We love to do security reviews on the projects, products, and services our companies use. Security reviews are one of those ways we can show how important security is. If those reviews didn’t get done we might end up using a service that could put our users and data at risk. Every good horror story involving dinosaurs starts with bad security reviews! It’s a lesson too few of us really take to heart. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about TLS 1.3 and DNS. What can we expect from the future for these, how are they related (or not related). We touch on DNSSEC and why it probably won’t matter. DNS over TLS is looking pretty great though. There is also a guest appearance from quantum crypto. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_111_The_TLS_1_3_and_DNS_episode.mp3 Show Notes Cloudflare TLS 1.3 blog NIST post quantum crypto Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

I gave a talk at OSCON 20 about security. It’s not a typical security talk though. I’ve given and attended a lot of what I would call “typical” security presentations. It’s generally about some big security idea, there’s likely some amount of blaming everyone except the security industry itself. We should make sure we throw in some analogies, maybe comparing cars to buggies or bridge safety. Blockchain is pretty hip now so that can probably solve the problem, maybe with AI. In general these presentation aren’t overly exciting and tend to play to the audience. They are fun, but that’s not the point this time. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about Black Hat and Defcon and how unexciting they have become. What happened with hotels at Defcon, and more importantly how many security policies have 2nd and 3rd level effects we often can’t foresee. We end with important information about pizza, bananas, and can openers. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_110_review_of_black_hat_defcon_and_the_effect_of_security_policies.mp3 Show Notes Kids hacking voting machines Black Hat plaintext email Defcon hotel shenanigans International Pizza Expo How to use a can opener How to open a banana Join our Facebook Group ...

Josh and Kurt talk about phishing training and how it doesn’t really matter. Josh spoke at OSCon and comes back with some fun observations and advice. People want practical actionable advice and we’re not good at that. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_109_OSCon_and_actionable_advice.mp3 Show Notes Traffic cone costume Azure Linux Masterlock Speed Dial Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about the latest attack on bluetooth and discuss phishing in the modern world. U2F is a great way to stop phishing, training is not. We also discuss airgaps in response to attacks on airgapped power utilities. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_108_bluetooth_phishing_airgaps_and_eating_soup_off_the_floor.mp3 Show Notes ECDH in Bluetooth Diffie-Hellman with paint Google Phishing Hackers jumped air gaps Portable secure data center Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

Josh and Kurt talk about modern hardware, how security relates to devices and actions. Everything from secure devices, to the cables we use, to thermal cameras and coat hangers. We end the conversation discussing the words we use and how they affect the way people see us and themselves. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_107_the_year_of_the_linux_desktop_and_other_hardware_stories.mp3 Show Notes Linux on Chromebooks Touchscreen and secrets Coat hanger vs Monster cables Build a toaster Join our Facebook Group ...

Josh and Kurt talk about Cory Doctorow’s piece on Facebook data privacy. It’s common to call data the new oil but it’s more like nuclear waste. How we fix the data problem in the future is going to require solutions we can’t yet imagine as well as new ways of thinking about the problems. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_106_data_isnt_oil_its_nuclear_waste.mp3 Show Notes Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags Fitness app leak Operation Mincemeat Bancor cryptocurrency theft CryptoKitties Join our Facebook Group ...

Josh and Kurt talk about some recent backdoor problems in open source packages. We touch on is open source secure, how that security works, and what it should look like in the future. This problem is never going to go away or get better, and that’s probably OK. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_105_more_backdoors_in_open_source.mp3 Show Notes eslint-scope issue Arch Linux Acrobat Reader issue Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

A lot of what we call security is voodoo. Most of it actually. What I mean with that statement is our security process is often based on ideas that don’t really work. As an industry we have built up a lot of ideas and processes that aren’t actually grounded in facts and science. We don’t understand why we do certain things, but we know that if we don’t do those things something bad will happen! Will it really happen? I heard something will happen. I suspect the answer is no, but it’s very difficult to explain this concept sometimes. ...