Application Security Weekly (Audio)

A $10M ransom demand to Riot Games, a DoS in BIND and why there's no version 10, an unexpected refactor at Twilio, insights in Rust from the git security audit, SQL Slammer 20 years later, the SQLMap tool   We talk with Dr. David Movshovitz about There Is No Average Behavior! Segment Resources: White paper: https://www.reveal.security/lp/white-paper/   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for...

Breach disclosures from T-Mobile and PayPal, SSRF in Azure services, Google Threat Horizons report, integer overflows and more, Rust in Chromium, ML for web scanning, Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2022 Developers write code. Ideally, secure code. But what do we mean by secure code? What should secure code training look like? Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes!...

We're aren't recording this holiday week, so enjoy this ASW throwback episode! Main host Mike Shema selected this episode to share as it's still relevant to the AppSec community today.    This week, we welcome Nuno Loureiro, CEO at Probely, and Tiago Mendo, CTO at Probely, to talk about Dev(Sec)Ops Scanning Challenges & Tips! There's a plenitude of ways to do Dev(Sec)Ops, and each organization or...

Exposed secrets from CircleCI, web hackers target the auto industry, $100K bounty for making Google smart speakers listen, inspiration from Office Space, AWS making better defaults for S3, resources for learning Rust   This segment will discuss options for protecting your APIs. First, why protect them? Second, what are the options and the tradeoffs. Segment Resources: - https://stackoverflow.blog/...

How do you mature a team responsible for securing software? What are effective ways to prioritize investments? We'll discuss a set of posts on building talent, building capabilities, and what mature teams look like. Segment resources: - https://securing.dev/categories/essentials/   Metrics for building a security product, hands-on image classification attacks, a proposed PEACH framework for cloud...

FreeBSD joins the ping of death list, exploiting a SQL injection through JSON manipulation, Apple's design for iCloud encryption, attacks against machine learning systems and AIs like ChatGPT   Threat modeling is an important part of a security program, but as companies grow you will choose which features you want to threat model or become a bottleneck. What if I told you, you can have your cake a...

Android platform certs leaked, SQL injection to leaked credentials to cross-tenant access in IBM's Cloud Database, hacking cars through web-based APIs, technical and social considerations when getting into bug bounties, a brief note on memory safety in Android   Finding the balance between productivity and security is most successful when it leads to security solutions that help users rather than...

Crossing tenants with AWS AppSync, more zeros in C++ to defeat vulns, HTTP/3 connection contamination, Thinkst Quarterly review of research, building a research team   MongoDB recently announced the industry's first encrypted search scheme using breakthrough cryptography engineering called Queryable Encryption. This technology gives developers the ability to query encrypted sensitive data in a sim...

CosMiss in Azure, $70k bounty for a Pixel Lock Screen bypass, finding path traversal with Raspberry Pi-based emulators, NSA guidance on moving to memory safe languages, implementing phishing-resistant MFA, egress filtering, and how to approach code reviews   Cider Security's recently published research of the Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks acts to identify vulnerabilities to help defenders focus on a...

While APIs enable innovation, they're increasingly targeted as a pathway to data. API abuses are often carried out through automated attacks, in which a botnet floods the API with unwanted traffic—seeking vulnerable applications and unprotected data. In this discussion, Karl Triebes shares what you need to know about the automated bot threats targeting your APIs with guidance on how to protect you...

A critical OpenSSL vuln is coming this Tuesday, a SQLite vuln, Apple blogs about memory safety and bug bounties, determining a random shuffle   The Web3 ecosystem is chock full of applications and projects that have lost money (and their customers' money) due to breaches, code flaws, or outright fraud. How can security teams do a better job of protecting Web3 apps? Web3 applications (including NFT...

Learn what keeps DevOps and SecOps up at night when securing Kubernetes, container, and cloud native applications, what tactics are best for developers and application architects to consider when securing your latest cloud application and hardening your CI/CD pipeline and processes. This segment is sponsored by Qualys. Visit https://securityweekly.com/qualys to learn more about them!   Text4Shell...

Exploiting FortiOS with HTTP client headers, mishandling memory in Linux kernel Wi-Fi stack, a field guide to security communities, secure coding resources from the OpenSSF, Linux kernel exploitation Cybersecurity is a data problem. Accelerated AI enables 100 percent data visibility and faster threat detection and remediation. Find out how NVIDIA used AI to reduce cybersecurity events from 100M pe...

We talk with Akira Brand about appsec educational resources and crafting better resources for developers to learn about secure coding. Segment Resources: - www.akirabrand.com - www.wehackpurple.com - www.owasp.org - www.brightsec.com/blog   Rust arrives in the Linux Kernel, verdict in the Uber security case, overview(s) of JavaScript prototype pollution, flaws in PHP Composer and the NPM vm2 packa...

The core focus of this podcast is to provide the listeners with food for thoughts for what is required for releasing secured cloud native applications - Continuous, Multi-layer, and Multi-service analysis and focusing not only on the code, but also on the runtime and the infrastructure. - Focus on the vulnerabilities that matter. The critical, exploitable ones. Use Context. - Choose the right reme...

Applications are the most frequent external attack vector for companies. However, application security can improve only if developers either code securely or remediate existing security flaws — unfortunately, many don't receive training with proper security know-how. In this session, we will talk about the state of application security education and what you can do to secure what you sell. Segment...

Appsec places a lot of importance on secure SDLC practices, API security, integrating security tools, and collaborating with developers. What does this look like from a developer's perspective? We'll cover API security, effective ways to test code, and what appsec teams can do to help developers create secure code. This segment is sponsored by ThreatX. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatx to l...

Go releases their own curated vuln management resources, OSS-Fuzz finds command injection, Microsoft gets rid of Basic Auth in Exchange, NSA provides guidance on securing SDLC practices, reflections on pentesting, comments on e2e   Shifting left has been a buzzword in the application security space for several years now, and with good reason – making security an integral part of development is the...

We will review the primary needs for cloud security: - Guardrails against misconfiguration - Continuously Identify and Remediate Vulnerabilities in Cloud APIs, Apps, and Services - Observability, Protection, and Reporting against Compliance and Risk Policies - We will also review CNAPP -- Cloud Native Application Protection Platform -- and why companies need to take a closer look for the best clou...

The unique nature of cloud native apps, Kubernetes, and microservices based architectures introduces new risks and opportunities that require AppSec practitioners to adapt their approach to security tooling, integration with the CI/CD pipeline, and how they engage developers to fix vulnerabilities. In this episode, we'll discuss how AppSec teams can effectively manage the transition from securing...

Let's talk about adding security tools to a CI/CD, the difference between "perfect" and "good" appsec, and my upcoming book. Segment Resources: https://community.wehackpurple.com #CyberMentoringMonday on Twitter Microsoft fixes an old bounty from 2019, rewards almost $14M on bounties in the past year, and releases a security layer for Edge; Black Hat talks on bounties and desync attacks, Google's...

In today's high-tech industries, security is struggling to keep up with rapidly changing production systems and the chaos that agile development introduces into workflows. Application security (AppSec) teams are fighting an uphill battle to gain visibility and control over their environments. Rather than invest their time in critical activities, teams are overwhelmed by gaps in visibility and tool...

In our first segment, we are joined by Manish Gupt, the CEO and Co-Founder of ShiftLeft for A discussion of how the changes and advancements in static application security testing (SAST) and intelligent software composition analysis (SCA) have helped development and DevSecOps teams work better together to fix security issues faster! In the AppSec News: Multiple vulns in a smart lock, Office Macros...

Nikhil will be discussing the pain points that leaders in the application security space are facing, which can cover how software development has evolved, as well as how this has impacted development teams and security teams as well as the occurrence of shifting left. He would also like to speak to the solution he has found to this problem, specifically being that of developing a community, the Pu...

Vuln in an Atlassian Confluence app, "Dirty Dancing" in OAuth flows, security audits of sigstore and slf4j, flaws in fleet management app, conducting tabletop exercises.   Pressured by the speed of innovation, organizations are struggling to achieve the continuous web application security they need in the face of mounting threats and compliance requirements. What does it take in order for your App...