Application Security Weekly (Video)

Kubernetes is conceptually simple, but in practical terms, a highly complex distributed system with thousands of interdependent settings that drive behavior and security posture. That said, focusing hardening efforts on a handful of key configurations and policies can make the job of an attacker incredibly challenging in a cluster.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest epis...

This week in the Application Security News, Zoom is gaining lots of attention for flaws and serves as a good exercise in threat modeling and communicating security trade-offs, Popular Digital Wallet Exposes Millions to Risk in Huge Data Leak from the usual suspect of an S3 bucket for an unusual amount of sensitive data, 12k+ Android apps contain master passwords, secret access keys, secret command...

Most security programs generally get in the way of delivery (if they don't, to all intents and purposes, prevent it altogether) and are probably also failing to provide the required level of actual security. This segment can try to look at why this is the case and how (in general terms) security and product teams can change this.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episod...

Static application security testing (SAST) is critical for uncovering and eliminating issues in proprietary code. However, over 60% of the code in an average application today is composed of open source components. SAST isn't designed to find open source vulnerabilities (CVEs) or identify open source licenses. And manually maintaining a repository of approved open source components for developers...

Singularity is a container runtime that was built from the ground up to live in multi-user environments where POSIX permissions must be respected. In addition to a novel runtime approach, the Singularity Image Format (SIF) differs significantly from other container image formats, with built-in support for full image encryption as well as digital signatures.   For more information, visit:  http://s...

Data of millions of eBay and Amazon shoppers exposed as another supply chain casualty, Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers, and The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 1). Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode100

Due to a combination of a) development teams embracing Agile and DevOps and b) that security teams are often outnumbered by developers 100:1 or more in many companies, there's been a fundamental shift in how security teams need to operate. I've spent a significant amount of time studying how security teams at companies, large and small, have attempted to adapt to this new reality. There are a numb...

CVE-2020-0688 Losing the keys to your kingdom, which is why Multiple nation-state groups are hacking Microsoft Exchange servers, Revoking certain certificates on March 4 and Why 3 million Let's Encrypt certificates are being killed off today, Gandalf: An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure and slides, CISOs Who Want a Seat at the DevOps...

Guy Podjarny (@guypod) is Snyk's Founder and President, focusing on using open source and staying secure. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai following their acquisition of his startup, Blaze.io, and worked on the first web app firewall & security code analyzer. Guy is a frequent conference speaker & the author of O'Reilly "Securing Open Source Libraries", "Responsive & Fast" and "High Performance Im...

Dan discusses his upcoming 2-day workshop at InfoSec World. The workshop is a "deep survey" into all things DevSecOps. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode98

CVE-2020-1938: Ghostcat vulnerability in the Tomcat Apache JServ Protocol. IMP4GT: IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks demonstrates a proven insecurity on a layer above provably secure protocol, Boeing implementing more rigorous testing of Starliner after software problems shows how problems in cloud computing will be just the same in star systems, APIs are becoming a major target for credential...

6 of the 10 vendors at Innovation Sandbox are application security companies, F5 Empowers Customers with End-to-End App Security, Checkmarx Simplifies Automation of Application Security Testing for Modern Development and DevOps Environments, and more RSA Conference News! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode97

Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer at Veracode, provides an update on Veracode including 2019 growth, new product announcements, Veracode Security Labs, and booth activities at RSA Conference 2020. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode97

SweynTooth: Unleashing Mayhem over Bluetooth Low Energy, OWASP SAMM version 2, Understanding Trusted Execution Environments and Arm TrustZone, Security Researchers Partner With Chrome To Take Down Browser Extension Fraud Network Affecting Millions of Users with a revisit to CRXcavator and a look at one of its components, RetireJS, It's the Boot for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 and it's only been about six...

Doug DePerry has held multiple positions in his three years at Datadog, including Director of Product Security and currently, Director of Defense. Prior to his current position, Doug lead the bug bounty program at Yahoo. Much of his 12+ years of experience in the security industry is on the offensive side, as a security researcher and consultant at Leaf SR and iSec Partners and helping establish t...

This week in the Application Security News, Mike and John cover the following news stories: Critical Security Flaw Found in WhatsApp Desktop Platform Allowing Cybercriminals Read From The File System Access, Dropbox bug bounty program has paid out over $1,000,000, Report Pins Cloud Security Woes on Flawed DevOps Processes, Ghost in the shell: Investigating web shell attacks, An Incident Impacting...

In this interview segment, Mike and John interview Shaun Lamb about strategies for how best to design applications so they are "secure by default" and have fewer incidents and vulnerabilities, How DevOps or DevSecOps positively changes the relationship between security and development/operations including: the application design process, security testing, and security education programs, and the s...

Mike, John, and Matt review the presentation given by Clint Gilber at AppSec Cali, An Opinionated Guide to Scaling Your Company's Security. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode94

This week in the Application Security News, Mike, John, and Matt cover the following news stories: Xbox Bounty Program, Magento 2.3.4 Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities, Remote Cloud Execution - Critical Vulnerabilities in Azure Cloud Infrastructure, RCE in OpenSMTPD library impacts BSD and Linux distros, Fintechs divided on screen scraping ban, and Zero trust architecture design prin...

Pwn2Own Miami -- Schedule and Live Results show just how profitable deserialization, information leaks, and out-of-bounds flaws are, Insecure configurations expose GE Healthcare devices to attacks demonstrate more simple flaws with high impacts, NSA Offers Guidance on [Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities] across four major classes of misconfiguration, poor access cont...

Mobile applications are a rapidly growing attack surface and the tools and techniques being used to compromise these environments are constantly evolving. As the provider in mobile application protection mapping to two out of 10 security risks found in the OWASP Mobile Top 10, Guardsquare is most effective in providing advanced detection for on-device and off-device attacks. Guardsquare s RASP lib...

PoC Exploits Published For Microsoft Crypto Bug disclosed by NSA, Pratt & Whitney Expects GTF Engine Software Update on A220 Jet in Spring, Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete and making the User-Agent less revealing about the user, Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector, Vulnerability management requires good people and patching skills and DevSecOp...

Apps must protect the data they collect. How can DevOps teams apply effective controls like strong authentication and authorization? How do cloud services help or hinder encrypting data? Envelope encryption uses multiple keys to protect data. It's a scalable pattern for protecting data and is nicely documented for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Be warned that each provider uses slightly different terminolog...

This week on the Application Security News, Mike Shema, Matt Alderman and John Kinsella cover the following news stories: Policy and Disclosure: 2020 Edition, A look back & forward for bug bounties over the past decade, 4 Ring Employees Fired For Spying on Customers, Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar, The Open Source Licence Debate: Comprehension Consternations & Stipulation Frustr...

Hillel Solow is the CTO at Check Point. Much has evolved in a few short years with DevSecOps and application development and security. But just when we think we see everything clearly and have it all figured out, something new changes. Here we will discuss the unique ways organizations are leveraging serverless for their applications and how DevSecOps teams are working together to build out these...