Application Security Weekly (audio)

Service meshes create the opportunity to make security a team sport. They can improve observability and service identity. Turning monoliths into micro services sounds appealing, but maybe not every monolith needs to be broken up. We'll also talk about the maturity and design choices that go into service meshes and when a monolith should just remain a monolith. Segment Resources: https://www.solo.io/blog/kubernetes-security-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.solo.io/blog/apis-data-breach-zero-trust/ https://www.solo.io/blog/api-gateways-productivity-resilience-security-cloud-applications/ In the news, Nagios gets a review from NCC Group, hackers hack some anti-fixing code to fix trains in Poland, abusing OAuth post-compromise, 5Ghoul flaws in 5G networks, MITRE teases a new threat model for embedded systems, a conversation on vuln scoring systems, and more! Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secweekly/ Like us on Facebook:

We have a lot of questions about standards. How do standards emerge? How do standards encourage adoption? How do they stay relevant as development patterns change and security threats evolve? We have standards for web appsec (HTML, HTTP), all sorts of protocols, and all sorts of authentication (OAuth, OpenID). Learning how these standards come about can also inform how your own org documents designs and decisions. Segment resources https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3552 https://identiverse.com/video/the-butterfly-effect-of-standards-development/ https://sphericalcowconsulting.com https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6919 In the news, benchmarking prompt injection scanners, using generative AI to jailbreak generative AI, Meta's benchmark for LLM risks, tapping a protocol to hack Magic the Gathering, and more!   Visit https://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:

We cover appsec news on a weekly basis, but sometimes that news is merely about the start of a new project, sometimes it's yet another example of a vuln class, and sometimes it's a topic we hope doesn't become a trend. So, what themes have we seen and where do we see them going? Here are a few headline topics that have alternately generated yays and yawns. CISA's Secure by Design and Secure by Default CVSS 4.0 Generative AI MFA mandates Microsoft, Rust, and Memory Safety New TLDs OAuth OpenSSF and OWASP In the news, repetition extracts data from ChatGPT, more vulns in the software that surrounds AI, guidelines for secure AI, LogoFAIL trips a boot, BLUFFS attack on Bluetooth, CISA's first secure by design alert, Okta's updated breach disclosure, and more!   Visit https://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/asw-265

This year we've talked about vulns, clouds, breaches, presentations, and all the variations of Dev, Sec, and Ops. As we end the year, let's talk about starting things -- like starting an appsec program or an appsec career. But is there still a need for an appsec team? Or has it turned into specializations for areas like cloud security and bug bounty programs? We'll cover careers and coding, with an eye towards figuring out what modern software development looks like and where application (or product!) security fits in that model. Segment resources https://owaspsamm.org https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/11/02/announcing-microsoft-secure-future-initiative-to-advance-security-engineering/ https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/secure-by-design Weak randomness in old JavaScript crypto, lack of encryption in purported end-to-end encryption, a platform engineering maturity model, PyPI's first security audit, vision for a Rust specification, and more! Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw

Firmware security is complex and continues to be an industry challenge. In this podcast we'll talk about the reasons firmware security remains a challenge and some best practices around platform security. Segment Resources: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/27/firmware-blind-spots/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/09/28/hardware-security-challenges/ https://darkreading.com/application-security/4-open-source-tools-to-add-to-your-security-arsenal https://chipsec.github.io Hardware Hacking created by Maggie: https://securityweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/eArt-2.png Visit https://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/vault-asw-5

In the rapidly evolving landscape of application security, 2023 brought significant changes with the rise of generative AI tools and an increase in automated threats. In this discussion, Karl Triebes takes a deep dive into the major trends of the past year, examining their impact on the industry and shedding light on what security professionals can anticipate moving forward into 2024. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.com/imperva to learn more about them! CNCF's releases a handbook on fuzzing, OpenSSF and OWASP respond to CISA's Open Source Software Security RFI, 14 years of Go, lessons for today from an internet worm from 35 years ago, and more! Visit https://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/asw-263

A lot of appsec conferences have presentations for appsec audiences -- but that's not often the group that's building apps. What if more developer conferences had appsec content? We talk with Josh about security from the developer's point of view, both as an audience hearing about it and as a presenter talking about it. We discuss the importance of knowing your audience and finding the hooks in security tools and topics that can resonate with developers. Segment resources: https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/speaking/ Details of the Citrix Bleed vuln, exploitation of the Atlassian improper authorization vuln, so many jQuery installations to upgrade, the price of bounties and the cost of fixes, Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, and more! Visit https://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/asw-262

The categories of security tools that we're most familiar with have struggled to keep up with how modern apps are designed and what modern devs need. What if instead of being beholden to categories, we created tools that solved problems devs have today in the types of apps they build today? And what if we had more dev leadership to influence security tools as well as secure by design? What would that leadership look like? Segment Resources: https://danondev.com/youtube In the news, OAuth implementation failures, the State of DevOps report, data poisoning generative AIs with Nightshade, implementing spectre attacks with JavaScript and WebAssembly against WebKit, sandboxing apps Visit https://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/asw-261

We return to discussions of OAuth and all sorts of authentication. This time around we're looking at the design of authentication protocols, the kinds of trade-offs they weigh for adoption and security, and how a standard evolves over time to keep pace with new attacks and put to rest old mistakes. Segment resources: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/modes https://webauthn.wtf/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7636 https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/tao/ In the news, appsec lessons from the Okta breach, directory traversal (and appsec) lessons from SolarWinds, how CISOs and Boards rank factors around vulns and patching, revisiting cryptocurrency attacks for lessons in business logic and threat modeling, CISA and friends update guidance on Secure Design, and more! Visit https://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/asw-

It's no surprise that OT security has fared poorly over the last 30+ years. To many appsec folks, these systems have uncommon programming languages, unfamiliar hardware, and brittle networking stacks. They also tend to have different threat scenarios. Many of these systems are designed, successfully, to maintain availability. But when a port scan can freeze or crash a device, that availability seems like it hasn't put enough consideration into adversarial environments. We chat about the common failures of OT design and discuss a few ways that systems designed today might still be secure 30 years from now. In the news, how HTTP/2's rapid reset is abused for DDoS, a look at the fix for Curl's recent high severity bug, OWASP moves to make CycloneDX a standard, Microsoft deprecates NTLM, VBScript, and old TLS -- while also introducing an AI bug bounty program. Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.

What if all these recommendations to shift left were more about shifting focus? It's all too easy to become preoccupied with vulns, whether figuring out how to find them earlier in the SDLC or spending time fixing them within specific number of days. Successful DevSecOps approaches can be so much more than just vulns and so much more than just tools. Sure, tools are useful for identifying known vulns in dependencies and new vulns in code, but teams that emphasize people and culture will find it easier to shift their attention to the security of their product and creating secure designs. In the news, anticipating Curl's upcoming patch for a high severity flaw, the Looney Tunables flaw in Glibc, ShellTorch flaw hits PyTorch and lots of AI, lessons from some X.Org security patches, and more! Visit https://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  

Communication is a skill that doesn't appear on top 10 lists, rarely appears as a conference topic, and doesn't appear enough on job requirements. Yet communication is one of the critical ways that security teams influence developers, convey risk, and share knowledge with others. Even our own Security Weekly site falls a little short with only a podcast category for "Training" instead of more options around communication and collaboration. Lina shares her experience presenting to executives and boards in high-stress situations, as well as training incident responders on real-world scenarios. Segment resources https://training.xintra.org https://www.scmagazine.com/podcast-episode/2839-pointers-and-perils-for-presentations-josh-goldberg-asw-251 In the news segment, attackers impersonate Dependabot commits, an alg of "none" plagues a JWT, CISA calls for hardware bills of materials, OpenSSF lists its critical projects, Exim (finally! maybe?) has some patches, bug bounties and open source projects, and more! Vis

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/2111swiwhitepaper_nextgenbuild.pdf https://next.redhat.com/project/tekton-chains/ https://tekton.dev/ In the news, a stroll back through the Apache Struts breach of Equifax, CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, Rust's replacement for OpenSSL, Go no longer throws programmers for a loop, complexity vs. design (that leads to better security), and more! Visit https://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/asw-256

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 what tools organizations need to effectively mitigate these threats. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.com/imperva to learn more about them! In the news segment, 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! Visit https://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

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-zap-to-the-software-security-project/  - https://owasp.org/www-project-vulnerable-web-applications-directory/  In the news segment, 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! Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.co

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 from niche offerings into successful appsec programs. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-asw-4 

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 showing promise, as well as where we suspect it's still premature. In the news, 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! Visit https://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://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-253

Two featured interviews from this year's Black Hat. In the news, 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://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/asw-252  

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 along the way and how he helps others develop their skills for slides. Resources: - https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/how-i-apply-to-conferences-faqs/#what-are-your-favorite-conference-talks-youve-seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPPZ-NUnR-4&t=25743s&ab_channel=JSWORLDConference  Then in the news segment, 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

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 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://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/asw-250