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
Incident Response Stories - Bill Swearingen - PSW #793
Post-Breach: The Hardening Continues - Sean Metcalf - PSW #792
Security Certification - Rohit Misuriya, Sumit Siddharth - PSW #791
Getting Control Of Your Security Data Pipeline - JP Bourget - PSW #790
Thoughts From A Security Legend - Dan Geer - PSW Vault
Adversary Emulation w/ Carlos Perez - PSW #789
Penetration Testing Stories w/ Emilie St-Pierre - PSW #788
Interview with Bill Cheswick - PSW VAULT
L0pht Heavy Industries Panel - PSW Vault
Crazy Chronicles: Hilarious Penetration Tester Stories & Unbelievable Security News - PSW #787
Generative AI Security Implications - Liam Mayron - PSW #786
PSW #785 - Kevin Johnson
PSW #784 - Paula Januszkiewicz
PSW #783 - Rob Fuller
PSW #782 - Kaitlyn Handelman
PSW #781 - Ivan Arce
PSW #780 - Billy Boatright
PSW #779 - Sin Ming Loo
PSW #778 - Philippe Laulheret
PSW #777 - Nico Waisman
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