Application Security Weekly (audio)

Application security in the cloud is a crucial aspect of protecting data and preventing unauthorized access to applications hosted on cloud platforms. As cloud computing becomes more prevalent, ensuring the security of applications has become a top priority for organizations. This is because cloud environments present unique security challenges, such as shared resources, multi-tenancy, and a lack of physical control. Therefore, it is essential to implement security measures that are specific to cloud-based applications. Segment Resources: - https://www.youtube.com/@Infosecvandana/videos   Lessons from an old 2008 JSON.parse vuln, opening garage doors with a password, stealing cars with CAN bus injection, manipulating Twitter's recommendation algorithm, engineering through complexity, successful tabletop exercises, and the anniversary of Heartbleed.   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.fa

Following on from her successful title "Container Security", Liz has recently authored "Learning eBPF", published by O'Reilly. eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that is enabling a whole new generation of infrastructure tools for networking, observability, and security. Let's explore eBPF and understand its value for security, and how it's used to secure network connectivity in the Cilium project, and for runtime security observability and enforcement in Cilium's sub-project, Tetragon.   Segment Resources:  Download "Learning eBPF": https://isovalent.com/learning-ebpf   Buy "Learning eBPF" from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-eBPF-Programming-Observability-Networking/dp/1098135121 Code examples accompanying the book: https://github.com/lizrice/learning-ebpf= Cilium project: https://cilium.io Tetragon project: https://tetragon.cilium.io/   BingBang and Azure, Super FabriXss and Azure, reversing the 3CX trojan on macOS, highlights from Real World Crypto, fun GPT prompts, and a secure code game  

With the increased interest and use of AI such as GTP 3/4, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and internal modeling, there comes an array of use cases and examples for increased efficiency, but also inherent security risks that organizations should consider. In this talk, Invicti’s CTO & Head of Security Research Frank Catucci discusses potential use cases and talks through real-life examples of using AI in production environments. Frank delves into benefits, as well as security implications, touching on a number of security aspects to consider, including security from the supply chain perspective, SBOMs, licensing, as well as risk mitigation, and risk assessment. Frank also covers some of the types of attacks that might happen as a result of utilizing AI-generated code, like intellectual property leaking via a prompt injection attack, data poisoning, etc. And lastly, Frank shares the Invicti security team's real-life experience of utilizing AI, including early successes and failures.   Segment Resources: On-deman

Static analysis is the art of scrutinizing your code without building or running it. Common static analysis tools are formatters (which change whitespace and other trivia), linters (which detect likely best practice and style issues), and type checkers (which detect likely bugs). Each of these can aid in improving application security by detecting real issues at development-time. Segment Resources: https://typescript-eslint.io  https://eslint.org https://blog.joshuakgoldberg.com   Outlook can leak NTLM hashes, potential RCE in a chipset for Wi-Fi calling in phones (and autos!?), the design of OpenSSH's sandboxes, more on the direction of OWASP, celebrating 25 years of Curl.   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/asw233

In this segment, Josh will talk about the OWASP ASVS project which he co-leads. He will talk a little about its background and in particular how it is starting to be used within the security industry. We will also discuss some of the practicalities and pitfalls of trying to get development teams to include security activities and considerations in their day-to-day work and examples of how Josh has seen this “in the wild”.   Segment Resources: Josh's personal website, https://joshcgrossman.com  Josh's mastodon handle, https://infosec.exchange/@JoshCGrossman OWASP ASVS site, https://owasp.org/asvs More detailed talk about ASVS v4.0.3, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqj4YuoAlcA The most recent, stable version of the standard (v4.0.3), https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/tree/v4.0.3/4.0 The “bleeding edge”/in-progress version, https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/tree/master/5.0 Loom provides transparency on mishandling cookies, GitHub moves to require 2FA, TPM reference implementation includes a buffer overflow, Dropbox sh

In this episode, Neatsun Ziv, co-founder and CEO of Ox security takes a deep dive into supply chain security. He focuses on the new Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference (OSC&R), a consortium of leading cybersecurity leaders. OSC&R the first and only open framework for understanding and evaluating existing threats to entire software supply chain security. Segment Resources: https://pbom.dev/ -https://github.com/pbomdev/   OSCAR WebSocket hijack that leads to a full workspace takeover in a cloud IDE, malicious packages flood public repos, side-channel attack on a post-quantum algorithm, looking at OWASP's evolution, OAuth misconfigs lead to account takeover, AI risk management framework, Zed Attack Proxy   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/asw231

Join us for this segment with Lina Lau to learn lessons from real incident response engagements covering types of attacks leveraged against the cloud, war stories from supply chain breaches seen in the last 1-2 years, and how defenders and enterprises can better protect and proactively defend against these attacks.   Segment Resources: Attacking and Defending the Cloud (Training) https://training.xintra.org/ Blackhat Singapore 2023 Training ADVANCED APT THREAT HUNTING & INCIDENT RESPONSE (VIRTUAL) https://www.blackhat.com/asia-23/training/schedule/index.html#advanced-apt-threat-hunting--incident-response-virtual-29792 Blackhat USA 2023 Training ADVANCED APT THREAT HUNTING & INCIDENT RESPONSE (IN-PERSON) https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/training/schedule/#advanced-apt-threat-hunting--incident-response-30558     Twitter 2FA goes away, safe testing for server-side prototype pollution, OWASP's guide on AI security & privacy, Adobe's approach to smarter security testing, a fast web fuzzer   Visit https

It's another holiday week, so enjoy this episode from our archives! What does a collaborative approach to security testing look like? What does it take to tackle an entire attack class as opposed to fixing a bunch of bugs? If we can shift from vulnerability mitigation to vulnerability elimination, then appsec would be able to demonstrate some significant wins -- and they need a partnership with DevOps teams in order to do this successfully. Log4j has more updates and more vulns (but probably not more heartburn...), revisiting outages and whether availability has made it into your threat models, deep dive into hardware security, another data point on bug bounty awards, and looking at risk topics for the next year. This completes another year of the podcast! A very heartfelt thank you to all our listeners! And a special thank you and shout out to the crew that helps make this possible every week -- Johnny, Gus, Sam, and Renee. We'll keep the New Wave / Post-Punk, movie, and pop culture references coming for all

Organizations spend hundreds of work hours to build applications and services that will benefit customers and employees alike. Whether the application/service is externally facing or for internal use only, it is mandatory to identify and understand the scope of potential cyber risks and threats it poses to the organization. But where and how do you start with an accurate threat model? Nick can discuss how to approach this and create a model that's useful to security and developers alike. Segment Resources https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/2022-12-curl-threatmodel.pdf   Reddit's breach disclosure, simple vulns in Toyota's web portals, OpenSSL vulns, voting results for Portswigger's top 10 web hacking techniques of 2022, tiny IoT cryptography implementations, real world migration of a million lines of code    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/se

Most of the myths and lies in InfoSec take hold because they seem correct or sound logical. Similar cognitive biases make it possible for even the most preposterous conspiracy theories to become commonly accepted in some groups. This is a talk about the importance of critical thinking and checking sources in InfoSec. Our industry is relatively new and constantly changing. Too often, we operate more off faith and hope than fact or results. Exhausted and overworked defenders often don't have the time to seek direct evidence for claims, question sources, or test theories for themselves. Resources - https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2023/presentation/sanabria - https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/enigma2023_slides_sanabria.pdf - https://yourbias.is - Discuss: What Makes a Good Breach Response? - ESW #303: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpZiVu3xEs   The aviation equivalent of ASCII art, a memory safety issue in OpenSSH that might not be terrible, a format string in F5 th

A $10M ransom demand to Riot Games, a DoS in BIND and why there's no version 10, an unexpected refactor at Twilio, insights in Rust from the git security audit, SQL Slammer 20 years later, the SQLMap tool   We talk with Dr. David Movshovitz about There Is No Average Behavior! Segment Resources: White paper: https://www.reveal.security/lp/white-paper/   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/asw227

Breach disclosures from T-Mobile and PayPal, SSRF in Azure services, Google Threat Horizons report, integer overflows and more, Rust in Chromium, ML for web scanning, Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2022 Developers write code. Ideally, secure code. But what do we mean by secure code? What should secure code training look like? 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/asw226

We're aren't recording this holiday week, so enjoy this ASW throwback episode! Main host Mike Shema selected this episode to share as it's still relevant to the AppSec community today.    This week, we welcome Nuno Loureiro, CEO at Probely, and Tiago Mendo, CTO at Probely, to talk about Dev(Sec)Ops Scanning Challenges & Tips! There's a plenitude of ways to do Dev(Sec)Ops, and each organization or even each team uses a different approach. Questions such as how many environments you have and the frequency of deployment of those environments are important to understand how to integrate a security scanner in your DevSecOps processes. It all comes down to speed, how fast can I scan the new deployment? Discussion around the challenges on how to integrate a DAST scanner in DevSecOps and some tips to make it easier.   In the AppSec News: View source good / vuln bad, IoT bad / rick-roll good, analyzing the iOS 15.0.2 patch to develop an exploit, bypassing reviews with GitHub Actions, & more NIST DevSecOps guid

Exposed secrets from CircleCI, web hackers target the auto industry, $100K bounty for making Google smart speakers listen, inspiration from Office Space, AWS making better defaults for S3, resources for learning Rust   This segment will discuss options for protecting your APIs. First, why protect them? Second, what are the options and the tradeoffs. Segment Resources: - https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/11/the-complete-guide-to-protecting-your-apis-with-oauth2/ - https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/ - https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide-to-oauth - https://oauth.net/2/ - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-07.html - https://paseto.io - https://securityboulevard.com/2021/11/biggest-api-security-attacks-of-2021-so-far/   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: http

How do you mature a team responsible for securing software? What are effective ways to prioritize investments? We'll discuss a set of posts on building talent, building capabilities, and what mature teams look like. Segment resources: - https://securing.dev/categories/essentials/   Metrics for building a security product, hands-on image classification attacks, a proposed PEACH framework for cloud isolation, looking back at Log4Shell, building an appsec toolbox   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/asw224

FreeBSD joins the ping of death list, exploiting a SQL injection through JSON manipulation, Apple's design for iCloud encryption, attacks against machine learning systems and AIs like ChatGPT   Threat modeling is an important part of a security program, but as companies grow you will choose which features you want to threat model or become a bottleneck. What if I told you, you can have your cake and eat it too. It is possible to scale your program and deliver higher quality threat models. Segment Resources: - Original blog: https://segment.com/blog/redefining-threat-modeling/ - Open Sourced slides: https://github.com/segmentio/threat-modeling-training   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/asw223

Android platform certs leaked, SQL injection to leaked credentials to cross-tenant access in IBM's Cloud Database, hacking cars through web-based APIs, technical and social considerations when getting into bug bounties, a brief note on memory safety in Android   Finding the balance between productivity and security is most successful when it leads to security solutions that help users rather than blames them for security failures. We'll talk about the security decisions that go into handling potentially malicious files so that users can stay calm and carry on. This segment is sponsored by Votiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/votiro 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/asw222

Crossing tenants with AWS AppSync, more zeros in C++ to defeat vulns, HTTP/3 connection contamination, Thinkst Quarterly review of research, building a research team   MongoDB recently announced the industry’s first encrypted search scheme using breakthrough cryptography engineering called Queryable Encryption. This technology gives developers the ability to query encrypted sensitive data in a simple and intuitive way without impacting performance, with zero cryptography experience required. Data remains encrypted at all times on the database, including in memory and in the CPU; keys never leave the application and cannot be accessed by the database server. While adoption of cloud computing continues to increase, many organizations across healthcare, financial services, and government are still risk-averse. They don’t want to entrust another provider with sensitive workloads. This encryption capability removes the need to ever trust an outside party with your data. This end-to-end client-side encryption uses

CosMiss in Azure, $70k bounty for a Pixel Lock Screen bypass, finding path traversal with Raspberry Pi-based emulators, NSA guidance on moving to memory safe languages, implementing phishing-resistant MFA, egress filtering, and how to approach code reviews   Cider Security’s recently published research of the Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks acts to identify vulnerabilities to help defenders focus on areas to secure their CI/CD ecosystem. They created a free learning tool with a deliberately vulnerable environment to demonstrate these flaws -- “CI/CD Goat”. Like similar tools, this helps appsec and devops teams gain a better understanding of major CI/CD security risks and, importantly, their appropriate countermeasures. Segment Resources: - https://www.cidersecurity.io/top-10-cicd-security-risks/ - https://github.com/cider-security-research/top-10-cicd-security-risks - https://www.cidersecurity.io/blog/research/ci-cd-goat/ - https://github.com/cider-security-research/cicd-goat   Visit https://www.securityweekly.c

While APIs enable innovation, they’re increasingly targeted as a pathway to data. API abuses are often carried out through automated attacks, in which a botnet floods the API with unwanted traffic—seeking vulnerable applications and unprotected data. In this discussion, Karl Triebes shares what you need to know about the automated bot threats targeting your APIs with guidance on how to protect your applications and APIs from these attacks. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.com/imperva to learn more about them!   The punycode parsing in OpenSSL, missing authentication in Azure Cosmos DB Notebooks, the importance of documentation in security, labeling IoT security, bad response to a security disclosure   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/asw219