Collaborate Disseminate
The xz backdoor is naturally still the top story of the week. If you need a refresher, see our previous coverage. As expected, some very talented reverse engineers have gone …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: XZ, ATT, and Letters of Marque
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles sit down with Joshua Colp to talk about Asterisk! That’s the Open Source phone system software you already interact with without realizing it. …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 777: Asterisk — Wait, Faxes?
In breaking news that dropped just after our weekly security column went live, a backdoor has been discovered in the xz package, that could potentially compromise SSH logins on Linux …read more Continue reading Security Alert: Potential SSH Backdoor Via Liblzma
The Linux command wall is a hold-over from the way Unix machines used to be used. It’s an abbreviation of Write to ALL, and it was first included in AT&T …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Peering Through the Wall, Apple’s GoFetch, and SHA-256
This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps sit down with Simon Kelley to talk about Dnsmasq! That’s a piece of software that was first built to get a laptop online …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 776: Dnsmasq, Making the Internet Work Since 1999
Here’s a fun thought experiment. UDP packets can be sent with an arbitrary source IP and port, so you can send a packet to one server, and could aim the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Loop DOS, Flipper Responds, and More!
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell chat with Ben Meadors and Adam McQuilkin to talk about what’s new with Meshtastic! There’s a lot. To start with, your favorite podcast …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 775: Meshtastic Central
OK, that headline is a bit of a cheap shot. But if you run the curl binary that Apple ships, you’re in for a surprise if you happen to use …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Apple Backdoors Curl, Tor’s New Bridge, and GhostRace
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Herbert Wolverson about Rust! Is it really worth the hype? Should you have written that in Rust? What’s up with “if let some” anyways? …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 774: Let’s Get Rusty
The temptation to “take the money and run” was apparently too much for the leadership of the AlphV ransomware crime ring. You may have heard of this group as being …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Blame the Feds, Emergency Patches, and the DMA