Collaborate Disseminate
We finally have some answers about the Windows IPv6 vulnerability — and a Proof of Concept! The patch was a single change in the Windows TCP/IP driver’s Ipv6pProcessOptions(), now calling …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Rest of the IPv6 Story, CVE Hunting, and Hacking the TSA
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell chat with Carl Richell about System 76, COSMIC, Wayland, Rust and more! What was the “last straw” that convinced System 76 to write …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 798: Building the Rust Desktop with COSMIC
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t rm -r Up the Tree
You may have heard about a very large data breach, exposing the Social Security numbers of three billion individuals. Now hang on. Social Security numbers are a particularly American data …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew! That’s the missing package manager for macOS; and Workbrew, the commercial offering built on …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More of a Whopper Guy
You may have heard some scary news about RISC-V CPUs. There’s good news, and bad news, and the whole thing is a bit of a cautionary tale. GhostWrite is a …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: GhostWrite, Localhost, and More
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with Olaf Kock and Dave Nebinger about Liferay! That’s a Java project that started as an implementation of a web portal, and …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals
First up this week is the story of EvilVideo, a clever telegram exploit that disguises an APK as a video file. The earliest record we have of this exploit is …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: EvilVideo, Crowdstrike, and InSecure Boot
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Jay Khatri, the co-founder of Highlight.io. That’s a web application monitoring tool that can help you troubleshoot performance problems, find bugs, …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 793: Keeping an Eye on Things with Hilight.io
In the past week, AT&T has announced an absolutely massive data breach. This is sort of a multi-layered story, but it gives me an opportunity to use my favorite piece …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Snowflake, The CVD Tension, and Kaspersky’s Exit — And Breaking BSOD