Josh Bressers

Open Source Security

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works. There's a lot of good work happening that doesn't get attention because there's no marketing department behind it, they don't have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let's focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know what's up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have...

Author

Josh Bressers

Category

Technology

Podcast website

opensourcesecurity.io

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 86 - What happens when 23 thousand certificates leak? 03.03.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the Trustico certificate incident and Let's Encrypt.  

Episode 85 - NPM ate my files 23.02.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the npm 5.7.0 debacle.

Episode 84 - Have I been pwned? 23.02.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the new password data dump from Have I been pwned?

Episode 83 - XKCD + CVE = XKCVE 21.02.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the XKCD CVE comic and a flight simulator stealing credentials.

Episode 82 - RSA, TLS, Chrome HTTP, and PCI 13.02.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about problems of textbook RSA implementations, the upcoming TLS changes in TLS, and the insecurity of http in Chrome.

Episode 81 - Autosploit, bug bounties, and the future of security 07.02.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about AutoSploit, bug bounties and fixing flaws, market forces in security, future expectations, and how humans perceive threats.

Episode 80 - GPS tracking and jamming 31.01.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about GPS metadata giving away military bases and GPS jamming as part of testing.

Episode 79 - Skyfall: please don't yell 'fire' 24.01.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Skyfall, fake reports, risk, logging, and how a civilized society functions.

Episode 78 - Risk lessons from Hawaii 16.01.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the accidental missile warning in Hawaii. We also discuss general preparedness and risk.

Episode 77 - npm and the supply chain 10.01.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the recent npm happenings. What it means for the supply chain, and we end with some thoughts on how maybe none of this matters.

Episode 76 - Meltdown aftermath 07.01.2018

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the aftermath of Meltdown. The details of the flaw are probably less interesting than what happens now.

Episode 75 - Security Planner review 19.12.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the Security Planner website. It's pretty good all things considered.

Episode 74 - Facial recognition and physical security 13.12.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about facial recognition, physical security, banking, and Amazon Alexa.

Episode 73 - Security from Santa 06.12.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about basic security metrics and security  from  Santa. Is Santa GDPR compliant?

Episode 72 - Bitcoin: It's over 9000 28.11.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Bitcoin, blockchain, and other cryptocurrencies.

Episode 71 - GitHub's Security Scanner 21.11.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about GitHub's security scanner and Linus' security email. We clarify the esoteric difference between security bugs and non security bugs. 

Episode 70 - The security of Intel ME 14.11.2017

Josh  and Kurt  talk about Intel ME, Equifax salary history, and IoT.

Episode 69 - Actionable security advice 07.11.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Amazon Key and actionable advice.

Episode 68 - Ruining the Internet 01.11.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Facebook listening to your microphone, Google Chrome certificate pinning, CAs, 152 ways to stay safe, and Kubernetes.

Episode 67 - Cyber won 24.10.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about hacking back, passwords, honeypots, and conspiracies.

Episode 66 - Objects in mirror are less terrible than they appear 15.10.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Equifax again, Kaspersky, TLS CAs, coming change, social security numbers, and Minecraft.

Episode 65 - Will aliens overthrow us before AI? 09.10.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about Apple, Equifax, passwords, AI, and aliens.

Episode 64 - Networks and Dnsmasq and IoT oh my 03.10.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about networks, Dnsmasq, IoT, and our coming security dystopian future.

Episode 63 - Shoot, Shovel, and Bury 26.09.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the Equifax breach (again) and what it will mean for all of us. Blueborne comes up, as well as #TrevorForget.

Episode 62 - All about the Equifax hack 11.09.2017

Josh  and  Kurt  talk about the Equifax breach and what it will mean for all of us.

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