Mon, 10 September 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode E

Episode E -- Just a bunch of hosers

Teh Podcast Warz Haz Begun!

It's another week in infosec. I can't get excited about it either. Too many news stories of note, breaches and a new section - the SCADAs. In the same way that we had too many breach stories so we broke them out, we're doing the same with SCADA. Expect a lot of derision from Dave and I -- there's a lot of bullshit and we're calling it.

We'd also like to wave hello to the team at Riskhose. We're sorry that you misinterpreted young Matt's question - we'll straighten you out when we do our Risk-tacular episode this fall. Also, we're starting to suspect that the Riskhose Utahian may be a closet Canadian - he knows too much about Canadian musicians and he does know all of the words to Romantic Traffic (and yes Alex, when you come to Toronto, we'll go visit all of the subway stations so that you can produce your fan version of the video.)

Interestingly, between the Riskhose podcast and some threats from the Southern Fried Security bunch, it's on - the Podcast Wars are here - expect that the next few months are going to be epic in the world of infosec podcasting. We may even take a swipe at NetSec!

  1. Syria
  2. SSL Certificate Hijinks
  3. Cyber
  4. Hackers
  5. OSX
  6. Canadianisms
  7. The WIFIs
  8. Google-ized
  9. …and then our discussion topic - Dumb Stories

And if you've got commentary, please sent it to mailbag@liquidmatrix.org for us to check out.

DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work.

ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good.

In this episode:

Direct download: LSDPodcast-E.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 12:36pm EDT
Sat, 1 September 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode D

Episode D -- The Boys of Summer

Good News Everybody!

This is the longest one we've recorded yet -- by 0:59 -- and we will try to get these back down under an hour. Pinky swear. We've also gone over 10000 downloads from 63 countries. That's kinda cool - and thank you all very much. Lots of good stuff in this episode, it's totally worth the 74 minutes.

  1. Hackers
  2. The SCADAs
  3. Java
  4. Lawyers
  5. MOAR SCADAS!!!!
  6. Apple, Microsoft
  7. Stupid Employee Tricks
  8. …and then our discussion topic - Employee Tricks

And if you've got commentary, please sent it to mailbag@liquidmatrix.org for us to check out.

DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work.

ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good.

In this episode:

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Direct download: LSDPodcast-D.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 3:13pm EDT
Mon, 27 August 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode C

Episode C -- Brain Dump Semi-slow news week this week so we used the bulk of our time to talk about a topic most of us struggle with (even some of us on the show) productivity! A few stories and our opinions as usual and also a letter from a listener regarding our own Dave running for the ISC2 board. Again, if you have anything comments, questions, suggestions, hatred, bickering, cyberdouchery, please sent it to mailbag@liquidmatrix.org for us to check out. DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Creative Commons license: BY-NC-SA

Direct download: LSDPodcast-C.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 2:33pm EDT
Wed, 22 August 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode B

Episode B -- Artificial Intelligence Something pithy should probably be written here. All of us have so much on the go that we're saving our creativity for the podcast. Also, this one is pretty long. If you have thoughts or ideas, please send them to the MailBag (mailbag@liquidmatrix.org) and we'll talk about it here. DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Direct download: LSDPodcast-B.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 3:29pm EDT
Wed, 15 August 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode A

Episode A -- The Revolving Absence No James this week. Apparently, he's afraid of the Cylon^WBen invasion. Also, don't forget to throw something in the old email for us (mailbag@liquidmatrix.org), we're getting lonely - don't you still love us? DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Direct download: LSDPodcast-A.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 11:31am EDT
Wed, 15 August 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode 9

Episode 9 -- No Need For Syncizationhron So we find ourselves again again Mattless. We skipped out last week cause of bad hair, bad mojo, conflu and bad karma -- and $19.95 hotel internet (we have no budget and Canadian telco’s suck for roaming. )Also, this episode is a week late. The blame lies entirely with Ben's computer/ISP issues. Either that or Ben is a closet Cylon and doesn't want us to know. Notes etc. to mailbag@liquidmatrix.org -- we love to hear from you! DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Direct download: LSDPodcast-9.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 11:23am EDT
Sun, 22 July 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode 8

Episode 8 -- Bikini Troubles So we find ourselves again Mattless. What is it with security professionals and Hawaii? Good stuff in here, sorry about botching last week's episode link - this one should work better, also, go back and download last weeks. Notes etc. to mailbag@liquidmatrix.org -- we love to hear from you! DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Direct download: LSDPodcast-8.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 4:44pm EDT
Mon, 16 July 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode 7

Episode 7 -- Breach Week Special! Perfectionism is the enemy of publishing on time. It's another week and we've got a solid hour of discussion about the stuff that's important in the world of infosec this week. DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: In case it is unclear, this is the story of 4 opinionated infosec pros who have sufficient opinions of their own they don't need to speak for anyone except themselves. Ok? Good. In this episode:

Creative Commons license: BY-NC-SA

Direct download: LSDPodcast-7.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 10:30pm EDT
Tue, 10 July 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode 6

Episode 6 -- Anybody Know How Google Voice Works? MAGIC! Sorry for the delay in posting folks, someone (cough, @gattaca, cough) has a crappy ISP and someone (cough, SEACREST, cough) talks quietly and has a crappy mic, there's about 7 hours of editing and tweaking on this one -- and it still sounds like crap. DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. In this episode:

  • News
    1. BREAKING NEWS: Liquidmatrix Security Male Model on COVER of SCMag (also talks about Risk Management or something)
    2. Debit/credit card photos in tweets -- This Twitter account proves the infinite stupidity of humans (and other stupid shit ways to post pictures of your douchetacularness NSFW)
    3. Amazon talks about what went wrong in US East & Leap second makes availability pain (Check out the funny Twitter @AmazonStatus & CAP theorem)
    4. Phisher faces 50 years in the slammer
    5. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services fined for breach & Appeals court calls bank’s security “commercially unreasonable”
    6. Pornoscanners go mobile
    7. Wireless Hacking Suspected in Air Raid Siren Miscues
    8. Comodo blacklists itself (truth in Certificate Selling)
    9. Something bad happened in the iOS App Store... twice. Which (considering the relative sizes of the install base of iOS vs. well, everything) is still pretty awesome.
  • Commentary
    1. Errata
    2. Foot In The Door
      • hire the right auditors
      • use them as a tool to raise issues up to the executive
      • tell them the problem areas
      • invest time in the auditors and point them to your pain
      • feed them recommendation
      • don’t let them position compliance as security
    3. Hardcore
      • The box kicking story
      • For example -- finding a way to get the answer they don’t want to give
      • The prevarication story
      • Another opportunity to learn from auditors/old people
      • Asking questions into negative space -- to find answers you need to find the place in the middle where the facts have not coalesced.
      • Peter Falk - Just one more thing...
      • Matlock - How to get the jury to see it your way...
  • Mailbag

    1. mailbag@liquidmatrix.org

      Long time listener, first time writing in...

      I find myself compelled to write inasmuch as I found myself shouting at my iPod yesterday. I, of course, am referring to "Liquid Matrix Security Digest Podcast Episode 2" where a conversation about "What Should You Do If You Are The CISO Of A Breached Company?" occurred. Forgive me as I left the Post-It note with the timestamps of the offending speech on the mirror in my bathroom so that I may focus my Daily Rage upon it as I carefully shave "I da CISO, bitch!" into my scalp each morning.

      In essence Ben argued that the role of the CISO in the event of a password breach is to stride confidently into the CEOs office and say "I told you this was going to happen, this is not my fault, and we need to force all users to change passwords - Damn The Consequences, Man!" (While this is not a direct quote it it was I very distinctly heard...)

      While this is a nice gedankenexperiment in that it is very cool to imagine ourselves in the role of "Captain Astounding: Protector Of Users" but the reality of a breached company has certain rules..

      1) If the breached company is a startup or new venture the Senior Management regards this event as an existential crisis. Not so much to the company itself - but to their exit plan (hey, who doesn't dream of being bought by Facebook or Microsoft for a billion dollars?) or to their about-to-be-so-far-underwater-they-implode stock options. Lose track of this fact and You Are Toast.

      2) If the breached company is an older company the critical component is the quality of business leadership available. If they take counsel of their fears - see Rule 1. If they take a more mature view you can actually get effective response but know that you have almost no influence on that outcome.

      3) If you were the CISO pre-breach you have to realize your credibility and professional competence is seriously in question by *everyone*. It matters not that you wrote 523 emails protesting storage of passwords in clear text, nor that you did not get the budget to keep your IPS under maintenance, nor that $Security_Requirement was ignored. If this offends your sensibilities I would simply refer you to the Book of Hezekiah, Chapter 9, Verse 27 where it is written "Yea, and the LORD spake unto the people, and the LORD spake "Life is not fair - never said it was, never said it will be - Get Over It!" and thus the people were greatly nonplussed".

      4) If you are the successor to the CISO who ran the shop pre-breach you have to realize that nobody believes anything you say without the Incident Response Consultants agreeing with you. You have not been around long enough for anyone to trust you or to accept your influence. You will not be seen having the same "at-risk" quotient as everyone else (See Rule 1 above).

      5) Almost everyone company that experiences a major breach turns a significant portion of the response and decision making to Outside Counsel and Incident Response Consultants. There are good and bad reasons for doing this - let's just accept that it happens. Fighting these folks - especially Outside Counsel - is generally a No Win situation (See Rule 3 & 4 above).

      So what do you do?

      You do what you can. You use whatever influence you have to try to do the right thing. But realize a breach response is *not* a Security Problem it is a Business Problem and that business folks are going to be in charge. If you cannot deal with that - you might want to become a Incident Response Consultant.

      Love, Uncle @armorguy

  • In Closing
    1. Tweetup - has to be pushed, sorry folks
    2. Bsides/BlackHat/DEF CON -- all but Ben / The Intern shall be there.
    3. Also, DEF CON has been cancelled - check status here
    4. Hacker Pyramid!
    5. Also, have a look at the Declaration of Internet Freedom. We like it. You should like it too. Although Liking it on Facebook shows that you don’t understand the fucking point of the Declaration.
    6. As of recording time, tomorrow is the day when the internet shuts down -- DNSchanger DNS servers are going down. So I guess you won’t ever hear this episode.
    7. THERE IS NO SEACREST.

Creative Commons license: BY-NC-SA

Direct download: LSDPodcast-6.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT
Fri, 29 June 2012
Liquidmatrix Security Digest Podcast - Episode 5

Episode 5 -- Everybody's Working For The Weekend (Canada Day Edition) The fun with the Liquidmatrix gang continues in this episode. Pay close attention and you'll notice that there aren't any edits in this one. That's right - one take and we've got it in the can. Lots of good stuff in here - let us know if we missed anything. DISCLAIMER: It's not that explicit, but you may want to use headphones if you're at work. In this episode:

  • News
    1. Operation Card Shop - UGNazi and 23 others get silver bracelets for free from the feds
    2. Hotels misrepresent credit card data security measures, FTC is not happy
    3. Typo squatter gets spanked by law firm
    4. Bank settles with wire fraud victim
    5. DHS gives federal agencies threat detection packages and DHS demos cyber attack to help sway lawmakers to pass a cyber bill
    6. RSA securid key not so secure - it’s broken - no it isn’t - yes it is - Damn you people - it's the smartcard portion of a dual-use device that's 'broken', quit slamming multi-factor authN.
    7. Portswigger get’s new tricks
      8. -
    8. Errata Charlatan of the Week
  • Commentary
    1. Foot In The Door
      • LM Team,

        First off I want to say that I'm really enjoying the podcast. I'm still very early into my career and trying to transition into InfoSec. I would love to hear about all of your views on Information Security in colleges. I was thinking about it following some twitter chatter between some people and Chris Eng about this. I thought that there were some good conversations. I'm a little bit disappointed since I just finished my M.S in Computer Info Sys with a security concentration. In the classes I took we learned some basic network security concepts. Only touched a bit on web application security. I was hoping we would of done some offensive stuff, but we never did.

        I compared my classes to pen testing classes out there and it seems to me they’re on a better track but what do I know.

        Just some thoughts,
        Jimmy

    2. Hardcore
  • Mailbag
    1. mailbag@liquidmatrix.org
    2. Hi there LiquidM,

      Long-time listener, first time emailer!

      I was wondering if you could help me with a small dilemma I'm facing. I've been working as one of those penetration tester types in the financial sector for a while now, and my company treats me right... but more and more I hear the calling of the darkside... no, not THAT darkside, the calls of those working for security companies and $vendor that get to do exciting things with exciting people! The ones that get to actually TALK about their research...

      So, what's a guy to do? Please LiquidM help me, you're my only hope!
      Chris

      P.S: Love the show... but you guys are very Canadian O.o' ;) See you guys in Vegas I hope.... eh!

    3. Hey there fellow Canucks…

      Over the years I've had many IT jobs, from network admin to system admin for small consulting firms in my area (nothing big). A common theme was the unwillingness to implement the most basic of security mechanisms, or acknowledge the possibility that the systems/networks we would implement for our clients were perhaps done in a un-secure fashion. As a security enthusiast this was very frustrating.

      On a few occasions, I would prove this using a few simple demonstrations on how easy malware, or human, could compromise the network (malicious emails, word/pdf docs, ms08_067 for example). Every time my demonstrations were brushed off as "unlikely" or "impossible", requiring a level of technical knowledge that no employee possesses inside "client X". One such place was an ISP, where we would setup and host websites, providing clients with FTP access to upload and download content. I was actually instructed not to make the passwords too complicated, to ensure our clients were able to use it. Even after I had showed my boss a public exploit (from exploit-db) was available for the FTP software used. Again brushed off as "unlikely" seeing the exploit needed to be authenticated to properly function. This, of course, started the debate of weak passwords that lasted all of 2 seconds… At another spot, I actually showed the senior administrator (my supervisor), hosting a SSH server on port 80 was possible… funny. By now I think you get the picture on how security was handled, so I won't go any further.

      My question is what would you say to the lonely sys-admin, in a small to mid sized firm, on how to handle an employer that doesn't seem concerned at all with security? How should the lonely admin tackle these types of issues without annoying "the boss" with this silly thing called "security", when it's obvious he or she is not willing to listen?

      I'm fortunate enough to no longer be in this situation, but I'm sure there are many out there still living with these types of conditions.
      Steven

      ps.: hope all of this made sense, and good job on the podcast very much enjoying it so far

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Direct download: LSDPodcast-5.mp3
Category:LSD_Podcasts -- posted at: 11:20am EDT

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