover major weaknesses in Siemens

https://qz.com/work/1666535/cloudflare-turned-outage-into-teaching-point-about-transparency/Cloudflare shows the right way to discuss a major public incident

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In this episode, Bill and Gavin discuss strange meetings in English Forests, improvements in security guidelines around IoT devices, bricking iPhone with a single message, and the issues with non-experts defining government policy. Bill is also joined by Tenable Researcher Jimi Sebree to discuss how he discovers new zero-days and a recent Arlo Camera teardown.

  1. All things IoT
    1. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2019/NIST.IR.8228.pdf
  2. Crime does not pay
    1. https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/former-equifax-cio-sentenced-to-prison-for-insider-trading/d/d-id/1335078
  3. 1 more reason to use a password vault
    1. https://medium.com/@NullByteWht/hacking-macos-how-to-dump-1password-keepassx-lastpass-passwords-in-plaintext-723c5b1c311b
  4. Convenient loss @ a convenience store
    1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-eleven-japanese-customers-lose-500000-due-to-mobile-app-flaw/
  5. 2019 so far so….
    1. https://www.wired.com/story/biggest-cybersecurity-crises-2019-so-far/
  6. Protect yourself at all times
    1. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bas-magecart-breach-lands-it-183m
    2. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ba-hit-by-global-web-skimming/
  7. When the non-experts are making policy
    1. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/amazon-blasts-australias-technically-flawed-anti-encryption-laws-527855
  8. Bricking an iphone with malformed imessage https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1826
    1. Fixed in 12.3
    2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/07/07/google-confirms-apple-iphone-bricking-imessage-bomb/#788e01f07a43
    3. Similar to “Black dot” from last year

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In this episode, Bill and Gavin talk about a Firefox Zero Day, organizations facing bankruptcy due to ransomware, and MSSP's as an attack vector and C&C Slack. They are also joined by Matt Everson and Justin Brown from Tenable Research team.

  1. Breaches costing real money.
    1. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/collections-firm-behind-labcorp-quest-breaches-files-for-bankruptcy/
  2. Paying Ransom & other fees
    1. https://nypost.com/2019/06/20/florida-city-pays-hackers-600k-in-bitcoin-to-get-computer-systems-back/
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQjR3NWXqgk
    3. https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/06/24/eurofins-ransomware-attack/
  3. Firefox has a 0-day
    1. https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x43.html
    2. CVE-2019-11707
  4. Help software is the vulnerability
    1. https://safebreach.com/Post/OEM-Software-Puts-Multiple-Laptops-At-Risk
  5. Slack - is more than useful
    1. https://www.coalfire.com/The-Coalfire-Blog/June-2019/Introducing-Slackor
    2. https://www.tenable.com/blog/slack-patches-download-hijack-vulnerability-in-windows-desktop-app
  6. Gangs attacking MSSPs
    1. https://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/hacker-gang-deploys-ransomware-on-customer-systems-by-hacking-msps/

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Bill and Gavin talk about yet another leak of hundreds of millions of personal details with the Baltimore City Ransomware attack. The chaps are joined by Research Analyst, Claire Tills, to discuss how the media drive remediation efforts for popular vulnerabilities.

Baltimore City

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/05/17/eternalblue-new-heights-wannacryptor/

First American Title

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

SandboxEscaper

  1. https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/119704/
  2. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-10-zero-day-bug-emerges-from-bypassing-patched-flaw/ (this one has all the other bugs discovered)

ICS in Poland

https://medium.com/@woj_ciech/state-of-industrial-control-systems-in-poland-and-switzerland-656e2e363fe3

Old vulns and bad habits

  • https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-warns-of-campaign-1/
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/06/07/nsa-warns-microsoft-windows-users-update-now-or-face-devastating-damage/#6c0f5efb3aa0

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  1. Airbnb Superhost’s creepy spycam sniffed out by sleuthing infosec pro
  2. SharePoint servers under attack through CVE-2019-0604
  3. Open source bug poses a threat to sites running multiple CMSes
  4. Dhound Chatbot: open domains, IP addresses
  5. Unless you want your payment card data skimmed, avoid these commerce sites
  6. EXPLOITING 10,000+ DEVICES USED BY BRITAIN’S MOST VULNERABLE

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In this episode, Bill and Gavin talk easy-to guess-passwords, the Beapy Cryptojacking worm sweeping through Asia, as well as hungry cybercriminals leveraging credential-stuffing attacks.

  • 10 most hacked passwords
    • https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/most-hacked-passwords-2019
  • The Chipotle Hack And The Troubling Trend Of Credential Stuffing
    • https://www.blog.themoneycloud.com/digital-currencies/the-chipotle-hack-and-the-troubling-trend-of-credential-stuffing/
  • New zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0859 in win32k.sys
    • https://securelist.com/new-win32k-zero-day-cve-2019-0859/90435/
  • Beapy: Cryptojacking Worm Hits Enterprises in China
    • https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/beapy-cryptojacking-worm-china

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  • Corporate giants want to help students, feds and themselves by offering cyber pros $75,000 in loan assistance
    • https://www.cyberscoop.com/workforce-cyber-talent-initiative-loan-assistance/
  • Cool blog entry about building going "smart"
    • https://tisiphone.net
  • Owning WPA3
    • https://www.zdnet.com/article/dragonblood-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in-wifi-wpa3-standard/
  • All about Man in the Middle Attacks
    • https://hackercombat.com/man-in-the-middle-mitm-attacks-an-introduction/
  • Now you see Cancer, now you don't
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkRAArj-x0
  • Chipzilla
    • https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/11/intel_april_patch/
  • Windows 3.1 installed where?
    • https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-you-think/
  • The ubiquity of WordPress plugins
    • https://www.zdnet.com/article/mailgun-hacked-part-of-massive-attack-on-wordpress-sites/
  • Who is the group named Triton?
    • https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/triton-group-found-inside-second-1/
  • Ponemon Report (registration required)
    • https://lookbook.tenable.com/ponemonotreport/ponemon-OT-report
  • Ted Gary's Blog Entry
    • https://www.tenable.com/blog/cybersecurity-pros-face-significant-challenges-with-ot-security-ponemon-report

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In this episode, Bill tries to track merger and acquisition activity with children GPS devices. Gavin highlights the issues of hiding malware in BIOS, and Thom Langford from TL(2) joins to give a CISO's perspective.

Episode 6 story list:Motherboard flaws can lead to hidden malware
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/razer_laptop_flaw/

Mar-a-lago physical security failure
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/trump_china_malware_usb_stick/

Game of Thrones torrents packing nasty surprises
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2019/04/03/game-of-thrones-torrents-are-packing-a-nasty-surprise/

Researcher prints PWNED! on hundreds of GPS watches
https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-prints-pwned-on-hundreds-of-gps-watches-maps-due-to-unfixed-api/

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In this week's episode, Bill and Gavin discuss Cult of the Dead Cow, top ten vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks and leaky geolocation apps.

Episode 5 story list:

Microsoft Office Dominates Most Exploited List

  • https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/microsoft-office-dominates-most-exploited-list/d/d-id/1334198

For more on the Top Ten Vulns of 2018: https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/vulnerability-intelligenceBeto O'Rourke Was Part of an Infamous '90s Hacker Group

  • https://www.wired.com/story/beto-orourke-cult-of-the-dead-cow-hacking-group/

A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data

  • https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/23/family-tracking-location-leak/?guccounter=1

Two serious WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild — Ars Technica

  • https://apple.news/AWdmyqmhrSxWRIeKFWWp5ow

Hackers took over Asus auto update to deliver malware

  • https://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-took-over-asus-updates-to-send-malware-researchers-found/

Apple patches 51 bugs with iOS 12.2 release

  • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ios-122-patches-over-50-security-vulnerabilities/

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Bill and Gavin discuss several stories which highlight the challenges around cyber hygiene. This episode also features a discussion on vulnerability prioritization with Tenable's Kevin Flynn.

  • Developer Password Story - https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/naiakshi/Naiakshina_Password_Study.pdf
  • Ransomware stats dropping but it is as profitable as ever https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/ransomwares-new-normal/d/d-id/1334172
  • Decade old Vulnerability Found in WinRAR - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/nasty-winrar-bug-is-being-actively-exploited-to-install-hard-to-detect-malware/
  • Firm is run out business after a breach- https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-data-leak-fallout/
  • 20 Million stolen - https://www.wired.com/story/mexico-bank-hack/
  • Wordpress Vulnerability https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/14/wordpress_rce_vuln_v_5_1_0_previous/
  • Carnegie Mellon CVSS Paper https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2018/12/towards-improving-cvss.html