In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Socket founder Feross Aboukhadijeh about how to measure the reachability of vulnerabilities in applications.

It’s great to know there’s a CVE in a library you’re using, but it’s even better if you can say whether or not that vulnerability actually impacts your application.

They also talk about how Socket started out as a way to discover malicious packages in software projects, but these days it’s playing the CVE game as well.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Google security engineering VP Heather Adkins drops by to talk about their AI bug hunter, and Risky Business producer Amberleigh Jack makes her main show debut.

This episode explores the rise of AI-powered bug hunting:

• Google’s Project Zero and Deepmind team up to find and report 20 bugs to open source projects
• The XBOW AI bug hunting platform sees success on HackerOne
• Is an AI James Kettle on the horizon?

There’s also plenty of regular cybersecurity news to discuss:

• On-prem Sharepoint’s codebase is maintained out of China… awkward!
• China frets about the US backdooring its NVIDIA chips, how you like ‘dem apples, China?
• SonicWall advises customers to turn off their VPNs
• Hardware controlling Dell laptop fingerprint and card readers has nasty driver bugs
• Russia uses its ISPs to in-the-middle embassy computers and backdoor ‘em.
• The Russian government pushes VK’s Max messenger for everything

This week’s show is sponsored by device management platform Devicie. Head of Solutions Sean Ollerton talks through the impending Windows 10 apocalypse, as Microsoft ends mainstream support. He says Windows 11 isn’t as scary as people make out, but if the update isn’t on your radar now, time is running out.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

• Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch
• Is XBOW’s success the beginning of the end of human-led bug hunting? Not yet. | CyberScoop
• James Kettle on X: "There I am being careful to balance hyping my talk without going too far and then this gets published 😂 maybe the countdown timer is just too ominous!
• Risky Bulletin: China with the accusations again - Risky Business Media
• 美情报机构频繁对我国防军工领域实施网络攻击窃密
• SharePoint Exploit: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain the Software — ProPublica
• China fears Nvidia chips could track, trace and shut down its AIs - Asia Times
• SonicWall urges customers to take VPN devices offline after ransomware incidents | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Gen 7 SonicWall Firewalls – SSLVPN Recent Threat Activity
• ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…
• Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google
• Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies - Ars Technica
• The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware | WIRED
• Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM campaign against diplomats | Microsoft Security Blog
• Russia blocks popular US-made internet speed test tool over national security concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News

In this Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray chats with the CEO of email security company Sublime Security, Josh Kamdjou. They talk about where AI is useful, where it isn’t, and why AI can’t save vendors from their bad product design choices.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

• Did the SharePoint bug leak out of the Microsoft MAPP program?
• Expel retracts its FIDO bypass writeup
• The mess surrounding the women-only dating-safety app Tea gets worse
• Broadcom customers struggle to get patches for VMWare hypervisor escapes
• Aeroflot gets hacked by the Cyber Partisans, disrupting flights

This week’s episode is sponsored by Push Security. Daniel Cuthbert joins and explains how having telemetry about identity from inside the browser is a key pillar for investigating intrusions in the browser-centric future.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

• Microsoft Probing Whether Cyber Alert Tipped Off Chinese Hackers
• Microsoft says Warlock ransomware deployed in SharePoint attacks as governments scramble | The Record from Recorded Future News
• What we know about the Microsoft SharePoint attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
• An important update (and apology) on our PoisonSeed blog
• Tea User Files Class Action After Women’s Safety App Exposes Data
• A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
• Top Lawyer for National Security Agency Is Fired
• From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944
• VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
• Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel - Ars Technica
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• Treasury sanctions North Koreans involved in IT-worker schemes | Cybersecurity Dive
• Minnesota governor activates National Guard amid St. Paul cyberattack | StateScoop
• Outage was result of cyberattack, Post Luxembourg says
• Clorox files $380 million suit blaming Cognizant for 2023 cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive
• Cisco network access security platform vulnerabilities under active exploitation | CyberScoop
• Arizona woman sentenced to 8.5 years for running North Korean laptop farm | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Cybercrime forum Leak Zone publicly exposed its users' IP addresses | TechCrunch

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, founder of open source multi-cloud security product Prowler.

Toni explains how Prowler came to be, and how its journey followed his own learning about the cloud. The pair also discuss Prowler’s successful transition from an open-source project into a community, and now a growing business with an as-a-service platform.

This episode is also available on Youtube.