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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
The company published an advisory on Saturday and urged all customers who are running affected versions of the software to install the hotfix as quickly as possible. The bug affects versions 7.4.5 and 7.4.6 of FortiClient EMS.
It’s been quite a week in security news, and Dennis and Lindsey dig into the continued effects of the axios supply chain attack, the incredibly fast adoption of AI tools for vulnerability research and what that means for software makers and defenders, and what the future holds for vulnerability research and exploit development. Security Theater […]
Dennis and Lindsey dig into what we know do far about the supply chain attack on the axios NPM package, including how the attacker gained access to the maintainer’s account, the window of exposure for the malicious packages, the behavior of the RAT that’s installed on victims’ machines, and what the downstream effects may be.
Axios is a dependency in nearly 80% of all cloud and code environments and sees approximately 100 million downloads per week.
The bug is a command injection issue and lies in the way that Codex processed GitHub branch names during the execution of tasks.
Fresh off the plane from RSA, Dennis fills Lindsey in on everything she missed (and didn’t miss) at this year’s conference (0:23), from the insanity of the expo floor (4:06) to the appearance of a line of synchronized robots or spacemen or something (8:18), to some very interesting conversations about the hyper speed of AI […]
