Absolute AppSec

Seth Law and Ken Johnson are back this week. In this show, Seth and Ken discuss what the RSA conference did (and did not) reveal about the current state of #applicationsecurity, #appsec, #crocsandsocks. Also a discussion of the ChatGPT breach as well as AI's role in generating ever more content (in this case with news sites).

Finally returning to the podcast after a couple weeks of travel, training, and speaking, Seth and Ken are back for more, including their own takes opinions on the decline of application security and the reported death of manual code reviews.

The dynamite duopoly that is Ken and Seth are back to take the AppSec news by storm. Starting with Seth's favorite topic of Auditing or Logging, Ken brings up the recent Okta vulnerability report related to plaintext logging of usernames and passwords. This is followed by a review of Troy Hunt's recent post on edge cases when interacting with 3rd-party services, which the duo extrapolates to security edge cases and things they have seen recently. Finally, a discussion on manipulation of client single page applications to expose administrative endpoints from a recent twitter thread on reported and identified bug bounty issues of the same flavor.

Joining Seth and Ken is Shlomi Shaki, a tech exec with GitHub who directs sales resources related Application Security and Product Security in APJ region. Discussion revolves around adoption of security tools and the struggles of securing software from both a tooling and process perspective.

Ken Johnson (@cktricky on twitter) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) interview Haseeb Awan (@haseeb) founder and CEO of Efani, a mobile service provider focused on security.

A lot has happened since the 200th (!!!) episode of the podcast, so we are bring another episode with a discussion of recent events, sites, and interesting finds. First up is a discussion of recent breaches, including some stories related to consumer rewards programs and weaknesses in that space. This is followed by a discussion on responsibility of package managers (e.g. npm, pip) for disclosure or removal of known vulnerable packages. Finally, Seth's favorite topic of audit logs gets a public shaming site for services that don't follow industry best-practices.

Jerry Gamblin joins Seth and Ken for the 200th episode of the podcast. The discussions starts with a lengthy analysis of startup culture, security startups, and gotchas to be aware of when employed at or considering a job with a startup. This is followed by in-depth analysis of CVEs and how the process of publicly reporting issues in software has changed over time. A small snippet on interesting tokens/words/comments to search for in git logs and comments that point at security problems.

After a number of guest appearances, Ken and Seth are flying "duo" to talk through recent news across the industry. Starting with analysis of the recent OWASP Change petition that has surfaced to address needs of OWASP projects and chapters for funding and definition of how the organization supports multiple efforts. Followed by commiseration with Eurostar on their recent self-inflicted lockout of user accounts due to authentication upgrades. Finally, discussion of the recent reddit phishing scam and how the public display of their incident response shows security maturity.

Laura Bell Main, founder and CEO of safestack.io (@lady_nerd on twitter and check out her website https://laurabellmain.com to acquaint yourself with her work and recent publications), joins Seth and Ken as a special guest. The discussion revolves around security training for developers and how it has changed over the years.

Sal Olivares, Senior Software Engineer from segment.io, joins Seth and Ken to discuss his experience with and recent blog post related to security token scanning and revocation. Sal was involved with the recently-implemented exposed scanning token service at Segment and talks through his experience, gotchas, and other security topics.