Rick Hunter

@rickhunter@infosec.exchange
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Got roped into product security by sitting in the wrong cockpit at the wrong time.
It's time to re-enjoy this golden quote about me and #curl, shown in the most awesome way.
😶

Protip: When choosing a root-of-trust encryption key for a hardware secure enclave, maybe don't use the vendor's asymmetric key literally labeled "CN=DO NOT TRUST - Test PK". New scoop by @dangoodin: Secure Boot is Completely Broken on 200+ Models from 5 Big Device Makers

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

Keys were labeled “DO NOT TRUST.” Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

Ars Technica

So, let me see if I understand the current state of anti-malware from an application vendor's perspective:

* One tool's AI/ML feature hallucinates and marks your software as malware
* VirusTotal publishes their finding
* All the other anti-malware vendors see the one report in VirusTotal and copy it.
* App vendor's customers complain because their local scanner or IT department's monitoring freaks out
* The app vendor has to individually contact each anti-malware vendor, dealing with broken support portals, outdated contact info, or full email inboxes.
* A few vendors clear your app, while others won't clear their finding until other vendors clear first (insert Spiderman pointing meme)
* Repeat forever

Lasse Collin in commit message: “The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.” 😆

#jiatan #xz
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4

Update maintainer and author info. · tukaani-project/xz@77a294d

The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.

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The amazing helicopter on #Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more - https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/nasas-mars-helicopter-has-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/ "has flown a staggering 72 flights. It has spent more than two hours—128.3 minutes, to be precise—flying through the thin Martian air."
The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more

Ingenuity has spent more than two hours flying above Mars since April 2021.

Ars Technica

There's a lot of appeal to Cybellum, but their SBOM scanning tech is still immature on Windows. They consistently mis-identify Microsoft's binaries as OSS equivalents (Wine, Samba), even though those binaries are attributed and signed by MS. Hoping they get that resolved soon.

https://bird.makeup/users/thecybersechub/statuses/1729516803616117009

The Cyber Security Hub™

Cybellum achieves significant market share growth among leading medical device manufacturers https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/28/cybellum-medical-device-manufacturers-market-share/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Wagner allies react: OMG, they killed Yevgeny! You bastards!

The former catering chief’s death is an ominous sign for his cheerleaders.

POLITICO
First the moon, now this. What will Russia crash next?
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Lasse Collin in commit message: “The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.” 😆

#jiatan #xz
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4

Also #jiatan in #xz: No need to create a PR, we usually cherry-pick and *edit your commits* preserving you as the author. 😏

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/18#issuecomment-1994829182

[Feature Request]: Create Windows CI Support · Issue #18 · tukaani-project/xz

Describe the Feature Both MinGw and CMake Windows builds should be tested. Expected Complications Downloading the correct build environment dependencies could be tricky. GitHub might have some reus...

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Fix NEWS for 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. · tukaani-project/xz@780cbf2

XZ Utils. Contribute to tukaani-project/xz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@mathieui @gertvdijk I am very glad to see they appear to have their sense of perspective and humor intact!
@gertvdijk would not be surprised if he was forcibly disappeared...
@kkarhan @gertvdijk I doubt that, xz is a *lossless* compression after all.
@gertvdijk Also, removing them from the "THANKS" file! Maybe should add a NO_THANKS file instead? ;-)
@gertvdijk I hope we don't see a Rise of Skywalker style "Somehow JiaTan returned" commit in a few years
@gertvdijk I still am very curious though what team was behind it all 
@gertvdijk I would publicly state that I'm not honouring any of Jia Tan's copyrights or authorship on xz-utils, and challenge them to sue me if they want such a state of affairs to change.
@riley @gertvdijk so we can find their real name through the courts! brilliant!
@spv Or they will not get any credit. (We might need to heap praise upon how elegant the backdoor was in order to entice them to want that credit.)

@riley brb, boutta spam the internet with llm-generated jiatan-stan-spam so scammers scan the internet and think it's a popular opinion and it becomes accepted in the public consciousness

fuck did i just invent disinformation campaigns again

@gertvdijk sounds a bit wistful for the days when a state sponsored actor helped with maintenance
@gertvdijk @jwz I feel bad for Lasse Collin. Needed help, was taken advantage of, but still stepped up to deal with the fallout. We should all appreciate that dedication🙏

@gertvdijk I've chuckled reading yesterday's NEWS changes [1] for v5.6.1: "This fixed bugs in the backdoor" :-)

[1] https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=780cbf29d5a88db2b546e9b7b019c4c33ca72685

@gertvdijk Good to see that he has his GitHub back.

@gertvdijk
This commit message is also good: "Backdoors are bad for security."

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/e93e13c8b3bec925c56e0c0b675d8000a0f7f754

Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094). · tukaani-project/xz@e93e13c

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was created, it's good to remove this anyway: - The e...

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Fix NEWS for 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. · tukaani-project/xz@780cbf2

XZ Utils. Contribute to tukaani-project/xz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@gertvdijk to be found eventually buried in a landfill among Corel Linux boxes
@jwz
@gertvdijk "special author" haha