Defensive Security Podcast Episode 352
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Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec
1h 2m
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8 chapters
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What is the opening banter and sponsor shout‑out at the start of the episode?
All right, welcome to episode three hundred and fifty two of the Defensive Security Podcast. My name is Jerry Bell and joining me today as always is mister Andrew Khaled.
Good evening, Mr Bell. How are you, sir?
I'm awesome. How are you doing?
Good. Enjoying uh being an unemployed bum. But you know, trying to stay busy magical. It's it is there's this other downside which is the lack of paycheck. So that is that is the consequence. But nonetheless.
So I have to ask, you know, w w one of the things I I r I uh I struggled with when I was uh an unemployed bum a little bit ago was I I didn't know how I was able to actually fit work in during the day because I felt like I was so busy. doing other stuff. Like I I just didn't understand how I ever had time to actually work. But I'm back back to work again.
So uh yeah, no, it's it it is interesting how quickly you can fill up your days with random stuff. Uh yes. And Some of this was intentional to to decompress and get over some burnout and to to really kind of just rebuild. But I'm getting to a point now where it's like, uh, I could do some more I could do some stuff. I so I'm working on some projects and went to some training and Some personal stuff I've been wanting to do and catching up on a bunch of chores, but We've also been doing a little side consulting, which hey, if anybody out there is interested in, I'm happy to do consulting uh for your small, medium, large business. Reach out to me. But Uh so I'm I'm keeping busy, but I also am realizing like days go by when I don't feel like I've done anything productive and that bothers me a little.
So Like I need to I needed Make sure I'm productive in some way.
I certainly understand that. Absolutely. Yeah.
Anyway, that's that's going to
Moving on, I do wanna say thank you to our Patreon sponsors. Thank you very, very much. Uh I know Patreon, by the way, is It's changing quite a bit. I don't have my head wrapped around all of the changes they're doing, but they're I I infer they're trying to be kind of like Substack. Mm. You know, where where it's like a social network unto itself. So yeah, I've guessed I've got a Gotta figure that out. But in the meantime, thank you to our sponsors. If you do wanna become a sponsor We do post our episodes a week early and And we think that's that's uh worth the price of emissions. Thank you.
Yeah. And we're kicking around some other Patreon exclusives that may may come up soon. That just is a teaser, maybe. We're we're not sure yet. But we're thinking about it.
Yeah, we're just trying to figure out if You know, it how Patreon views feet pictures, but
I think we can win the battle. I think I think we'll prevail in court. It'll be fine.
Right. Speak speaking of, the thoughts and opinions we express on the show are ours and not those of our employers or really anybody else.
Sure. Nobody else would want them.
Okay, so getting into some stories. This the first one comes from Security Week and this is a follow up to a long spate of uh of what I now like to call repo worms. And I I think. I don't know for sure. But I think that GitHub really started taking these worms seriously when something like four thousand of their own repos got Yeah. But but anyway, last time we talked about how they were gonna start requiring multi factor authentication and now Uh they made they've announced another change with MPM version twelve, which is going to no longer allow execution from untrusted sources. By default and it's that by default that concerns me. Why is that? So I am a little concerned. That The developer community at large has kind of gotten used to how things work.
And as we talk about a lot, Yeah, things that inject friction into systems or you know, tend to get bypassed. And so my concern is that we're gonna start seeing some of these really sensible Protections. being bypassed or worked around and you know kinda reset back to the way it was for the sake of expediency.
Got it. So It's a good idea and and it and it will stop some of the current attacks we're seeing, at least making them a lot more difficult.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and sponsor shout‑out at the start of the episode?
0:31–8:29
2
How does npm 12’s new script‑execution policy aim to stop supply‑chain attacks?
8:29–23:40
3
What did the OpenClaw AI agent incident reveal about phishing‑resistant LLMs?
23:40–37:49
4
How is CISA’s new vulnerability‑remediation directive changing patch‑prioritisation?
37:49–46:06
5
What tactics did the Chinese‑state‑backed group use to stay hidden for ten years?
46:06–55:00
6
How are Fortinet firewalls being compromised and what can administrators do?
55:00–59:30
7
What practical steps do the hosts recommend for detecting and responding to long‑term intrusions?
59:30–1:01:58
8
What final thoughts and community resources are shared as the episode wraps up?
1:01:58–1:02:21