Bill Lummis
Bill Lummis
@wblummis.bsky.social
Application security for big tech. Maryland. Father to a couple of young kids. Orioles and Ravens
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You might wonder why the graph started ticking up around ~2016. That’s when CVE began aggressively enrolling more CVE Numbering Authorities! CVE is a federated system, and CNAs are the orgs approved to issue new CVE Records. In Jan 2016 there were 23 CNAs. Today there are 559.
Spending years on an assurance feature you fail to ship, when you have 3 year release cycles, and *this* is happening?
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It's notable openai could have done this before its agents hacked huggingface et. al but they just... didn't.
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You've seen the private keys, now get the t-shirt! Any proceeds will be donated to Let's Encrypt. www.zazzle.com/win_the_cert...
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The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.
🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.
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details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.
oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...
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Security personnel around the world are on high alert following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. arstechnica.com/security/202...
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Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!
@minakimes.bsky.social question you might know about overtime rules... the ravens killed like 8 minutes on their drive, what would've happened if they'd blown the full 10 and kicked a last second field goal? Would the falcons have just been out of luck?
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This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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My theory is that going to a ball game is a habit—and losing that habit due to long periods of bad product on the field—is the most dangerous thing you can do to a franchise. Someone who doesn’t grow up going to Os games—doesn’t carry that urge into adulthood. In short: tanking tanks your brand
Maybe lockout related but also points to the team coming up very short of their projections for how much money they were going to make this season. You can get a new video board and new speakers and a DJ but at the end of the day people aren’t going to pack into the stadium to watch a bad team
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Just got an update from the pressbox PA: This FG by Loop is officially the longest in M&T Bank history, surpassing the previous mark by 6 yards.
Tyler Loop with a 64 yarder that juuuuuust squeezes in at the end of the half in wet conditions. Coming off the game-winner last week, Loop is as on fire as kickers get.
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Hey, we got a state shark. Nice.
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[Ravens] S Kyle Hamilton is being evaluated for a concussion. twitter.com/Ravens/statu...
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Replying to @micahflee.com
You can read all the details in my write-up, which also shows exactly where in this public dataset you can find all of this micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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We're hiring a new product security lead for Wikipedia! It's a new lead PM role that would steer our security engineering team and how we go about this work here at the Wikimedia Foundation. AND: it's fully remote, and open in a good number of countries. job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
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Scoop: CISA is ending six free cybersecurity assessments for critical infrastructure operators, significantly reducing the hands-on guidance it offers to those organizations even as it tries to rebuild and reassert its value: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-cy...
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“Everyone wants to tell the story about the AI that went rogue, but the AI didn’t rent the servers, design the experiment, lower the guardrails, or decide it was safe to keep running after the warning signs started flashing. Humans did that,” he argued. www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/openai-...
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Project Zero is hiring! goo.gle/3UMXQIZ Please share with anyone you think would be great for the role.
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As someone currently running for office, we need publicly financed elections and the complete overturn of Citizens United. Our political process should not be indistinguishable from a scam operation.
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Replying to @jdp.extropian.net
Basically: Linux has to compile the drivers into the kernel. They are removing support for old hardware from the 90's and early 2000's that literally nobody can find a working example of to update the driver, because if they don't remove it Mythos will modprobe and exploit it.
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Replying to @doublepulsar.com
The misaligned incentive is to get you buy new things - tools, processes, consulting - to deal with frontier AI(tm). And for CISOs to secure more budget. That does not lead to better outcomes, when orgs couldn't defend against Advanced Persistent Teenage Ransomware Groups in the first place.
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