Josh and Kurt talk about a lot of security vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday. There’s also a new Git vulnerability. This sparks the age old question of how fast to patch? The answer isn’t binary, the right answer is whatever works best for you, not what someone tells you is best. Show Notes Patch Tuesday Git securityContinue reading “Episode 319 – Patch Tuesday with a capital T”
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Episode 317 – The lack of compromise in security
Josh and Kurt talk about the binary nature of security. Many of our ideas are yes or no, there’s not much in the middle. The conversation ends up derailed due to a Twitter thread about pinning dependencies. This gives you an idea how contentious of a topic pinning is. The final takeaway is not toContinue reading “Episode 317 – The lack of compromise in security”
Episode 314 – The Linux Dirty Pipe vulnerability
Josh and Kurt talk about the Linux Kernel Dirty Pipe security vulnerability. This bug is an amazing combination of amazing complexity, incredible simplicity, and a little bit of luck. The discovery is amazing, the analysis is enlightening. There’s almost no way a bug like this could be found outside of open source. Show Notes DirtyContinue reading “Episode 314 – The Linux Dirty Pipe vulnerability”
Episode 313 – Insecurity at scale
Josh and Kurt talk about the challenges of security at scale. Specifically we focus on why a lot of security starts to fall apart once you have to do something more than a few times. There’s a lot of new thinking we need to push security forward. Show Notes Stable Linux Kernel and Machine Learning
Episode 312 – The Legend of the SBOM
Josh and Kurt talk about SBOMs. Not what they are, there’s plenty about that. We talk about why everyone keeps claiming they’re super important, and why we’re starting to see some people question if we really need them. SBOMs are part of a future that’s still being invented. Show Notes Questioning SBOMs Rezilion Log4j diagram David A WheelerContinue reading “Episode 312 – The Legend of the SBOM”
Episode 310 – Hayley Tsukayama from the EFF talks about privacy
Josh and Kurt talk to Hayley Tsukayama from the EFF about privacy. We all know privacy in the modern age is very complicated and difficult. Normal people don’t have many allies when it comes to privacy. The EFF has been blazing the trail for digital rights for more than 30 years! This episode has aContinue reading “Episode 310 – Hayley Tsukayama from the EFF talks about privacy”
Episode 301 – You’re holding it wrong: the importance of unlearning
Josh and Kurt talk about the epic failure that was episode 300. But this ties nicely into the topic of the day which is new ways to do things. The example is a new way to hold a controller when playing Tetris. There are always new tools and new ideas in security. Sometimes we have to abandon theContinue reading “Episode 301 – You’re holding it wrong: the importance of unlearning”
Episode 299 – Experts From A World That No Longer Exists
Josh and Kurt talk about an article about how expertise has a limited lifetime. We are all experts in something, but some of us will find our expert knowledge to be outdated eventually. We discuss what that means in the context of security and tech and disagree about how to best keep your skills up to date. ShowContinue reading “Episode 299 – Experts From A World That No Longer Exists”
Episode 298 – David A Wheeler discusses the OpenSSF
Josh and Kurt talk to David A. Wheeler about everything OpenSSF. The Open Source Security Foundation is part of the Linux Foundation, and there are 6 OpenSSF working groups. David does a great job explaining how the OpenSSF works and what the 6 working groups are doing. The working group are (in no particular order): Identifying Security Threats,Continue reading “Episode 298 – David A Wheeler discusses the OpenSSF”
Episode 296 – Is Trojan Source a vulnerability?
Josh and Kurt talk about the new Trojan Source bug. We don’t always agree on if this is a vulnerability (it’s not), but by the end we come to an agreement that ASCII is out, Unicode is in. We don’t live in a world where you can make a realistic suggestion to return to using only ASCII. ThereContinue reading “Episode 296 – Is Trojan Source a vulnerability?”
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