Paul’s Security Weekly (Audio)
Technology
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
Supply Chain & Firmware Security - Xeno Kovah - PSW #811
Embracing AI - Alex Sharpe - PSW #810
Holiday Extravaganza - Supply Chain, Hardware Hacking, Vulnerabilities, News - PSW #809
AI & LLMs - Josh More, Matthew Carpenter - PSW #808
Interview with Brian Snow - PSW Vault
3 Layers of App Security to Keep Hackers Out, Let Customers In - Aviad Mizrachi - PSW #807
Testing AI Before It Comes To Get You - Austin Carson - PSW #806
Trustworthy AI for National Security - Kathleen Fisher - PSW #805
Meet the Cyber Mercenary Who Can Overthrow a Government - Chris Rock - PSW #803
Getting Started With Reverse Engineering Hardware - PSW #802
Malware Trends - Anuj Soni - PSW #801
The Right Skills For The Job - Kayla Williams - PSW #800
AI Attacks and LLM Security Matters - Nathan Hamiel - PSW #799
Ransomware Infection Vectors - Ryan Chapman - PSW #798
Interview with Dr. Gene Spafford - Eugene Spafford - PSW Vault
Incident Response: Clouds, SMBs, & More! - Amanda Berlin - PSW #797
Managing Bug Bounty Programs At Scale - Dr. Jared DeMott - PSW #796
Defending Public Infrastructure While At War - Antranig Vartanian - PSW #795
Incident Response Readiness - Gerard Johansen - PSW #794
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