Coding with LLMs and agents is a generational opportunity to throw the last decade's hard won lessons on secure coding and appsec out of the window. Definitely something that trust and safety teams, threat actors and possibly even your parents are seizing on with glee when they bypass all of your policies and procedures around installing new software, data governance, validated designs, code reviews, principles of least privilege and regular security assessments. Best of luck.

I popped a Pwn2Own $40k target with a directory traversal in hypervisor

Plenty of buffer overflows there, too
https://bird.makeup/users/abantdogal/statuses/2036132328599089230

i love that we went from "zero trust" as a fundamental buzzword to "trust autonomous nondeterministic agents everywhere in your stack"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

All we wanted was a browser. All you had to do was build a browser. You had one job.

"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

#LiteLLM Compromised! LiteLLM - a popular Python Library used by a lot of AI tooling got compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine:

#SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity

👇
https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally! I did the last 6 instances, and dropped all the implementations:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy

Over the last 6 years working on this, there were 362 commits by 70 contributors. The folks with more than 1 commit were:

211 Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
22 Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn>
21 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
17 Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
12 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
4 Pranav Tyagi <pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com>
4 Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
2 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2 Marcelo Moreira <marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com>
2 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
2 Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
2 Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2 Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
2 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

Thank you to all of you! (And especially to Justin Stitt who took on the brunt of the work.)

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Apparently there's been a Citrix security update yesterday: https://support.citrix.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=CTX696300

Something changed on their website. Is there an RSS feed or URL that I can scan for security updates now?

New blog post 🚨

We're diving deeper into a privilege escalation issue (CVE-2024-4762) in Lenovo Display Control Center used across Windows enterprise environments.

👉 Read the full breakdown: https://neodyme.io/en/blog/lenovo_dcc_lpe_fwupdate/

RIP one of our favorite techniques to bypass #PaloAlto #Cortex #XDR 🤷

https://labs.infoguard.ch/posts/decrypting-and-abusing_paloalto-cortex-xdr_behavioral-rules_biocs/

"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"