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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw228

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw227

We speak with Dr. David Movshovitz about There Is No Average Behavior!

Segment Resources:

White paper: https://www.reveal.security/lp/white-paper/

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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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw226

Developers write code. Ideally, secure code. But what do we mean by secure code? What should secure code training look like?

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw226

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw225

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/

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw225

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw224

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/

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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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw223