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Episode 234 - Password Analysis, GitHub Copilot Feb 13, 2024

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Ken and Seth comment on their recent use of the same passwords across multiple organizations. Errr, or wait. That's administrators in some instances, according to recently published analysis from Lares. Will we ever get over passwords or are we doomed to repeat the past? In other news, GitHub Copilot may be (one of) the culprit(s) for the enshitification of code, based on a published paper from GitClear. Or it might just be that organizations and developers should have coding standards. Or maybe it's not that deep. Come join us and chat about it.

Episode 233 - Scammers, Deep Fakes, Data Exposure Feb 06, 2024

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Seth and Ken return to the podcast to talk about fraud scammers based on a recent article from Cory Doctorow and what AppSec can do to protect their apps and themselves. Crocs and Socks. The use of deep fakes to scam corporations to transfer money. Finally, a discussion on sensitive data and why it happens in APIs due to the recent news that Spoutible exposed all sorts of tokens as reported by Troy Hunt.

Episode 232 - Security Jobs, Surveillance, Prompt Injection Jan 30, 2024

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Ken and Seth start out with a lengthy discussion about application security jobs, training, and getting into the security space due to an article based on someone's experience moving from IT to pentesting. This is followed by possible needs for the NSA to collect commercially available browsing data. Finally, a quick hit on prompt injection and how things are moving quickly in the AI/LLM space.

Episode 231 - FlowMate, State of Software Supply Chain Security Jan 23, 2024

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Seth and Ken are back after a weeks hiatus and start by demonstrating FlowMate, a newly released Burp Extension for building context of the parameters used by an application. This is followed by in-depth analysis of Reversing Lab's State of Software Supply Chain Security Report.

Episode 230 - False Positives vs. Negatives, Scaling Vuln Management Jan 09, 2024

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Ken and Seth return to settle the age old question of whether false positives or false negatives are better when dealing with security tools. Tears are shed as stories of wasted efforts ring through on the podcasting airwaves. Maybe. Discussions on AI generated recommendations and how it _can_ be useful, but also turn out poorly. Finally, introductions on large scale vulnerability management at GitHub and how organizations struggle to fix issues identified through multiple streams.

Episode 229 - Software Supply Chain Security, 2024 Predictions Jan 02, 2024

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Seth and Ken kick off a new year talking about recent news, including improvements in security process for software supply chains. This is followed by security predictions for 2024, including LLMs, dynamic scanning, process, and other possibilities in the near future.

Episode 228 w/ Chime Security Engineering - Monocle Dec 19, 2023

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David Trejo (@dtrejo@infosec.exchange) and Paul Kuliniewicz, security engineers at Chime join Seth (@sethlaw on x) and Ken (@cktricky) to discuss the ins and outs of challenges and successes in a widely recognized effective product security program. You can start reading up on the Monocle program here: https://medium.com/life-at-chime/monocle-how-chime-creates-a-proactive-security-engineering-culture-part-1-dedd3846127f And part 2 here: https://medium.com/life-at-chime/mitigating-risky-pull-requests-with-monocle-risk-advisor-part-2-7013e1485bf2.

Episode 227 - Token Leakage, Cybersecurity Isn't Special Dec 14, 2023

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Ken and Seth return to discuss current news. First up is a discussion about token leakage based on the recent discovery of AI tokens on Github and Cloud tokens on Hugging Face's repository. The struggles that package maintainers have with hosted data and secrets is an old problem that doesnt' have a good solution. A re-hash of the recent blogpost "Cybersecurity isn't Special" and how this also isn't a new idea.

Episode 226 - Security Reviews, CVE-2023-46214 Dec 05, 2023

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Ken and Seth decide whether the idea of security reviews are dead, spurred on by a recent blog post by Frank Wang on doing away with the current perception of reviews. This is followed by a walkthrough of the Splunk XSLT code and vulnerability for the PoC of CVE-2023-46214.

Episode 225 w/ Brian C Reed Nov 28, 2023

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We are excited to have Brian C Reed, chief mobility office at NowSecure, as a special guest on the Absolute AppSec podcast. Brian has specialized in mobile security, and his company NowSecure works to secure apps, train developers in safe mobile security engineering. As a piece of his work in mobile security, Brian has helped strengthen OWASP MASVS and ADA MASA standards. He also has experience in helping build go-to-market strategies or growth plans for a range of businesses. Be sure to tune in for the discussion and join our slack for further discussion.

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