Looking at use cases and abuse cases of Microsoft's Recall feature, examples of hacking web APIs, CISA's secure design pledge, what we look for in CVEs, a nod to PHP's history, and more!
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Mike Shema
- Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs | Windows Experience Blog
- Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
- Taking Down Big Laundry – Slug Security
- Risky Biz News: The Linux CNA mess
How do we want to use CVEs? What makes them useful?
- Microsoft overhaul treats security as ‘top priority’ after a series of failures – The Verge
- Secure by Design Pledge | CISA
Goals
- MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA)
- DEFAULT PASSWORDS
- REDUCING ENTIRE CLASSES OF VULNERABILITY
- SECURITY PATCHES
- VULNERABILITY DISCLOSURE POLICY
- CVES
- EVIDENCE OF INTRUSIONS
- Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2 – The Go Programming Language
Example of secure design considerations
- Real World Cryptography Conference 2024 | NCC Group Research Blog
“Making Signal Messenger Post Quantum / Making Encrypted Messaging Post Quantum” is another example of secure design.
- [HISTORY] Announce: Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)
Announcing the Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0. on June 8, 1995.
John Kinsella
- Intel whitepaper: Hardware Features and Behavior Related to Speculative Execution
Since we first learned of speculative execution bugs several years ago, there have been many attempts to mitigate. Intel's put a paper together with their hardware capabilities in this space
- 20% of Rust Crates use Unsafe keyword
In Rust, Unsafe is a sudo-type of thing - allowing a programmer to do things which they language attempts to prevent - accessing out-of-scope memory.
I translate this as 20% of Rust programmers are lazy, or don't fully understand the language.
- Path traversal in tar extract in intel cve-bin-tool
In celebration of return of the news, a ../.. just for Mike.
- Netflix hits $1M bug bounty payout
It's the new unicorn.
