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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #172
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Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63
As of today, TLS certificates issued by Symantec are distrusted in Firefox Nightly.
You can learn more about what this change means for websites and our release schedule for that change in our Update on the Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates post published last July by the Mozilla security team.
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Firefox Now Supports The Latest Version of Internet Security Protocol
Internet Engineering Task Force released the final version of TLS 1.3, the latest version of internet security protocol, last week. Today, Mozilla has announced that Firefox now supports TLS 1.3.
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Homebrew’s Github repo got hacked in 30 mins. How can open source projects fight supply chain attacks?
On 31st July 2018, Eric Holmes, a security researcher gained access to Homebrew’s GitHub repo easily (He documents his experience in an in-depth Medium post). Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system with well-known packages like node, git, and many more. It simplifies the installation of software on macOS.
The Homebrew repository contains its recently elevated scopes. Eric gained access to git push on Homebrew/brew and Homebrew/homebrew-core. He was able to invade and make his first commit into Homebrew’s GitHub repo within 30 minutes.
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Security updates for Tuesday
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Ex-NSA staffer demonstrates malware bypassing security checks in High Sierra
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