Collaborate Disseminate
There’s another ransomware story this week, but this one comes with a special twist. If you’ve followed this column for long, you’re aware that ransomware has evolved beyond just encrypting …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Bogus Ransom, WordPress Plugins, and KASLR
This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Cody Zuschlag about the Xen project! It’s the hypervisor that runs almost everywhere. Why is it showing up in IoT devices and automotive? …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 853: Hardware Addiction; Don’t Send Help
This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp. And for their trouble, NSO was also …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Court Orders, GlassWorm, TARmageddon, and It was DNS
This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 852: Sir, This is a Wendy’s
F5 is unintentionally dabbling in releasing the source code behind their BIG-IP networking gear, announcing this week that an unknown threat actor had access to their internal vulnerability and code …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: F5, SonicWall, and the End of Windows 10
This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James’ own itch, but brings great visualization and management tools for your personal …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 851: Buckets of Money
Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance that was accessed for 58 hours through a compromised …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, and Poetic Flows
This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM to Rule Them All
This week a reader sent me a story about a CVE in Notepad++, and something isn’t quite right. The story is a DLL hijack, a technique where a legitimate program’s …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: CVSS 0, Chwoot, and Not in the Threat Model
This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be a Brick