Application Security Weekly (Video)

Supply chain has been a hot topic for a few years now, but so many things we need to do for a secure supply chain aren't new at all. We'll cover SBOMs, vuln management, and putting together a secure pipeline. Segment resources: https://www.solarwinds.com/assets/solarwinds/swresources/whitepaper/2111 swi whitepaper_nextgenbuild.pdf https://next.redhat.com/project/tekton-chains/ https://tekton.dev/...

A slew of XSS in Azure's HDInsights, CNCF releases fuzzing and security audits on Kyverno and Dragonfly2, CISA shares a roadmap for security open source software, race conditions and repojacking in GitHub, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-255

The majority of attacks are now automated, with a growing number of attacks targeting business logic via APIs, which is unique to every organization. This shift makes traditional signature-based defenses insufficient to stop targeted business logic attacks on their own. In this discussion, Karl Triebes shares how flaws in business logic design can leave applications and APIs open to attack and wha...

A key compromised from a crash dump (and the many, many lessons that followed), more examples of mishandling secrets, URL parsing mismatches show path traversal works well in Rust, an old Linux kernel bug shows how brittle code can be (even when it's heavily audited), an example of keeping OSS projects alive, a quick note on BLASTPASS, and a look at privacy in cars, and more! Show Notes: https://s...

Zed Attack Proxy is an essential tool for web app pentesting. The project just recently moved from OWASP to the Secure Software Project. Hear about the challenges of running an OSS security project, why Simon got involved in the first place, and why successful projects are about more than just code.   Segment Resources: https://www.zaproxy.org/   https://softwaresecurityproject.org/blog/welcoming-...

Check out this interview from the ASW Vault, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on January 10, 2022. 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 fro...

A Go Crypto presentation from Real World Crypto, Excel releases support for Python, protecting users from malware like the Luna Grabber and WinRAR RCE, DARPA's V-SPELLS project, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-253  

We go deep on LLMs and generative AIs to shine a light on areas that security leaders should focus on. There are technical concerns like prompt injection and access controls, and privacy concerns in training and usage. But there are also areas where security tools are starting to address these concerns as well as areas where security tools are adopting AI themselves. We'll share where we see AI sh...

Discord.io ceases to be, Azure AD breach to get scrutiny from the CSRB, Zoom's AI stumbles show security concerns, model confusion attacks, a look at how far we have -- and haven't -- come with XSS flaws, an approachable article on AI, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-252  

Modern applications are transforming how businesses serve their customers, employees, and partners. But they also challenge security teams with limited to no visibility or control while expanding an organization's attack surface. Jason Rolleston, vice president and general manager of VMware Carbon Black, discusses how security teams can enable their companies to safely adopt modern application env...

DARPA unleashes an AI Cyber Challenge to find flaws, CISA asks for input on securing open source software and memory safety, what five years of vuln research shows for vuln management programs, siphoning security tokens from VS Code, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-251  

A key part of modern appsec is communication. From interpersonal skills for fostering collaborations to presentation skills for delivering a message, the ability to tell a story and engage an audience is a skill that doesn't appear on top ten lists and that doesn't come up in secure coding checklists. Josh shares his path to becoming a presenter on technical topics, including stumbles he's made al...

Zap gets a jolt of new support, using Clang for security research, LLM attacks learn models, Rust visualizes dependencies, a National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-250  

Mature shops should be looking to a security architecture process to help scale their systems and embrace security by design. We talk about what it means to create a security architecture process, why it's not just another security review, and why it requires security to dig into engineering. Segment Resources: https://www.lacework.com/ciso-boardbook/ciso/merritt-baer     Visit https://www.securit...

Zenbleed in AMD, Google's TAG sees a drop in zero-days, new security testing handbook from Trail of Bits, Phil Venables' advice on public speaking, car battery monitor that monitors location(!?), more news on TETRA   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-249  

Identity isn't new, but we do have new ways of presenting and protecting identity with things like payment wallets and verifiable credentials. But we also have identity in surprising places -- like cars. We'll answer some questions like: Why do we even have identities in cars? What else is your car connected to? How should devs be thinking about security in this space? And, yeah, we'll have that s...

RCE in ssh-agent forwarding, finding zero-days in CTFs, Node's vm2 can't be secured, NPM packaging ambiguities, privilege escalation in Google's Cloud Build, putting satellite security into low-earth analysis, FCC proposes a trust mark, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-248  

Appsec teams and developers must both understand the consequences of what they're doing when building APIs. Appsec teams need to push for collaboration and help implement tools that augment the development process. Dev teams need to wrangle complex architectures and work on addressing classes of vulns rather than just playing BugOps with scanner outputs.   This segment is sponsored by GuidePoint....

It's a busy news week - We explore what happens when people trust plugging cables into their EVs in public, how an APT is leveraging docker and kubernetes to build a botnet, why you should be careful running code from "researchers," and much more.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-247  

While much has been written and argued about the security of election systems - the things that do the actual ballot counting - there's other systems that have to be in place and secured before the vote can occur - voter registration databases, ballot delivery systems, etc. Might it be possible to use modern appsec concepts OWASP SAMM to secure them in a more efficient, targeted, cost-effective ma...

Melinda will share results from her study last year on developer-focused security, "Walking the Line: Shift Left and GitOps Security" and discuss trends to help security keep up with modern software development.   Segment Resources: ESG Complete Survey Results: Walking the Line: GitOps and Shift Left Security: https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/515201532/Toc   Addressing the confusion ar...

Infosec is still figuring out useful metrics, how to talk about risk, and how to make resilience more relevant. Shannon talks about a new community effort to measure software trust. She also covers threat modeling and adversary management as steps towards determining an org's resiliency and security.   Segment resources: https://community.ravemetrics.com   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw...

Check out this interview from the ASW Vault, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on May 23, 2022. Developers want bug-free code -- it frees up their time and is easier to maintain. They want secure code for the same reasons. We'll talk about how the definition of secure coding varies among developers and appsec teams, why it's important to understand those pe...

Two XSS vulns via postMessage methods in Azure, how to choose (and move on from) a web research topic, OpenSSF finances a security developer-in-residence for Python, more infosec myths, free cybersecurity training resources   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-245  

Without visibility and continuous monitoring, dangerous threats expose our blind spots and create risk. Invicti, who brought together Acunetix and Netsparker, analyzes common web application vulns across thousands of assets yearly and releases the Invicti AppSec Indicator for a holistic view of vulnerability trends from automated scan results. In this talk, Invicti Director of Product Patrick Vand...