Paul’s Security Weekly (Audio)
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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
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Special Treats - PSW #620
The Struggle Is Real - PSW #619
So Many Jokes, So Little Time - PSW #618
Save the World - PSW #617
It Gets Really Hot! - PSW #616
Nobody Move! - PSW #615
Let's Unzip the Fly - PSW #614
Well Lubricated - Paul's Security Weekly #613
Dirty Looks - Paul's Security Weekly #612
Blow Stuff Up! - Paul's Security Weekly #611
Man Purse of Dongles - Paul's Security Weekly #610
Mass Appeal - Paul's Security Weekly #609
Nerdy Love Fest - Paul's Security Weekly #608
Don't Give Amanda Your Passwords - Paul's Security Weekly #607
Off the Bridge - Paul's Security Weekly #606
Paul's Kidneys - Paul's Security Weekly #605
Two Strokes - Paul's Security Weekly #604
Billy Ray Built a Meth Lab - Paul's Security Weekly #603
It's Gonna' Be Heavy! - Paul's Security Weekly #602
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