Snowy Clouds – ASW #129
This week, we have the pleasure to welcome back Keith Hoodlet, Senior Manager, Application Experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and former Host of Application Security Weekly, to discuss how Security Is a Feature! In the Application Security News, China's top hacking contest turns months of effort into 15 minutes of exploits, an injection flaw in GitHub Actions, understanding post-compromise activity in exploits targeting Solaris and VoIP, security and quality challenges in integrating software from multiple vendors, and CVE naming turns into wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!
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1. China’s Top Hacking Contest, GitHub Actions, & Vulnonym – ASW #129
China's top hacking contest turns months of effort into 15 minutes of exploits, an injection flaw in GitHub Actions, understanding post-compromise activity in exploits targeting Solaris and VoIP, security and quality challenges in integrating software from multiple vendors, and CVE naming turns into wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!
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2. Security Is a Feature – Keith Hoodlet – ASW #129
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Keith Hoodlet is a Principal Security Specialist for the world’s largest Open Source Software development platform – GitHub.
Named as one of the world’s 50 Influential DevSecOps Professionals on Peerlyst in 2019, Keith has worked on projects such as starting the Application Security Weekly podcast (episodes 0 – 55), as well as restarting the InfoSec Mentors Project with Jimmy Vo in 2015. Keith is also known for his work as an ethical hacker and 2018 MVP on the Bugcrowd platform.
In his free time, Keith enjoys thinking, writing about, and discussing complex problems at the crossroads of Software Development and Information Security; he has delivered both talks and trainings globally on the topics of DevSecOps, Secure Software Development, and Web Application Security.