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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
Creating Trust in Biometric Authentication for Identity Verification - Sabrina Gross - ESW #346
K-12 Cybersecurity - Brian Stephens - PSW #813
Atari 400, Gitlab, Sonicwall, Juniper, Stats, Ivanti, Sharepoint, Jason Wood and More - SWN #354
Smart Cars, Microsoft, Layoffs, PyTorch, Mandiant, SEC, Aaran Leyland, and More News - SWN #353
Communicating Technical Topics Without Being Boring - Eve Maler - ASW #269
Say Easy, Do Hard, Hiring a CISO, Part 1 - BSW #334
GenAI Threats and Concerns, Building a Security Business Around Open Source - Ev Kontsevoy, Greg Notch - ESW #345
The Evolution of Purple Teaming - Jared Atkinson - PSW #812
Jobs, QNAP, NIST, Spectral Blur, Stuxnet, Swatting, Volkswagen, Jason Wood - SWN #352
What's in Store for 2024? - ASW #268
Best Practices for Moving Sensitive Data into the Cloud - Mike Scott - BSW #333
Former US Congressman talks about Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies - Jim Langevin - SWN Vault
2023 End-of-Year Wrapup - ESW Vault
Hacker Heroes - Casey Ellis - PSW Vault
New Year's Resolution - SWN Vault
The Booming Business of Cybersecurity - Robert Herjavec - BSW Vault
HTTP RFCs Have Evolved, Breaking Into Cloud, Scaling AppSec at Netflix, & Confluence - Keith Hoodlet - ASW Vault
Doug and Russ together again, one night only. - SWN Vault
MegatronAL on Kicking in the Door to Cybersecurity - Angela Marafino - ESW Vault
Interview with Dr. Whitfield Diffie - PSW Vault
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