Last week there was a story about Consumer Reports doing security testing of products. Consumer Reports to Begin Evaluating Products, Services for Privacy and Data Security As one can imagine there were a fair number of “they’ll get it wrong” sort of comments. They will get it wrong, at first, but that’s not a reason to pick on these guys. They’re quite brave to take this task on, it’s nearly impossible if you think about the state of security (especially consumer security). But this is how things start. There is no industry that has gone from broken to perfect in one step. It’s a long hard road when you have to deal with systemic problems in an industry. Consumer product security problems may be larger and more complex than any other industry has ever had to solve thanks to things such as globalization and how inexpensive tiny computers have become. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss how the Vault 7 leaks shows we live in the Neuromancer world, and this is likely the new normal. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/311442678-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-37-your-bathtub-is-more-dangerous-than-a-shark.mp3 Show Notes Hacker News Writeup about Vault 7 SATAN RTL-SDR White House Reconstruction Baseband Hacking CGA Graphics Chromium Security Brag Sheet French Zoo Poacher Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt discuss an IoT bear, Alexa and Siri, Google’s E2Email and S/MIME. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/310851037-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-36-a-good-enough-podcast.mp3 Show Notes IoT Bear Alexa murder evidence Google E2Email Google S/MIME Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

If you watched the 89th Academy Awards you saw a pretty big mistake at the end of the show, the short story is Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope, he opened it, looked at it, then gave it to Faye Dunaway to read, which she did. The wrong people came on stage and started giving speeches, confused scrambling happened, and the correct winner was brought on stage. No doubt this will be talked about for many years to come as one of the most interesting and exciting events in the history of the awards ceremony. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss SHA-1 and cloudbleed. Bug bounties come up, we compare security to the Higgs boson, and IPv6 comes up at the end. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/309898784-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-35-crazy-cosmic-accident.mp3 Show Notes SHA-1 attack Google Security Blog about SHA-1 Zcash hash algorithm analysis Webkit SVN Collision Google bug about cloudbleed Cloudflare Blog Known cloudbleed sites SHA-1 CVE-2005-4900 Whitewood Entropy Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you heard that some researchers managed to create a SHA-1 collision. The short story as to why this matters is the whole purpose of a hashing algorithm is to make it impossible to generate collisions on purpose. Unfortunately though impossible things are usually also impossible so in reality we just make sure it’s really really hard to generate a collision. Thanks to Moore’s Law, hard things don’t stay hard forever. This is why MD5 had to go live on a farm out in the country, and we’re not allowed to see it anymore … because it’s having too much fun. SHA-1 will get to join it soon. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss RSA, the cryptographer’s panel and of course, AI. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/309062655-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-34-bathing-in-ebola-virus.mp3 Show Notes FTP Firewall Problem RSA Cryptographer’s Panel ‘Overcome’ encryption Casino bombing Bill C-23 Security and AI DARPA AI challenge Amazon sells eggs Ford sleepy drivers Judge Caprio Logojoy Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt are at the same place at the same time! We discuss our RSA sessions and how things went. Talk of CVE IDs, open source libraries, Wordpress, and early morning sessions. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/307825712-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-33-everybody-who-went-to-the-circus-is-in-the-circus-rsa-2017.mp3 Show Notes Bradley Kuh Typosquatting package managers (mirror) zlib embedded library problem Wordpress CVE ID Josh’s 7am BoF session Bruce Schneier RSA talk Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

If I demand you jump off the roof and fly, and you say no, can I call you a defeatist? What would you think? To a reasonable person it would be insane to associate this attitude with being a defeatist. There are certain expectations that fall within the confines of reality. Expecting things to happen outside of those rules is reckless and can often be dangerous. Yet in the universe of cybersecurity we do this constantly. Anyone who doesn’t pretend we can fix problems is a defeatist and part of the problem. We just have to work harder and not claim something can’t be done, that’s how we’ll fix everything! After being called a defeatist during a discussion, I decided to write some things down. We spend a lot of time trying to fly off of roofs instead of looking for practical realistic solutions for our security problems. ...

Josh and Kurt discuss random numbers, a lot. Also slot machines, gambling, and dice. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/306639696-opensourcesecuritypodcast-episode-32-gambling-as-a-service.mp3 Show Notes Dilbert Random Numbers Slot Machine Cheats dieharder Cracking the Scratch Lottery Intel Atom 2000 Lavarand diceomatic Google security neuroscience Militant moderates Show tags: #random #prng Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag