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XZ Bonus Spectacular Episode

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,Continue reading “XZ Bonus Spectacular Episode”

Episode 378 – Naming things is harder than security

Josh and Kurt talk about namespaces. They were a topic in the last podcast, and resulted in a much much larger discussion for us. We decided to hash out some of our thinking in an episode. This is a much harder problem than either of us expected. We don’t have any great answers, but weContinue reading “Episode 378 – Naming things is harder than security”

Episode 268 – Can we trust any 3rd parties?

Josh and Kurt talk about what 3rd party means in the current world. From 5G suppliers, to the Codecov and Solarwinds breaches. Is there anyone we can trust? Show Notes Europe and 5G Codecov Codecov Reuters story Red Hat OpenSSH advisory

Episode 201 – We broke CVSSv3, now how do we fix it?

Josh and Kurt talk about CVSSv3 and how it’s broken. We started with a blog post to explain why the NVD CVSS scores are so wrong, and we ended up researching CVSSv3 and found out it’s far more broken than any of us expected in ways we didn’t expect. NVD isn’t broken, CVSSv3 is. HowContinue reading “Episode 201 – We broke CVSSv3, now how do we fix it?”