Mike Larkin, Author at Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/author/mike-larkin/ The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:07:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png Mike Larkin, Author at Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/author/mike-larkin/ 32 32 133346385 An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections https://securityboulevard.com/2024/03/an-accidental-discovery-of-a-backdoor-likely-prevented-thousands-of-infections/ https://securityboulevard.com/2024/03/an-accidental-discovery-of-a-backdoor-likely-prevented-thousands-of-infections/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:07:28 +0000 https://www.deepfactor.io/?p=5354 ... Read more »

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]]> https://securityboulevard.com/2024/03/an-accidental-discovery-of-a-backdoor-likely-prevented-thousands-of-infections/feed/ 0 2013523 Back from Hacker Summer Camp 2023: One CTO’s Experience https://securityboulevard.com/2023/08/back-from-hacker-summer-camp-2023-one-ctos-experience/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:02:10 +0000 https://www.deepfactor.io/?p=4308 ... Read more »

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]]> 1986852 Back from Hacker Summer Camp 2023: One CTO’s Experience https://securityboulevard.com/2023/08/back-from-hacker-summer-camp-2023-one-ctos-experience-2/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:02:10 +0000 https://deepfactor.local/?p=4308 ... Read more »

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]]> 1999318 Digging Into An Interesting New CVE https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/digging-into-an-interesting-new-cve/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:05:23 +0000 https://www.deepfactor.io/?p=3987 CVE-2023-38408, discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), describes an RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability made possible by an unwanted interaction between OpenSSH’s ssh-agent executable, the dlopen() and dlclose() functions used by a process to load shared libraries, and various other deficiencies in libraries present (or installable) in many Linux distributions. What is the... Read more »

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]]> 1982361 Digging Into An Interesting New CVE https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/digging-into-an-interesting-new-cve-2/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:05:23 +0000 https://deepfactor.local/?p=3987 ... Read more »

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]]> 1999322 Another Bug Caused by Memory Unsafe String APIs https://securityboulevard.com/2022/09/another-bug-caused-by-memory-unsafe-string-apis/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:41:25 +0000 https://www.deepfactor.io/?p=1895 A recent vulnerability came across my radar earlier this week. The description was vague but said: “There is a stack overflow vulnerability caused by strcpy.” This API first appeared in UNIX in the 1970s. There are many other APIs that don’t exhibit the same memory unsafety that these APIs do, but for some reason, we... Read more »

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]]> 1966256 CTO Observations from Hacker Summer Camp 2022 https://securityboulevard.com/2022/08/cto-observations-from-hacker-summer-camp-2022/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:30:49 +0000 https://www.deepfactor.io/?p=1710 BSides LV / Black Hat 25 / DEF CON 30 (aka Hacker Summer Camp 2022) in Las Vegas is now in the rear-view mirror. In addition to news that continues to come out, especially around DEF CON, I wanted to highlight some sessions I attended across the three conferences and offer some perspectives.    BSides... Read more »

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