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This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Session and cryptocurrency skepticism with Kee Jeffries! Why fork Signal? How does Session manage to decentralize? And why the cryptocurrency angle? Listen to find out! …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 819: Session, It’s all Abot the Metadata
DeepSeek has captured the world’s attention this week, with an unexpected release of the more-open AI model from China, for a reported mere $5 million training cost. While there’s lots …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: DeepSeek’s Oopsie, AI Tarpits, And Apple’s Leaks
This week, Jonathan Bennett, Doc Searls, and Jeff Massie talk about Deepseek, technical solutions to Terms of Service abuse, and more! Did you know you can watch the live recording …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 818: I Don’t Care About the Roman Empire
Cisco’s ClamAV has a heap-based buffer overflow in its OLE2 file scanning. That’s a big deal, because ClamAV is used to scan file attachments on incoming emails. All it takes …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: ClamAV, The AMD Leak, and The Unencrypted Power Grid
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Stefano Zacchiroli about Debian and Software Heritage! https://www.softwareheritage.org/ https://upsilon.cc/~zack/ Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 817: Incompatible With Reality
Up first, go check your machines for the rsync version, and your servers for an exposed rsync instance. While there are some security fixes for clients in release 3.4.0, the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Rsync, SSO, and Pentesting Mushrooms
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Simon Phipps and Stefano Maffulli about Open Source AI. Why did we need a new definition? Has it been controversial? And …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 816: Open Source AI
The mad lads at watchTowr are back with their unique blend of zany humor and impressive security research. And this time, it’s the curious case of backdoors within popular backdoors, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Backdoored Backdoors, Leaking Cameras, and The Safety Label
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal chat with Matija Šuklje about Open Source and the Law! How do Open Source projects handle liability, what should a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 815: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Claroty’s TEAM82 has a report on a new malware strain, what they’re calling IOCONTROL. It’s a Linux malware strain aimed squarely at embedded devices. One of the first targets of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: IOCONTROL, (Location) Leaking Cars, and Passkeys