Collaborate Disseminate
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Tom Herbert about eBPF, really fast networking, what the future looks like for high performance computing and the Linux Kernel, and …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 833: Up and Over
Spectre lives. We’ve got two separate pieces of research, each finding new processor primitives that allow Spectre-style memory leaks. Before we dive into the details of the new techniques, let’s …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Lingering Spectre, Deep Fakes, and CoreAudio
Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the results are good. There are some minor potential problems …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Encrypted Messaging, NSO’s Judgement, and AI CVE DDoS
Researchers at Aikido run the Aikido Intel system, an LLM security monitor that ingests the feeds from public package repositories, and looks for anything unusual. In this case, the unusual …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: XRP Poisoned, MCP Bypassed, and More
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Allen Firstenberg about Google’s AI plans, Vibe Coding, and Open AI! What’s the deal with agentic AI, how close are we …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 830: Vibes
The sky is falling. Or more specifically, it was about to fall, according to the security community this week. The MITRE Corporation came within a hair’s breadth of running out …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: No More CVEs, 4chan, and Recall Returns
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Herbert Wolverson and Frantisek Borsik about LibreQOS, Bufferbloat, and Dave Taht’s legacy. How did Dave figure out that Bufferbloat was the problem? And how …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 829: This Machine Kills Vogons
AI continues to be used in new and exciting ways… like generating spam messages. Yes, it was inevitable, but we now have spammers using LLM to generate unique messages that …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: AI Spam, SAP, and Ivanti
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk to Stéphane Graber about LXC, Linux Containers, and Incus! Why did Incus fork from LXD, why are Fortune 500 companies embracing it, …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 828: Incus Inception
We know a bit more about the GitHub Actions supply chain attack from last month. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has been leading the charge on untangling this attack, and they’ve …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Target Coinbase, Leaking Call Records, and Microsoft Hotpatching