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1. Buy expired NPM maintainer email domains. 2. Re-create maintainer emails 3. Take over packages 4. Submit legitimate security patches that include package.json version bumps to malicious dependency you pushed 5. Enjoy world domination.Lance R. Vick ( @lrvick@mastodon.social ) (@lrvick)Mon, 09 May 2022 21:20 +0000
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*sigh* 🥃
Jason Kikta 🌻 (@kikta)Mon, 09 May 2022 17:29 +0000
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The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this …
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If you need to verify the ID of the OAuth application, check the number at the end of the url like github.com/orgs/<org>/policies/applications/145909 coming from the github.com/organizations/<org>/settings/oauth_application_policy page.
chrismo (@the_chrismo)Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:42 +0000
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spent way too long making this
Alex Strook ⚡🐭 (@AlexStrook)Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:12 +0000
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Setup some MFA stuff last night and the amount of this is so annoying:
Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:00 +0000
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Lightspin obtains credentials to an internal AWS service by exploiting a local file read vulnerability on the RDS EC2 instance using the log_fdw extension.

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🧠 Reminder that "beefstew" is not a good password. It is not Str0g4|\|off
Chris Heilmann (@codepo8)Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:57 +0000
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My bank: 🏦: I need you to jump through security hurdles to keep your money safe. Me: 🙋♀️: No problem! Cybersecurity is a process, not a destination! Also My Bank: 🏦: Whoa, whoa, whoa. 21 digit password? Let's not get crazy. Also, I have never seen the character "&" in my life.Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu)Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:59 +0000
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📢 On June 23rd, I will be presenting in @tweakers Summit 2022: How did the Log4j crew survive Log4shell? tweakers.net/partners/devsu… Game on! 🎮Volkan Yazıcı (@yazicivo)Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:06 +0000
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Wow, @Zoom's decision to bypass the security settings of their customers in order to boost its marketplace demand is a bold move, to put it mildly. CISOs discovering this after the fact will be fuming.Tobie Langel (@tobie)Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:33 +0000
Automagically Auditing GitHub (Actions) Security using OpenSSF Scorecards (6 mins read).

How to use the OpenSSF Scorecards GitHub Action to audit your GitHub and GitHub Actions configuration, and a breakdown of some of the issues raised by it.
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Since #Log4j you've heard how OSS vulns impact most orgs, how OSS is underfunded & we need to do more to help, but did you know OSS security has improved drastically in the last 4 years? In 2017, 35% of OSS libs used had a known flaw. In 2022 it's < 10% veracode.com/state-of-softw…Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond)Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:36 GMT
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Kelsey Hightower joins us from Google to discuss the question "Can DevSecOps be damaging?"

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Eight years later, and this is now a thing 😃 gov.uk/security.txt No monetary reward (sadly, but I get why).Post details
Should GOV.UK Run A Bug Bounty? shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=9760Terence Eden (@edent)Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:05 GMT
Terence Eden (@edent)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 07:43 GMT
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Federal government memo: "Consistent with the practices outlined in SP 800-63B, agencies must remove password policies that require special characters and regular password rotation from all systems within one year of the issuance of this memorandum." Yes!Post details
The federal government just dropped a 29-pg memo laying out its "transition to a zero trust approach" A few surprises: ✴️ there's more in it than just zero-trust ✴️ it goes beyond what most orgs do today I read the whole thing so you don't have to... bastionzero.com/blog/i-read-th…Sharon Goldberg (@goldbe)Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:52 GMT
Simon Willison (@simonw)Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:21 GMT
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Please do not teach the computers how to recognize us even with most of our facial features covered.
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iOS 15.4 beta has a new ‘Use Face ID with a Mask’ option and the masked FaceID icon is absolutely adorable.
Sebastiaan de With (@sdw)Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:38 GMT
Renaissance Mandalorian (@indik)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 03:42 GMT
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Over 20 thousand servers have their iLO exposed to the internet, many are outdated and vulnerable i5c.us/d28276SANS ISC (@sans_isc)Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:20 GMT
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"Securing the (open source) software supply chain" naturally focuses attention "upstream" in the supply chain. And there is so much to do _downstream_ in how we assemble and operate software more securely. Improvements downstream don't need to wait on investments upstream.Matthew S. Wilson (msw) (@_msw_)Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:18 GMT
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Imagine how much worse this could have been (and how long it would have gone undetected) if the change was siphoning AWS credentials instead of graffiti in the terminal.
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Looks like the AWS CDK is broken because the dependency on colors.js which has a totally hilarious bug: github.com/aws/aws-cdk/is… It shows "LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY".Soenke Ruempler (@s0enke)Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:43 GMT
Aidan W Steele (@__steele)Sun, 09 Jan 2022 23:22 GMT
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Looks like the AWS CDK is broken because the dependency on colors.js which has a totally hilarious bug: github.com/aws/aws-cdk/is… It shows "LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY".Soenke Ruempler (@s0enke)Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:43 GMT
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One might say they have bad ApeSec
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look i know all this shit sucks beyond comprehension but “did not take proper precautions when moving his ape” is just an objectively funny sentence.
Yeet Takeshi (@alex_navarro)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:11 GMT
Ed Zitron (@edzitron)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:13 GMT
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look i know all this shit sucks beyond comprehension but “did not take proper precautions when moving his ape” is just an objectively funny sentence.
Yeet Takeshi (@alex_navarro)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:11 GMT
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Implementors use the terms interchangeably unless they are making distinctions. Even at a TLS working group meeting, no-one will care if you say SSL. Also it's basically always SSL certs, no-one says TLS certs. TLS "Well actually"ing is just idiotic gatekeeping.
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It's name is TLS (Transport Layer Security). It's called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). It is network encryption. It's name is called Haddock's Eyes.twitter.com/jpmens/status/…Robᵉʳᵗ Graham (@ErrataRob)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:20 GMT
Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:23 GMT
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Just use an npm package.
Den Delimarsky (@DennisCode)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 05:17 GMT
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Thank you, @awscloud. aws.amazon.com/security/secur…Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:57 GMT
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I wanted a way to monitor trending CVEs on Twitter So I built CVEtrends.com - data comes from Twitter + NIST NVD APIs - back-end: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, and Redis - front-end: React + Bootstrap It's a quick MVP, but let me know your thoughts and feedback...Simon J. Bell (@SimonByte)Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:53 GMT
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Just had to inform a large UK professional body that maybe using Tomcat 6.0.45 (6.x was EOL'd 5 years ago) on their public website maybe isn't a great idea
Russell Howe (@rhowe212)Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:34 GMT
What are folks' thoughts about using a password manager i.e. KeepassXC to store TOTP data (not the recovery codes) for MFA? My initial thought is that this sounds like a Bad Idea, but not sure if I'm being a bit too paranoid?
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Good news: Log4j is the only library you use that’s been trivially vulnerable for about a decade.haroon meer (@haroonmeer)Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:12 GMT