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[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 58 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

AMD told MrBruh that all update communications now use HTTPS and that updates undergo signature verification. The researcher says he verified the HTTPS claim, but found only a CRC32 check on the downloaded executable, which is not considered a cryptographic signature.

This is the most shocking part. You’d think that AMD as a high-tech company has some smart people working for them. These are very basic things that any half decent programmers should get right. If at no part of the process of implementing this anyone brought up that this is not secure, that is extremely worrying and indicative of a very broken development process. It’s not like a proper cryptographic signature costs extra. This is just pure incompetence.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not surprising at all. I work in IT and security is by and large reactionary and based on scans that are often rudimentary. As far as training devs on good security practices there's next to nothing. You learn from getting your hand slapped or you don't learn at all.

[–] fubly_glaston@feddit.org 6 points 5 hours ago

As someone who is frequently the one slapping hands (and backs of heads), I can confirm this.

And still they don't learn.

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