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robcornelius<p>When your teams <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> and cloud lead person doesn't know how to use <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a> from the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CommandLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommandLine</span></a> then there is going to be a problem sooner or later.</p><p>He was saying, "there is a vscode project you can open up, but it's not on the main branch yet. So you can't start vscode to change branches." Then he complained I didn't have <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TortoiseGit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortoiseGit</span></a> installed and asked how I managed to use git at all. He was amazed when I typed the magic incantation of `git checkout $$BRACH_NAME$$` on the keyboard and hit enter and it worked. I told him I had a paper manual on the bookshelf on git and had read it carefully. It doesn't mention a <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/gui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gui</span></a> beyond <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/gitk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gitk</span></a></p><p>FFS. How dense are these people? RTFM, It's not hard really.</p>
Harry Sintonen<p>CVE-2024-31497: Secret Key Recovery of NIST P-521 Private Keys Through Biased ECDSA Nonces in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PuTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PuTTY</span></a> Client</p><p>PuTTY client and affected components generate biased ECDSA nonces for NIST P-521 (due to first 9 bits of nonce being zero). Assuming ~60 signatures signed by the same secret key can be collected the attacker may be able to recovered the associated private key.</p><p>Affected:<br>- PuTTY 0.68 - 0.80</p><p>In addition the following software packages are also affected:<br>- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FileZilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FileZilla</span></a> 3.24.1 - 3.66.5<br>- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WinSCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WinSCP</span></a> 5.9.5 - 6.3.2<br>- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TortoiseGit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortoiseGit</span></a> 2.4.0.2 - 2.15.0<br>- <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TortoiseSVN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TortoiseSVN</span></a> 1.10.0 - 1.14.6<br>(this list may be incomplete)</p><p><a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openwall.com/lists/oss-securit</span><span class="invisible">y/2024/04/15/6</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CVE202431497" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CVE202431497</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vulnerability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vulnerability</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a></p>