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Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video) - Feds Have a Busy Two Weeks, British Tween Takes On TikTok, & More Facebook Woes... - PSW #691
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Feds Have a Busy Two Weeks, British Tween Takes On TikTok, & More Facebook Woes... - PSW #691

Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

04/25/21

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This week in the Security News, U.S Formally Attributes SolarWinds Attack to Russian Intelligence Agency, FBI Clears ProxyLogon Web Shells from Hundreds of Orgs, Justice Dept. Creates Task Force to Stop Ransomware Spread, Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak, and more!

 

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw691

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This conversation will introduce Wickr to the PSW listeners. Joel Wallenstrom will discuss the importance of end-to-end encrypted collaboration and communication as it relates to enterprise and federal space.

 

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We start with the article about "Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned" and explore its range of issues from ethics to securing huge, distributed software projects. It's hardly novel to point out that bad actors can attempt to introduce subtle and exploitable bugs. More generally, we've also seen impacts from package owners who have revoked their code, like NPM leftpad, or who transfer ownership to actors who later on abuse the package's reputation, as we've seen in Chrome Plugins. So, what could have been a better research focus? In the era of more pervasive fuzzing, how much should we continue to rely on people for security code review?

 

For additional resources please visit: Deceptive Diffs From Subversive Submitters - ASW #148 Featuring: John Kinsella (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlkinsel), Mike Shema (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zombie).

Read the research paper at https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf

 

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw148

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