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Open Source Security

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works. There"s a lot of good work happening that doesn"t get attention because there"s no marketing department behind it, they don"t have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let"s focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to

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Episode 449 - The CUPSpocalypse

Open Source Security ·

2024/10/07

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent CUPS issue. The vulnerability itself wasn't all that exciting, but the whole disclosure process was wild. There's a lot to talk about, many things didn't quite go as planned and it all leaked early. Let's talk about why and what it all means. Show Notes CUPS vulnerability Akamai report Wil Wheaton: being a nerd is not about what you love; it’s about how you love it

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34:48

Episode 448 - What's wrong with CISA?

Open Source Security ·

2024/09/30

Josh and Kurt talk about a few things that have recently come out of CISA. They seem to be blaming the vendors for a lot of the problems, but there's also not any actionable advice telling the vendors what they should be doing. This feels like the classic case of "just security harder". We need CISA to be leading the way funding and defining security, not blaming vendors for giving the market what it demands. Show Notes iCloud Photos Downloader CISA boss: Makers of insecure software must stop

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38:52

Episode 447 - The Tidelift 2024 open source...

Open Source Security ·

2024/09/23

Josh and Kurt talk about the 2024 Tidelift maintainer report. The report is pretty big and covers a ton of ground. We focus in a few of the statistics that should worry anyone who uses open source. We've known for a while developers are struggling, and the numbers back that up. This one feels like the old "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas". Show Notes THE 2024 TIDELIFT STATE OF THE OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINER REPORT Canadian passport Changelog Interviews #433 Pandas CVE

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Episode 446 - Researchers took over .MOBI TLD

Open Source Security ·

2024/09/16

Josh and Kurt talk about some security researchers sort of taking over the .MOBI whois server. The story is a bit sensational, but we ask if it really matters? There are a lot of interesting possible attacks, but turning something like this into a good attack is really hard, maybe impossible. The researchers presented the findings in a very reasonable way. Show Notes We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI Heinz says sorry for ketchup QR code that links to porn

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Episode 445 - EPSS with Jay Jacobs

Open Source Security ·

2024/09/09

Josh and Kurt talk to Jay Jacobs about Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS). EPSS is a new way to view vulnerabilities. It's a metric for the likelyhood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the next 30 days. Jay explains how EPSS got to where it is today, how the scoring works, and how we can start to think about including it in our larger risk equations. It's a really fun discussion. Show Notes Jay Jacobs on LinkedIn EPSS Jay's graph animation Cyentia's A Visual Exploration of Exploits in

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37:49

Episode 444 - Open Source and End of Life

Open Source Security ·

2024/09/02

Josh and Kurt talk about Chrome unexpectedly going EOL on Ubuntu 18. Keeping old things alive is really hard to do, and in open source it's becoming more common to just run the latest version rather than trying to keep old versions alive for long periods of time. Show Notes Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters' Pidgin backdoor

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34:23

Episode 443 - The Supply Chain Security Crisis

Open Source Security ·

2024/08/26

Josh and Kurt talk about a story that discusses a story from Black Hat that references supply chains. There's a ton of doom and gloom around our software supply chains and much of the advice isn't realistic. If we want to take this seriously we need to stop obsessing over the little problems and focus on some big problems. Show Notes Black Hat USA 2024: Key Takeaways from the Premier Cybersecurity Event The Reason Train Design Changed After 1948

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40:35

Episode 442 - The foundation of society, TLS...

Open Source Security ·

2024/08/19

Josh and Kurt talk about a few stories around the TLS CA certificate world. It's all pretty dire sounding. There's not a lot of organization or process in the space, and the root CAs are literally the foundation of modern society, everything needs them to function. There's not a lot of positive ideas here, it's mostly a show where Kurt explains to Josh what's going on, because Josh doesn't want to care (and will continue to ignore all of this going forward). Show Notes Firefox's Mozilla follows

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Episode 441 - Is CWE useful?

Open Source Security ·

2024/08/12

Josh and Kurt talk about CWE. What is it, and why does it matter. We cover some history, some shortcomings, and some ideas on how CWE could be used to make security a lot better. We frame the future discussion around the OWASP top 10 list. We should be putting more effort into removing removing entire classes of vulnerabilities. Show Notes CWE Episode 360 – Memory safety and the NSA Inside 22,734 Steam games

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34:36

Episode 440 - "What is open source" talk Josh gave

Open Source Security ·

2024/08/05

Josh and Kurt talk about a presentation Josh recently gave that was supposed to be about how open source works. The talk was the wrong topic for a security crowd, but there's a lot of interesting details in the questions and comments that emerged. It's clear a lot of security people don't really care about the fine details about what open source is, their primary goal is to help keep development secure. Show Notes Grassr00tz Pamela Chestek copyright paper Josh's presentation

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Episode 439 - Where are all the youth in open source?

Open Source Security ·

2024/07/29

Josh and Kurt talk about a story talking about the "graying" of open source. There doesn't seem to be many young people working on open source, but we don't really know why that is. There are many thoughts, but a better question is why should anyone get involved in open source anymore? The world has changed quite a lot since open source was created. Show Notes The graying open source community needs fresh blood OSPOs for Good 2024 Day 1 Part 1 Day 1 Part 2 Day 2 Part 1 Day 2 Part 2 FFmpeg bug

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Episode 438 - CISA's bad OSS advice vs the Whitehouse...

Open Source Security ·

2024/07/22

Josh and Kurt talk about two documents from the US government that discuss open source in very different ways. The CISA document lays out a way to measure open source, but we take issue with the idea of trying to measure which open source projects are "good". The Whitehouse on the other hand takes an approach that is very open source, get involved. Trying to measure open source isn't producing anything actionable, but getting involved is very actionable, and very much how open source works. Show

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36:50

Episode 437 - CocoPods and proper funding for open...

Open Source Security ·

2024/07/15

Josh and Kurt talk about a pretty big bug found in CocoPods ownership. We also touch on a paper that discusses the technical debt that open source should have. We discuss what the long term sustainability of open source. There aren't any good solutions for open source today, but talking about these problems is important, we have to start to understand what's going on before we can plausibly discuss solutions. If you're an open source project that needs to put things on pause, or even walk way,

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Episode 436 - OpenSSH and node-ip - it's all...

Open Source Security ·

2024/07/08

Josh and Kurt talk about the recent OpenSSH vulnerability and the node-ip project owner taking their project private. They're quasi related in the context of two open source projects handled bugs very differently. The OpenSSH bug isn't really as serious as it seems, but you still want to patch. The node-ip bug is a very different story. The relationship between users and open source developers is one experiencing more strain now than we've ever seen. It's a weird conversation and we don't have good

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38:50

Episode 435 - polyfill.io - open source is too big to...

Open Source Security ·

2024/07/01

Josh and Kurt talk about the latest polyfill.io mess. Apparently someone took over a very popular project and started to serve malware. First XZ, now this. What does it mean for open source? We don't have any answers, and it's hard to even talk about this problem because it's so big. The thing is though, even if we can't fix open source, it's here to stay. Show Notes Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites OpenSSF Scorecard

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Episode 434 - Unreported vulnerabilities and everyone...

Open Source Security ·

2024/06/24

Josh and Kurt talk about three wangles of responsibility. We start with a story about a bike theft ring, bike theft doesn't usually get any attention, but this one is special. Then we ask why it seems like everyone is getting hacked, it's because they have to tell us now. And finally we have a story about the huge number of unreported vulnerabilities in open source projects. This statistic probably affects all software, but there's some numbers for open source specifically. Show Notes The West

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Episode 433 - Should OpenSSH block misbehaving clients?

Open Source Security ·

2024/06/17

Josh and Kurt talk about a new proposal from OpenSSH to add a timeout to penalize clients misbehaving. But this then brings up the typical security conversation of "if it's not perfect we shouldn't do it". Trying new things is a good thing, even if something fails, we learn a lesson that we can use in the future. Show Notes OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior Hacker News comments

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Episode 432 - Flipper Zero with Alex Kulagin

Open Source Security ·

2024/06/10

Josh and Kurt talk to Alex Kulagin from Flipper about the Flipper Zero. It's one of the coolest hacker devices that exists on the market. We talk about what it is, how it started, what it can (and can't) do. It's a really fun conversation. Show Notes Flipper Zero Website Headphone jack radio capture Flipper Zero on Tik Tok

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Episode 431 - Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS

Open Source Security ·

2024/06/03

Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post titled "Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS". It's an interesting idea, and probably a good one. There is however a lot of baggage in this space as you'll hear in the discussion. There's no a simple solution, but this is certainly something to discuss. Show Notes Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS Hacker News discussion HSTS Section 5.1

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Episode 430 - Frozen kernel security

Open Source Security ·

2024/05/27

Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post about frozen kernels being more secure. We cover some of the history and how a frozen kernel works and discuss why they would be less secure. A frozen kernel is from when things worked very differently. What sort of changes will we see in the future? Show Notes Kurt's strange coffee Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security

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