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For the Security News, we officially welcome Bill Swearingen to our expert panel of PSW hosts, and discuss the news including hacking shenanigans, QNAP, recovering crypto currency, Android malware, and more!
Then in a pre-recorded segment: Sonar Vulnerability Researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste conducted research on the security of Visual Studio Code — the most popular code editor out there — which was presented at DEF CON 31 in August. The pair uncovered a few ways for attackers to gain code execution on a victim's computer if they clicked on a specially crafted link or opened a malicious folder in Visual Studio Code, bypassing existing mitigations like Workspace Trust. Developers tend to trust their IDEs and do not expect such security issues to exist. As developers have access to source code and production systems, they make for very interesting targets for threat actors. Important to note is that the security concepts that the two are able to demonstrate apply not just to Visual Studio Code, but to most other code editors. This is also the story of how the researchers got an unexpected $30,000 bounty from Microsoft for these bugs, by mistake!
Segment Resources:
BLOG POSTS Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code (https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-argument-injection-in-vscode/) Securing Developer Tools: Git Integrations (https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/securing-developer-tools-git-integrations/)
CVEs CVE-2023-36742 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36742) CVE-2022-30129 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2022-30129) CVE-2021-43891 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2021-43891)
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-804
Advising The President On Cyber-Physical Resilience - Philip Venables - PSW #826
PCI 4.0 - Winn Schwartau - PSW #825
Digging Into Supply Chain Security - James McMurry - PSW #824
XZ - Backdoors and The Fragile Supply Chain - PSW #823
Are we winning? - Jason Healey - PSW #822
Securing All The Things - Josh Corman - PSW #821
Memory Safety, Re-Writing Software, and OSS Supply Chains - Omkhar Arasaratnam - PSW #820
Facing the Reality of Risk Prioritization - Bianca Lewis (BiaSciLab), Dan DeCloss - PSW #819
Social Engineering: AI & Living Off The Land - Jayson E. Street - PSW #818
Illuminating Cybersecurity Wisdom: Insights from a Thought Leader - Wendy Nather - PSW Vault
Physical Security and Social Engineering - Hacker Heroes: Toby Miller - PSW #817
You Can’t Defend What You Can’t Define - Sergey Bratus - PSW #816
Identifying Bad By Defining Good - Danny Jenkins - PSW #815
What Smart CISOs and Mature Orgs Get That Others Don’t About Cyber Compliance - Matt Coose - PSW #814
K-12 Cybersecurity - Brian Stephens - PSW #813
The Evolution of Purple Teaming - Jared Atkinson - PSW #812
Hacker Heroes - Casey Ellis - PSW Vault
Interview with Dr. Whitfield Diffie - PSW Vault
Supply Chain & Firmware Security - Xeno Kovah - PSW #811
Embracing AI - Alex Sharpe - PSW #810
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