

Application Security Weekly (Audio)
Security Weekly Productions
About all things AppSec, DevOps, and DevSecOps. Hosted by Mike Shema and John Kinsella, the podcast focuses on helping its audience find and fix software flaws effectively.
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Jul 14, 2022 • 1h 15min
ASW #202 - Mike Benjamin
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 architectures. This week in the AppSec News: Lessons learned from fuzzing, OT:ICEFALL report on insecure designs, CSA's Top Threats to Cloud Computing, Twitter apologizes for misusing data collection, & State of Open Source Security report! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw202

Jul 12, 2022 • 1h 4min
ASW #201 - IE11 Goes to Zero
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 disclosure program. In 2013 this evolved into a bug bounty program piloted with IE11, with award ranges from $500 to $11,000. Ten years later, that bounty range is still common across the industry. The technical goals of the program remain similar as well -- RCEs, universal XSS, and sandbox escapes are all vulns that can easily gain $10,000+ (or an order of magnitude greater) in modern browser bounty programs. So, even if we've finally moved on from a browser with an outdated security architecture, we're still dealing with critical patches in modern browsers. Fortunately, the concept of bounty programs continues. References: - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Reavey/MSRC.pdf - https://media.blackhat.com/bh-usa-08/video/bh-us-08-Reavey/black-hat-usa-08-reavey-securetheplanet-hires.m4v - https://web.archive.org/web/20130719064943/http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/IE11.aspx - https://web.archive.org/web/20190507215514/https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/bluehat/2013/07/03/new-bounty-programs-one-week-in/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw201

Jul 8, 2022 • 1h 8min
ASW #200 - Keith Hoodlet
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 security platform that crosses hybrid multi-cloud environments. Our vision for the Cisco Security Cloud will reshape the way organizations approach and protect the integrity of the entire IT ecosystem. Segment Resources: Cisco Security Resilience: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/security-resilience.html This segment is sponsored by Cisco. Visit https://securityweekly.com/cisco to learn more about them! The Culture Blindspot: Harmonizing DevSecOps Helps Curb Burnout Recent data shows that security and development teams are still stressed, and they’re taking that stress home with them. Not only are they spending unnecessary hours addressing security issues that they could have otherwise prevented with modern tools and best practices, but also these teams are taking time out of their personal lives during holidays and on weekends to manage critical issues, contributing to burnout and ultimately churn. There’s good news, though: relationships between security and development are steadily improving, and with the right support and modern tooling at hand, you can transform the lives of cybersecurity professionals while also boosting your organization’s security posture, too. This segment is sponsored by Invicti. Visit https://securityweekly.com/invicti to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw200

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 12min
ASW #198 - Matias Madou
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 Top 10 for Kubernetes, Firefox improves security with process isolation, CNCF releases guidance on Secure Software Factories and Cloud Native Security, & the DOJ clarifies its policy on CFAA! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw198

May 20, 2022 • 1h 20min
ASW #197 - Brian Glas
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, curl fixes flaws in mishandling dots and slashes, OpenSSF invests in a mobilization plan for open source, &interesting AppSec from Black Hat Asia! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw197

May 10, 2022 • 1h 13min
ASW #196 - Christoph Nagy
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.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw196

May 3, 2022 • 1h 14min
ASW #195 - Lynn Marks
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.com/imperva to learn more about them! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw195

Apr 26, 2022 • 1h 11min
ASW #194 - Dr. Chenxi Wang
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 RCE, lessons learned from the Okta breach, lessons repeated from a log4shell hot patch, a strategy for bug bounties, Microsoft finally disables SMB1! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw194 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 17min
ASW #193 - AppSec (& adjacent) Metrics
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, five flaws in a medical robot, lessons from ASN.1 parsing, XSS and bad UX, proactive security & engineering culture at Chime! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw193 Segment resources: - https://www.philvenables.com/post/10-fundamental-but-really-hard-security-metrics - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

Apr 12, 2022 • 1h 17min
ASW #192 - William Morgan
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 adversarial and moves the security boundary down to the pod level. William will discuss why the zero trust approach is increasingly necessary for comprehensive Kubernetes security, the dos and don’ts when adopting Kubernetes, the implications for operators and security teams, and where tooling like service mesh plays a role. In the Application Security News: SSRF at a FinTech leads to admin account takeover, Zoom's bounty payouts for 2021, SLSA demonstrates Build Provenance, Go's supply chain philosophy, Raspberry Pi credentials, & more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw192 Segment Resources: - https://github.com/linkerd - https://linkerd.io/ - https://buoyant.io/mtls-guide/ - https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-academy/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly