Application Security Weekly (Audio)

0-day vulnerabilities pose a high risk because cybercriminals race to exploit them and vulnerable systems are exposed until a patch is issued & installed. These types of software vulnerabilities can be found through continuous detection but even then may not always have a patch available. It's important for software teams to set up tools that continually look for these types of flaws, as well as d...

This week in the AppSec News: Apple introduces Lockdown Mode, PyPI hits 2FA trouble, cataloging cloud vulns, practical attacks on ML, NIST's post-quantum algorithms, & more!   Appsec starts with the premise that we need to build secure code, but it also has to be able to recommend effective practices and tools that help developers. This also means appsec teams need to work with developers to creat...

Both GraphQL and template engines have the potential for injection attacks, from potentially exposing data due to weak authorization in APIs to the slew of OGNL-related vulns in Java this past year. We take a look at both of these technologies in order to understand the similarities in what could go wrong, while also examining the differences in how each one influences modern application architect...

This week in the AppSec News: SynLapse shows shell injection via ODBC, Java deserialization example, MFA for Ruby Gems ecosystem, simple flaws in firmware, the decade-long journey of a Safari vuln, & more!   IE has gone to 11 and is no more. There's some notable history related to IE11 and bug bounty programs. In 2008, Katie Moussouris and others from Microsoft announced their vulnerability disclo...

HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends, Career Advice and Professional Development, Active Exploitation of Confluence CVE-2022-26134 Seamlessly Connect & Protect Entire IT Ecosystem The new business reality is that everything is connected, and everyone is vulnerable. In today's world, security resilience is imperative, and Cisco believes it requires an open, unified securit...

Developers want bug-free code -- it frees up their time and is easier to maintain. They want secure code for the same reasons. Matias Madou joins to talk about how the definition of secure coding varies among developers and appsec teams, why it's important to understand those perspectives, and how training is just one step towards building a security culture. This week in the AppSec News: OWASP To...

This week, in the first segment, Brian Glas answers the questions surrounding the next generations of AppSec professionals: What does it look like to try teaching cybersecurity at an undergraduate level? What are the goals and challenges faced when trying to help future generations learn what they need to know to contribute to this industry? Then, in the AppSec News: Typosquatting spreads to Rust,...

This week, Mike and John kick off the show with an interview of Christoph Nagy, the CEO of SecurityBridge! Then, in the AppSec News: Secure coding practices and smart contracts, lessons from the Heroku breach, Real World Crypto conference highlights, and an entertaining bug in Google Docs, & more! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.faceboo...

This week, Mike and John interview Lynn Marks, Product Manager at Imperva, & discuss Bad Bots: The Automated Threat Targeting Your Websites, Apps, & APIs! In the AppSec News: ExtraReplica in Azure, Chrome disfavors document.domain, appsec presentations highlighted in the latest Thinkst Quarterly, Nimbuspwn Vuln in Linux, & more! This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.co...

How should we empower developers to embrace the NIST software development practices? Because from here on out, developers need to view themselves as the front lines of defense for the end-consumer. A more secure-aware developer leads to a more-protected consumer. Dr. Wang will offer her perspectives! In the AppSec News: Java's ECDSA implementation is all for nought, writing a modern Linux kernel R...

We can create top 10 lists and we can count vulns that we find with scanners and pen tests, but those aren't effective metrics for understanding and improving an appsec program. So, what should we focus on? How do we avoid the trap of focusing on the metrics that are easy to gather and shift to metrics that have clear ways that teams can influence them? In the AppSec News: OAuth tokens compromised...

The zero trust approach can be applied to almost every technology choice in the modern enterprise, and Kubernetes is no exception. For Kubernetes network security particularly, adopting a zero trust model involves some radical changes, including moving from a security perimeter defined by firewalls, IP addresses, and cluster boundaries to a granular approach that treats the network itself as adver...

Making a positive impact to how we package software to make developer's lives easier in how they have to manage security. FORCEDENTRY implications for the BlastDoor sandbox, Spring RCE, Zlib flaw resurfaces, security for startups, verifying Rust models, two HTML parsers lead to one flaw!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw191 Segment Resources: - https://app.soos.io/demo - https://soos.io...

Developers ignore security issues. But can we really blame them? After all, security folks bombard them with an endless stream of issues that need to be addressed with no way for them to separate what's actually critical from all the noise, all while they are expected to release software more frequently and faster than ever before. It makes sense why developers view security as something that just...

This week in the AppSec News: A great escape isn't always as great as it sounds, Solana cryptocurrency logic isn't always as great as intended, some people's idea of "peace" isn't that great at all, and some great security suggestions for package maintainers. - Past research such as JNDI Injection, Unsafe deserialization, Struts RCEs - OSS security: CodeQL, Dependabot, collaboration between resear...

Cybersecurity is a large and often complex domain, traditionally focused on the infrastructure and general information security, with little or no attention to Application Security. Security providers usually tack-on AppSec services to their existing menu of offering without understanding the domain, and their team of professionals have little or no experience with software development or inner wo...

As the volume of API traffic increases, it becomes a greater threat to an organization's sensitive data. Motivated attackers will increasingly target APIs as the pathway to the underlying infrastructure and database. Imperva API Security is a new product that delivers rapid API discovery and data classification -- helping an organization truly protect all paths to the data, without slowing down th...

This week, we welcome Steve Wilson, Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security, to discuss Integrating Appsec Tools for DevOps Teams! In the AppSec news: Salesforce reveals their bounty totals for 2021, GitHub opens its advisory database for collaboration, a year in review of ICS vulns, automating WordPress plugin security analysis, the Secure Software Factory from CNCF, Samsung's encryption mista...

Lots of web hacking can be done directly from the browser. Throw in a proxy like Burp plus the browser's developer tools window and you've got a nearly complete toolkit. But nearly complete means there's still room for improvement. We'll talk about the tools to keep on hand, setting up practice targets, participating in bug bounties, and more resources to help you learn along the way! Then, this w...

Doug Kersten, CISO of Appfire, will discuss how the nature of vulnerabilities today makes it critical for developers to make sure they're building projects in a secure manner in order to quickly mitigate vulnerabilities – or they risk being left scrambling to respond when a threat hits. In the AppSec News: Docker and security boundaries, Google's year in vuln awards, 2021's year in web hacks, Appl...

Security is one of the most evolving and impactful landscapes in the regulatory sphere. Proposed initiatives in the areas of Incident Response, Software and Product Assurance, Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD), and IoT or Connected Products Regulations are among the most active and developing areas of security policy around the world. This evolving landscape also serves as an opportunity...

This week, we welcome Larry Maccherone, DevSecOps Transformation at Contrast Security, to discuss Shift Left, NOT S#!T LEFT! In the AppSec News: PwnKit LPE in Linux, two different smart contract logic flaws in two different hacks, a $100K bounty for Safari, Python NaN coercion, and AppSec games!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw182 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the la...

It is hard, if not impossible, to secure something you don't know exists. While security professionals spend countless hours on complex yet interesting issues that *may* be exploitable in the future, basic attacks are occurring every day against flaws in code that receives little review. For example, a "dated trend" by effective yet lazy hackers is to search for APIs unknown by security teams, coi...

This isn't a story about NPM even though it's inspired by NPM. Twice. The maintainer of the "colors" NPM library intentionally changed the library's behavior from its expected functionality to printing garbage messages. The library was exhibiting the type of malicious activity that typically comes from a compromised package. Only this time users of the library, which easily number in the thousands...

There's an understandable focus on "shift left" in modern DevOps and appsec discussions. So what does it take to broaden what we call appsec into something effective for modern apps, whether they're on the web, mobile, or cloud? We'll talk about moving on from niche offerings into successful appsec programs. The FTC issues a warning about taking log4j seriously, JNDI is elsewhere, cache poisoning...