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DEF CON & AMD Sinkclose

Kyle Fox here. Sorry for being a little late this week, normally these things are written during the week they happen and then compiled into This Week in Security on Monday. But I was at DEF CON all ...
Published Aug 19, 2024
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Aug 19, 2024

In 2012 F5's own (at the time) Matt DuHarte accepted the Epic Fail Pwnie on behalf of F5 for shipping a static root SSH key. He thanked the security community for driving better software. “You got a bug with us, bring it to us. We want it.” Outstanding! I think this baller move restored a lot of credibility.