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Posted by Dave Aitel via Dailydave on Nov 02

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It's impossible not to notice that we live in an age of technological
wonders, stretching back to the primitive hominids who dared to ask "Why?"
but also continually accelerating and pulling everything apart while it
does, in the exact same manner as the Universe at large. It is why all the
hackers you know are invested so heavily in Deep Learning right now, as if
someone got on a megaphone at Chaos...

Posted by Dave Aitel via Dailydave on Oct 31

The Anatomy of Compromise

One of my demented hobbies is watching old infosec talks and then seeing
how well they hold up to modern times. Recently I excavated Metlstorm's
2017 BSides Canberra
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgvP9UB9GI&list=TLGGvAY1CcIr-AcyNjEwMjAyNA>
talk on "How people get hacked" - a pretty generic topic that gives a lot
of room for opinion, and one a lot of people have opined on, but the talk
itself...

Posted by Dave Aitel via Dailydave on Oct 10

I spent some time watching all the Grace Hopper videos on the youtubes, as
I prepared for what up North is a horrible storm, but here in Miami is, so
far, a breezy and clear day. You can hear her talk about how subroutines
used to be literal handwritten pages of instructions in notebooks. When you
wanted SIN or COS you would go over to whoever had the notebook with the
working version, and copy it out into your code.

It was this experience that...

Posted by Dave Aitel via Dailydave on Sep 30

As you know, humans like to invent comfort words. One of my favorites is
"luck". The theory being that yes, the universe has dice, but they are
loaded in your favor. Properly used, these words are a spell - they allow
us to have courage when a sober mind would quail. But when you become a
professional, you have to give up these crutches. Only poor poker players
believe in "luck".

In computer science, and especially in machine...

Posted by Adrian Sanabria via Dailydave on Sep 12

We've been talking about and giving "Beyond the SBOM" presentations for a
while now, but to your point, I don't see anyone actually doing it.

If Solarwinds said "here's a script that will lock down your host firewall
to just the outbound access our tools need to update themselves", that
would be amazing, and would have saved everyone some time and trouble a few
years ago.

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And Biden's EO...

Posted by Isaac Dawson via Dailydave on Sep 12

Well this is rather timely! Although I'm not sure using an LLM for the
behavioral aspect is entirely necessary. I've been working on an
experimental system that does just what you talk about for dependencies (
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dependency_scanning/experiment_libbehave_dependency.html,
pre-alpha!). My solution uses static analysis because I'm a fan of
determinism.

Snark aside, looking at behaviors...

Posted by Dave Aitel via Dailydave on Sep 11

People doing software security often use LLMs more as orchestrators than
anything else. But there's so many more complicated ways to use them in our
space coming down the pipe. Obviously the next evolution of SBOMs
<https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-sbom-rama> is that
they represent not just what is contained in the code as some static tree
of library dependencies, but also what that code does in a summary fashion...