For most projects, overriding every single transitive dependencies to be pinned is impractical.
Instead, for those using npm, I'd highly suggest using `npm ci` both locally and of course on CI/CD. This will ensure the (transitive) dependencies pinned in the lockfile are used.
TIL on the `npm install --before="$(date -v -1d)"` trick; thanks for that! Using that to update (transitive) dependencies should be really helpful.
For those using GitHub Actions, I'd also recommend taking advantage of the new dependabot cooldown feature to reduce the likelihood of an incident. Also make sure to pin all GitHub Action dependencies to a sha and enforce that at the GitHub repo/account level.
For GitHub Actions, i found http://safedep.io/ to be helpful, not only it guard against known attacks, but also it has its own malware detection engine.
I’m pretty surprised that Anthropic can directly impact the infra for AWS Bedrock as this article suggests. That goes against AWSs commitments. I’m sure the same is true for Google Vertex but I haven’t digged in there from a compliance perspective before.
> Our own privacy practices also created challenges in investigating reports. Our internal privacy and security controls limit how and when engineers can access user interactions with Claude, in particular when those interactions are not reported to us as feedback.
Ok makes sense and glad to hear
> It remains particularly helpful for users to continue to send us their feedback directly. You can use the /bug command in Claude Code
Ok makes sense and I’d expect that a human can then see the context in that case although I hope it is still very explicit to the end user (I’m not a Claude Code user so I cannot comment)
> or you can use the "thumbs down" button in the Claude apps to do so
This is pretty concerning. I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.
> We don't directly manage AWS Bedrock deployments today, those are managed by AWS.
That was my understanding before this article. But the article is pretty clear that these were "infrastructure bugs" and the one related to AWS Bedrock specifically says it was because "requests were misrouted to servers". If Anthropic doesn't manage the AWS Bedrock deployments, how could it be impacting the load balancer?
> This is pretty concerning. I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.
When you click "thumbs down" you get the message "Submitting this report will send the entire current conversation to Anthropic for future improvements to our models." before you submit the report, I'd consider that pretty explicit.
I can't do that at the moment but the GenAIScript project repo has a good plug and play version that I built upon. In my opinion agent Typescript classes that return structured data tied to interfaces/types with their own memory is where it's at. Also been experimenting with a state machine class to hot potato the output between an agent that judges the results and the worker agent until satisfied.
It appears to be back now. Many users across our company were unable to load github.com at all from ~14:43 to ~14:50 UTC. https://www.githubstatus.com/ is finally admitting to "degraded" performance
Impressive finds! As you allude to in your post, it seems very likely similar flaws still exist in the wild. I’d imagine we are going to see a consistent stream of XPC related CVEs unless Apple is redesigning its approach to hardening those services.
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> The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed.
How does this work from a security perspective? Given the lack of apparent entropy can’t a malicious actor conceivably enter the correct phrase before the good actor?
The PAKE algorithm lets you spend an interactive roundtrip to buy a full-strength key out of a weak shared secret. An attacker can attempt to guess the passphrase, and their chances are non-zero (one out of 65536 with the default configuration), but when they guess wrong, the whole protocol shuts down, and the real participants have to start over again, with a new code. So the only way for the attacker to win is for you to restart over and over again until they get lucky. Kinda self-limiting that way :).
An attack on the PAKE would involve the attacker seeing the secret value as it was transferred to the recipient and then beating the recipient to the handshake. So there is security value in being prompt in putting in the secret value at the receiving end.
That is as opposed to sending a public key or key fingerprint. In that case there would be little value to the attacker in seeing the transfer. They would have to MITM the transfer of the key itself. If you wanted to prevent the attacker from sending bogus files you would also have to transfer some sort of signing key.
So a short, time limited, secret vs a longer public value.
“An important property is that an eavesdropper or man-in-the-middle cannot obtain enough information to be able to brute-force guess a password without further interactions with the parties for each (few) guesses. This means that strong security can be obtained using weak passwords.”
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Even regular recruiters, who aren't running a high-touch interview on top of selling matchmaking on top of a candidate network, charge more than that!
No connection to either company, but for what it’s worth I’d never in a million years consider Windmill and this product to be direct competitors.
We’ve had a lot of pain with celery and Redis over the years and Hatchet seems to be a pretty compelling alternative. I’d want to see the codebase stabilize a bit before seriously considering it though. And frankly I don’t see a viable path to real commercialization for them so I’d only consider it if everything you needed really was MIT licensed.
Windmill is super interesting but I view it as the next evolution of something like Zapier. Having a large corpus of templates and integrations is the power of that type of product. I understand that under the hood it is a similar paradigm, but the market positioning is rightfully night and day. And I also do see a path to real commercialization of the Windmill product because of the above.
Windmill is used by large enterprises to run critical jobs that require a predefined amount of resources and can run for months if needed, stream their logs, written in code at scale with upmost reliability, throughput and lowest overhead. The only insight from Zapier is how easy it is to develop new workflows.
I understand our positioning is not clear on our landing (and we are working on it), but my read of hatched is that what they put forward is mostly a durable execution engine for arbitrary code in python/typescript on a fleet of managed workers, which is exactly what Windmill is. We are profitable and probably wouldn't if we were MIT licensed with no enterprise features.
From reading their documentation, the implementation is extremely similar, you define workflows as code ahead of time, and then the engine make sure to have them progress reliably on your fleet of workers (one of our customer has 600 workers deployed on edge environments). There are a few minor differences, we implement the workers as generic rust binary that pull the workflows, so you never have to redeploy them to test and deploy new workflows, whereas they have developed SDK for each languages to allow you to define your own deployable workers (which is more similar to Inngest/Temporal). Also we use polling and REST instead of gRPC for communications between workers and servers.
Instead, for those using npm, I'd highly suggest using `npm ci` both locally and of course on CI/CD. This will ensure the (transitive) dependencies pinned in the lockfile are used.
TIL on the `npm install --before="$(date -v -1d)"` trick; thanks for that! Using that to update (transitive) dependencies should be really helpful.
For those using GitHub Actions, I'd also recommend taking advantage of the new dependabot cooldown feature to reduce the likelihood of an incident. Also make sure to pin all GitHub Action dependencies to a sha and enforce that at the GitHub repo/account level.