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Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video) - Targeting, Exploiting, & Defending Linux - Brandon Edwards - ASW #140
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Targeting, Exploiting, & Defending Linux - Brandon Edwards - ASW #140

Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

02/22/21

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Linux is all over the place (sometimes surprising), why is targeting it different? What types of attacks are used? How can we defend against attacks on Linux? We can incorporate recent attacks against SUDO as a timely reference.

 

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw140

Previous Episode

“Wheel” was part of the team that discovered the heap overflow vulnerability in SUDO, Baron Samedit (CVE-2021-3156), that impacted major Unix-like operating systems included Linux, macOS, AIX and Solaris. He’ll provide an overview of the vulnerability and then dive into a technical discussion of the research.

 

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This week on the Application Security News, Dependency confusion for internal packages, Chrome pulls down the Great Suspender, Microsoft highlights web shells, some strategies on scaling AppSec, & more!

 

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