About this episode

The episode discusses a new open-source tool for Linux systems and covers various security news topics.

This week, our technical segment covers a new open-source tool written by Paul (and Claude) that helps you keep your Linux systems up to date and assess supply chain risks. It's called "fettle" and is a pure Python implementation that gives you even more features than previously discussed! Then in the security news: The GodDamn Ransomware CMMC suspended Holy Microsoft Tuesday! Lessons learned Without the Internet, do we still get water? The forgotten shims More than two BIOS passwords Cracking firmware encryption with Claude 1999 called, and it wants its "Exploits" back Prompt injection for defenders Grok has your repo You're not going to outpatch AI Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-935

People in this episode

Host: Paul Asadoorian

Topics covered

• Linux systems
• supply chain risks
• open-source tools
• ransomware
• BIOS passwords
• firmware encryption
• AI in security

Keywords

• fettle
• Linux
• supply chain
• ransomware
• BIOS
• firmware encryption
• AI
• security news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Grok

Products: fettle

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