Absolute AppSec Ken Johnson and Seth Law

The dynamic duo is back for their last podcast of 2020!

Lewis Ardern (@LewisArdern) and Pwnfunction (@pwnfunction) join Seth and Ken to talk client-side JavaScript security and their recent Vue JS blog post. https://portswigger.net/research/evading-defences-using-vuejs-script-gadgets

Clint Gibler (@clintgibler) joins Seth and Ken to talk about Static Analysis with Semgrep. Demonstrations of writing rules within Semgrep and how to use it.

Seth and Ken discuss account enumeration vulnerabilities and open source tools that take advantage of them. Discussion about the recent Github Actions vulnerability.

Jacob Salassi (@JacobSalassi) joins us to discuss his developer-driven, standardized, threat modeling process. Also discussions on developer empathy, risk assessment, and other topics.

Mark Feferman (@mfeferman) joins Seth and Ken to throw down about automated static analysis tools. Discussion of applictaion security talent (or lack thereof) and 'shifting left'.