Profile for joern

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joernchen :cute_dumpster_fire:
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@joern@threatactor.club
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About joern

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Your mom's favorite hacker!

My other account is @joernchen

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joernchen :cute_dumpster_fire: , @joern
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Boost of @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org
Simple Nomad , @simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org
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If you're a #security person aka #infosec my employer is hiring. While most of the open positions are tied to a region, it is #allremote here.

about.gitlab.com/jobs/all-jobs

If you're a #coder (mainly #Ruby, #golang, #RubyonRails, some #Python) there are open positions as well. Again, we're #allremote here.

about.gitlab.com/jobs/all-jobs

joernchen :cute_dumpster_fire: , @joern
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Boost of @wirepair@mastodon.social
wirepair , @wirepair@mastodon.social
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If you could go back and time and reverse ONE thing, which would it be?

Poll closed , 47 votes total
  • Option 1, Covid never happened
    48.94% , 23 votes
  • Option 2, LLMs / GenAI never happened
    51.06% , 24 votes

I’m slightly mad….

What stands in my way of having a nice vulnerability is the apparent inability of certain LLMs to emit \r (carriage return). For some reason they keep emitting \n (newline) instead.

joernchen :cute_dumpster_fire: , @joern
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Boost of @MrTuxracer@infosec.exchange

I found myself posting this little comic at work A LOT currently.

It's really interesting, especially in the context of (agentic) AI, how features can be bugs or even vulnerabilities and vice versa, depending on whom you ask about it. It's always the context which matters and a lot is personal preference/risk appetite of whoever is using the 'feature'.

I tend to advocate for secure defaults with an option to let anyone choose if they want to take the risk of e.g. AI 'yolo' mode.

So I just met someone in person a few days ago. They said: "Oooh you're busy looking into AI stuff lately? That's good so you wont bother $THING with vuln reports! :P"

Guess where I just found a nice vuln :trollface:

joernchen :cute_dumpster_fire: , @joern
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Boost of @hailey@hails.org
Hailey , @hailey@hails.org
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As an extra layer of protection against the npm worm currently circulating, I've uninstalled node on my dev system and cooked up this node-container-exec script to use instead. My node and npm commands now exec through node-container-exec.

It mostly transparently runs node stuff in an ephemeral node:24-trixie-slim container with podman. By default it only read-only bind mounts top-level files and directories tracked by git to avoid accidental secret leakage into the container. You can override what gets bind mounted by setting the NODE_CONTAINER_BIND and NODE_CONTAINER_BIND_RO env vars. Use direnv to do this on a per-project basis.

No, containers do not provide flawless security, but all of the npm malware I've seen so far is just script kiddy shit that a container would adequately protect against.

You might find the script useful too: gist.github.com/haileys/a4eb8a