Security

Josh and Kurt talk about a new FCC program to provide a cybersecurity certification mark. Similar to other consumer safety marks such as UL or CE. We also tie this conversation into GrapheneOS, and what trying to claim a consumer device is secure really means. Some of our compute devices have an infinite number of possible states. It’s a really weird and hard problem. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_423_FCC_cybersecurity_label_for_consumer_devices.mp3 Show Notes GrapheneOS FCC approves cybersecurity label for consumer devices Cyber Trust Mark Logo

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent events around XZ. It’s only been a few days, and it’s amazing what we already know. We explain a lot of the basics we currently know with the attitude much of these details will change quickly over the coming week. We can’t fix this problem as it stands, we don’t know where to start yet. But that’s not a reason to lose hope. We can fix this if we want to, but it won’t be flashy, it’ll be hard work. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the security.txt file. It’s not new, but it’s not something we’ve discussed before. It’s a great idea, an easy format, and well defined. It’s not high on many of our todo lists, but it’s something worth doing. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_422_Do_you_have_a_securitytxt_file.mp3 Show Notes RFC 9116

Josh and Kurt talk about the new SSDF attestation form from CISA. The current form isn’t very complicated, and the SSDF has a lot of room for interpretation. But this is the start of something big. It’s going to take a long time to see big changes in supply chain security, but we’re confident they will come. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_421_CISA_new_SSDF_attestation_form.mp3 Show Notes Secure Software Development Attestation Form The U.S. Military Is Missing Six Nuclear Weapons NIST 800-218

Josh and Kurt talk about what’s going on at the National Vulnerability Database. NVD suddenly stopped enriching vulnerabilities, and it’s sent shock-waves through the vulnerability management space. While there are many unknowns right now, the one thing we can count on is things won’t go back to the way they were. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_420_Whats_going_on_at_NVD.mp3 Show Notes Anchore’s Blog Grype Josh’s Cyphercon Talk Ecosyste.ms Episode 266 – The future of security scanning with Debricked

Josh and Kurt talk about an attack against GitHub where attackers are creating malicious repositories then artificially inflating the number of stars and forks. This is really a discussion about how can we try to find signal in all the noise of a massive ecosystem like GitHub. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_419_Malicious_GitHub_repositories.mp3 Show Notes GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

Josh and Kurt talk about recent stories about data breaches, flipper zero banning, and realistic security. We have a lot of weird challenges in the world of security, but hard problems aren’t impossible problems. Sometimes we forget that. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_418_Being_right_all_the_time_is_hard.mp3 Show Notes Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach Feds move to ban auto theft tech device ‘Flipper Zero’ Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for your email program Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Josh and Kurt talk to GregKH about Linux Kernel security. We most focus on the topic of vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel, and what being a CNA will mean for the future of Linux Kernel security vulnerabilities. The future of Linux Kernel security vulnerabilities is going to be very interesting. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_417_Linux_Kernel_security_with_Greg_K-H.mp3 Show Notes Greg K-H Linux Kernel is a CNA Machine learning and stable kernels Bug reporting for Linux

Josh and Kurt talk to Thomas Depierre about some of the European efforts to secure software. We touch on the CRA, MDA, FOSDEM, and more. As expected Thomas drops a huge amount of knowledge on what’s happening in open source. We close the show with a lot of ideas around how to move the needle for open source. It’s not easy, but it is possible. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_416_Thomas_Depierre_on_open_source_in_Europe.mp3 Show Notes Thomas Depierre I am not a supplier Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape devroom Cyber Resilience Act The 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report

Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post explaining how to create a very very small container image. Generally in the world of security less is more, but it’s possible to remove too much. A lot of today’s security tooling relies on certain things to exist in a container image, if we remove them we could actually result in worse security than leaving it in. It’s a weird topic, but probably pretty important. ...