Application Security Weekly (Video)

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...

This week, on the Application Security News, Mike Shema and Matt Alderman discuss Featured Flaws and Big Breaches (Cisco kicks off 2020 with 12 CVEs in Cisco Data Center Network Manager), Cloud, Code and Controls (Python is dead. Long live Python!), Learning and Tools (Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10), and Food for Thought (Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number, 6 Sec...

This week on Application Security Weekly, Mike Shema and Matt Alderman discuss Privacy by Design - The 7 Foundational Principles. This discussion includes these topics: Proactive not Reactive; Preventative not Remedial, Privacy as the Default, Privacy Embedded into Design, Full Functionality - Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum, End-to-End Security - Lifecycle Protection, Visibility and Transparency, Resp...

Binary Planting with the npm CLI is another way to describe one of our favorite attacks, GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats, Speculation & leakage: Timing side channels & multi-tenant computing from AWS re:invent. A great talk from a the perspective of a threat model where such attacks are a critical part of the threat model, How can we integrate security into the DevOps pipelines...

Dave Ferguson is the Director of Product Management, WAS at Qualys. Dave will discuss the issue of latent vulnerabilities and how they may linger in your custom-coded web applications and APIs, presenting an enticing target for attackers. Full Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/qualys Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly....

In the Application Security News, GitHub Seeks Security Dominance With Developers, IoT and Agile Framework Partners in Efficacy, WhiteSource acquires & open sources Renovate dependency update tool set, and Java vs. Python: Which should you choose? So stay tuned, for Application Security Weekly! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityw...

Allan Friedman is the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives of NTIA (National Telecommunication and Information Administration) US Dept of Commerce. The problem: unknown software supply chain. Following a newly identified software risk, very few firms can answer the simple question: Am I affected? An overview of the solution: what is an SBOM, and how is it used. Where we are: some background on wh...

Analysis of Jira Bug Stresses Impact of SSRF in Public Cloud, DevSecOps Adoption and the Web Security Myth, Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs, Firefox gets tough on tracking tricks that sneakily sap your privacy, and Decoding the Modern Enterprise Software Spaghetti. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki....

Sandy Carielli is the Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Discuss the impact of good and bad bots on enterprises and how it is both a security and customer experience problem. Review how the bot management marketing is evolving and how WAFs are buying up or partnering with bot management tools to expand their reach. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show No...

$1M Google Hacking Prize, 1.2B Records Exposed in Massive Server Leak, How Attackers Could Hijack Your Android Camera to Spy on You, XSS in GMail's AMP4Email via DOM Clobbering, and much more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode86

Tim Mackey is the Principal Security Strategist at Synopsys. Measuring the risk of those decisions isn't something contained within a single tool, but instead requires a set of perspectives on how a "bad decision" can manifest itself in the security of the app. To learn more about Synopsys, visit: https://securityweekly.com/synopsys Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episo...

Pawan Shankar is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of Sysdig. Sysdig is very excited to announce the launch of Sysdig Secure 3.0! With this release, Sysdig Secure is the industry's first security tool to bring both threat prevention and incident response to Kubernetes. To learn more about Sysdig, visit: https://securityweekly.com/sysdig Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the lates...

This site maintains quick links for checking End Of Life dates for various tools and technologies, Mirantis' Docker Enterprise acquisition a lifeline as industry shifts to Kubernetes, Website, Know Thyself: What Code Are You Serving? because it might have a, Self-Cleaning Payment Card-Skimmer Infects E-Commerce Sites, Attackers' Costs Increasing as Businesses Focus on Security, Soft Skills: 6 Nont...

Pwn2Own Tokyo Roundup: Amazon Echo, Routers, Smart TVs Fall to Hackers, Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them 'Infinite Leverage', Bugcrowd Pays Out Over $500K in Bounties in One Week, GWP-ASan: Sampling heap memory error detection in-the-wild, and much more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode8...

Mike, Matt, and John talk about security testing. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/ASWEpisode84

Stable Channel Update for Desktop Chrome users should upgrade to, Overcoming the container security conundrum: What enterprises need to know, Security Think Tank: In the cloud, the buck stops with you, PHP Bug Allows Remote Code-Execution on NGINX, Servers and patch details at Sec Bug #78599, Raising Security Awareness: Why Tools Can't Replace People, and much more! Visit https://www.securityweekl...