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Infosec Decoded Season 4 #46: Software Security

With Doug Spindler and @sambowne@infosec.exchange

Fri, June 7, 2024

Doug Spindler

AI whistleblowers

Deepfake detectors promise to tell truth from AI-generated fiction. Do they work?

A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence

"Not your mom's Facebook:" Inside Meta's plan to win back the youth

Sam Bowne

STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY -- Open Source Edition
Including any given PHP library has a greater than 50 percent chance of bringing a security flaw along with it.

Top vulnerabilities are:

  • Access control
  • Cross-Site Scripting
  • Sensitive data exposure
  • Injection
JavaScript apps use the most libraries, with a geometric mean of 377.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
The Linux CNA mess you didn't know about


THIS PERFECTLY POLISHED CYBERTRUCK LOOKS LIKE A REAL HAZARD ON THE ROAD
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned


OPENAI INSIDER ESTIMATES 70 PERCENT CHANCE THAT AI WILL DESTROY OR CATASTROPHICALLY HARM HUMANITY
What aren’t the OpenAI whistleblowers saying?
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration


Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

100% of cancer patients cured long-term in 'remarkable' human trial

Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes

Married-Couple Households Continue To Plummet Across US
Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline