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As of late I’ve been seeing a lot of grumbling that security return on investment (ROI) is impossible. This is of course nonsense. Understanding your ROI is one of the most important things you can do as a business leader. You have to understand if what you’re doing makes sense. By the very nature of business, some of the things we do have more value than other things. Some things even have negative value. If we don’t know which things are the most important, we’re just doing voodoo security. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about a number of consumer security issues. The FBI told everyone to reboot their routers which they won’t do. The .app top level domain is a cesspool of malware. Everyone has a cell phone and won’t update them properly. None of this probably matters though. Unless there are real measurable tragedies caused by this tech, people tend not to really care. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_99_consumer_security_is_too_broken_to_fix_and_it_doesnt_matter.mp3 Show Notes FBI says reboot your routers .app cesspool Join our Facebook Group ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the NTSB report from the fatal Uber crash and what happened with Amazon’s Alexa recording then emailing a private conversation. IT decisions now have real world consequences like never before. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_98_when_it_decisions_kill_people.mp3 Show Notes Uber NTSB report Powerpoint and the space shuttle Alexa secret recording Siri unlocks the door 911 operator hangs up Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag ...

Josh and Kurt talk about the security of automation as well as automating security. The only way automation will really work long term is full automation. Humans can’t be trusted enough to rely on them to do things right. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_97_automation_humans_are_slow_and_dumb.mp3 Show Notes Tesla hits a firetruck British Tesla passenger Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

After my last post about security spending, I was thinking about how most security teams integrate into the overall business (hint: they don’t). As part of this thought experiment I decided to compare traditional security to something that in modern times has come to be called helicopter parenting. A helicopter parent is someone who won’t let their kids do anything on their own. These are the people you hear about who follow their child to college, to sports practice. They yell at teachers and coaches for not respecting how special the child is. The kids are never allowed to take any risks because risk is dangerous and bad. If they climb the tree, while it could be a life altering experience, they could also fall and get hurt. Skateboarding is possibly the most dangerous thing anyone could ever do! We better make sure nothing bad can ever happen. ...

Josh and Kurt talk about backdoors in code and products that have been put there on purpose. We talk about unlocking phones. Encryption backdoors with a focus on why they won’t work. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_96_all_about_backdoors.mp3 Show Notes CALEA Cellebrite unlocking phones Schneier on Ray Ozzie’s proposal UK RIP act Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about Twitter doing the right thing when they logged a lot of passwords, the npm malicious getcookies package, and how backdoors work in code. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_95_twitter_passwords_and_npm_backdoors.mp3 Show Notes Twitter password logging npm getcookies xkcd gluing things together Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about the Amazon Route 53 incident and what it really means for the modern infrastructure. Complaining nobody is using DNSSEC or securing BGP aren’t the right conversations to be having. Reality must be considered in any honest conversation about these topics. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_94_dns_bgp_and_reality.mp3 Show Notes Route 53 attack Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk about security flaws in beep and patch. How on earth were there security flaws in beep and patch? https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_93-Security_flaws_in_beep_and_patch_how_did_we_get_here.mp3 Show Notes beep security flaw patch security flaw Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag

Josh and Kurt talk to Rami Saas, the CEO of WhiteSource about 3rd party open source security as well as open source licensing. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode-92_chat_with_rami_saas.mp3 Show Notes WhiteSource Rami Saas Open Source Licenses Mercedes C-Class 205 Open Source Licenses Join our Facebook Group Comment on Twitter with the #osspodcast hashtag