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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
Fakes, SysAid, Sumo, farnetwork, CPU-Z, Google, Chat-GPT, Aaran Leyland, and More - SWN #341
Testing AI Before It Comes To Get You - Austin Carson - PSW #806
Security from a Developer's Perspective - Josh Goldberg - ASW #262
Grok, Okta, Looney Tunables, HelloKitty, Gootbot, Veeam, More News and Jason Wood - SWN #340
Security Money: The Index is Rebounding - Business Security Weekly #327
Jackie McGuire, Hank Thomas - ESW #338
Bots, Citrix, Mitre, Solarwinds, Naked Nudes, Scarlett, Aaran Leyland, and More News - SWN #339
Trustworthy AI for National Security - Kathleen Fisher - PSW #805
How Security Tools Must Evolve - Dan Kuykendall - ASW #261
Dr. Who, iLeakage, Canada, AI, Killnet, NuGet, More News and Jason Wood - SWN #338
The Enterprise Browser for the Modern Workforce - Robert Shield - BSW #326
Pumpkin Spice, VMWARE, RoundCube, Apple, Big-IP, Oktapus, Aaran Leyland and More - SWN #337
Marco Genovese, Noriko Bouffard, Chad Cardenas - ESW #337
OAuth, WebAuthn, & The Impact of Design Choices - Dan Moore - ASW #260
Goatse, Okta, Cisco, Ducktail, 0Auth, China, Spain, More News and Aaran Leyland. - SWN #336
Securing Edge Computing Use Cases by Aligning to Business Outcomes - Theresa Lanowitz, Scott Stout - BSW #325
Shane Sims, Philippe Humeau - ESW #336
Skynet, India, North Korea, China, passwords, KeePass, Cisco, AI, Aaran Leyland, More - SWN #335
Meet the Cyber Mercenary Who Can Overthrow a Government - Chris Rock - PSW #803
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