AppSec Now
AppSec Now covers the latest application security news and features interviews with guests from the application security community. Each episode highlights top stories and trends in appsec, offering insights for security professionals and enthusiasts. The show aims to keep listeners informed about emerging threats and best practices.
Episodes
Tackling CVE Chaos, Parquet Tool Insights, and EU Cyber Resilience Act Unpacked
🔒 Welcome to this week’s episode of AppSecNow, the DevCentral podcast dedicated to all things application security! 🚨 This week, we unpack critical updates including:💥 A zero-day SAP CVE with a CVSS score of 10—what it means, how it's being exploited, and what you can do to defend against it.🛠️ A groundbreaking Parquet tool from F5 Labs that simplifies vulnerability testing for critical supply
EV Car Hacking, AI-Generated Passports, & Japan’s Active Cyber Defense Bill
Join Merlyn Chase, MegaZone, and Aubrey on this week’s AppSec Now podcast as they dive into the latest topics in application security! 🚀 From the recent B-Sides Seattle conference to critical discussions on EV car hacking, cybersecurity quandaries, AI-generated passports bypassing KYC, and Japan’s groundbreaking Active Cyber Defense Bill—you don’t want to miss this one. Plus, learn how AppSecNow i
Amazon EC2 SSRF Breach, Oracle Cloud Breach & Malicious NPM Packages Exposed
Join our AppSec experts—Merlyn, Malcolm, MegaZone, and host Chase Abbott—as they dig into some of the latest stories shaking up the cybersecurity world. This week's AppSec Now explores an active campaign targeting Amazon EC2 instance metadata via SSRF vulnerabilities, and why that's a wider-reaching problem than you might think. We discuss Oracle's controversial handling of their cloud breach and
NGINX Kubernetes IngressNightmare, Critical Next.js CVE, Chrome Zero Day - Ep.32
Dive into the latest episode of AppSecNow, where we break down the Ingress Nightmare vulnerability impacting NGINX and Kubernetes environments, plus the implications of a critical CVE in Next.js, one of the most widely-used JavaScript frameworks with 9 million weekly downloads.Join Aubrey, Chase, and Merlyn for expert analysis on the security landscape, from Chromium Zero Day concerns to ransomwar
Vibe Coding, F5 Labs Bot Report, Google Buys Wiz And More | AppSec Now Ep 31
Welcome to the 31st episode of AppSec Now! This week, our hosts Aubrey, David Warburton, Chase Abbott, and MegaZone get into some hot topics in the world of application security. Our focus is on the latest F5 Labs Advanced Persistent Bots report, highlighting the ever-evolving landscape of bot attacks and the importance of robust mitigation strategies. We analyze Google's hefty $32 million acq
Latest AppSec Threats: Coinbase Phishing, BRUTED, OBSCURE#BAT, KoSpy And More!
Join us for the thirtieth episode of AppSecNow, a DevCentral podcast dedicated to the latest trends and threats in the application security (AppSec) world. In this episode, host Aubrey King is joined by Malcolm Heath, Chase Abbott, and MegaZone to dive into recent security incidents and developments, including a detailed analysis of the Coinbase phishing scam, the resurgence of user-mode rootkits
Latest in AppSec: Apache Camel RCE, X DDoS, Silk Typhoon, and Encryption Debates
Welcome to the latest episode of AppSec Now, a DevCentral podcast dedicated to the ever-evolving world of application security. In this episode, Chase takes the reins while Aubrey is away, joined by Malcolm Heath, a principal researcher at F5 Labs, and the illustrious MegaZone, a principal security engineer on the SIRT team.We dive deep into the recent Apache Camel remote code execution vulnerabil
Exploring CISA Layoffs, Microsoft's Quantum Chip, MongoDB Vulnerabilities & More
Join Aubrey, MegaZone, and Merlyn in this week's episode of AppSec Now as they dive into the latest in application security. This week, we discuss Microsoft's groundbreaking Majorana One chip, capable of scaling up to a million qubits and its potential impact on quantum computing. We also explore the recent critical vulnerabilities in MongoDB libraries and OpenSSH, analyzing their implicat
Understanding The TikTok Ban, Salt Typhoon And More | AppSec Monthly January Ep.27
In this episode of AppSec Monthly, join our host, MegaZone, joined by Malcolm Heath, Merlyn Albery-Speyer and Aubrey King, as they dive into the latest cybersecurity news. We explore the complexities of the TikTok ban, the impact of geopolitical decisions on internet freedom, and the nuances of data sovereignty. Our experts also discuss the implications of recent breaches by Chinese state actors a
Cybersecurity Predictions 2025: Insights from F5 Labs | December Special AppSec Monthly Ep.26
Welcome to our special year-end episode of AppSec Monthly, a DevCentral podcast! In this exciting edition, we join forces with the experts at F5 Labs to bring you our highly anticipated cybersecurity predictions for the year ahead. Our panel, including David Warburton, Aubrey King, and Megazone, dives deep into the trends and emerging threats that are set to shape the cybersecurity landscape in 20
Episode 25 - November 2024 - F5 Labs Black Friday Report, 2025 OWASP LLM Apps Top 10 And More
Welcome to the latest episode of AppSec Monthly! In this episode, we delve into IT policies, recent cybersecurity trends, and sophisticated attack detection with industry experts David Warburton, Malcolm Heath, and MegaZone.
Special guests Adeolu and Shuang from F5 Labs share their latest research on Black Friday shopping trends, automation, and bot attacks, providing insights into the types of bo
Episode 24 - October 2024 - F5 Labs APIWorld CTF, CUPS & Hyundai Vulnerabilities And More
Welcome to another exciting episode of AppSec Monthly, brought to you by DevCentral! This month, we dive deep into various aspects of application security with contributions from Aaron Brailsford, Malcolm Heath, and MegaZone!
We discuss the importance of integrating security early in the development process, the critical role of trust in cybersecurity, and the recent buzz around CUPS vulnerabili
Episode 23 - July 2024 - F5 Labs DDoS Report, CrowdStrike
After a small summer break, the gang's back and talking DDoS with F5 Labs' new DDoS Report. David Warburton lays it all out for us after a healthy dose of news with Aaron Brailsford, Malcolm Heath and, for the first time, MegaZone! Tune in for this action packed episode 23 for July of 2024!
Episode 22 - May 2024 - Security Authoring, Speaking At RSAC
In May of 2024, Aubrey King, from DevCentral, went to #RSAC. While there, he got a chance to hook up with Steve Wilson and Ken Huang to talk about security authoring - 'how to get going' and 'what's the process like?' - before catching up with Akira Brand, who talks about speaking at RSA and more!
It's an action packed Episode 22 before we even get to our roundtable, where
Episode 21 - April 2024 - How AI Changes The Game For Red And Blue Teamers
In Episode 21, we change our name! Welcome AppSec Monthly, goodbye This Month In Security. In addition to that new in April of 2024, DevCentral's Aubrey King catches up with Semgrep's Jonathan Werrett to talk about how the AI phenomenon changes the game for Red and Blue Teamers out there in the security world. Also, Aubrey catches up with DevCentral OG, Peter Silva, to talk about 5g securi
Episode 20 - March 2024 - APISec University's 2024 API Security Market Review
DevCentral's Aubrey King is joined by Dave Warburton, Malcolm Heath and Aaron Brailsford this month for the roundtable and he shares a conversation with Dan Barahona about the APISec University 2024 API Security Market Review they just published and shares the news about APISec Con, coming up on May 22. There's also a teaser of an #AppWorld2024 AI API Security panel conversation between Au
Episode 19 - February 2024 - AI App Security For IoT Edge Devices
In Episode 19 of This Month In Security, Aubrey King catches back up with Tashaffi Samin Yeasar to talk about her daily grind and an IoT coder who's using AI at the edge and some of the security implications of Edge AI. Also, Byron McNaught jumps into the monthly roundtable with Aaron Brailsford and David Warburton, where they talked a bit about AI and deepfakes, as well as some of the latest
Episode 18 - Jan 2024 - From SBOM To WAF Policy
This Month In Security, Aubrey King gets to talk to DevCentral MVP Daniel Wolf about how he recommends customers build WAF policy from SBOM. Aaron Brailsford shares the roundtable with Malcolm Heath and Sander Vinberg. Also, we get a sample from This Week In Security.
Bonus: This Week In Security Jan 15 - 21 2024 - Ancient VMWare Exploit, 37C3 Videos And More!
This week in security, our editor is AaronJB, who brings news of a VMWare exploit that might be older than Aubrey! Also, countless exploits and some amazing videos from The 37th Chaos Communication Congress.
Read the full article here: https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/time-to-exploit-and-large-scale-breaches-jan-15th-21st-2024-f5/ta-p/327201
This Week In Security is a contribution to
Bonus: This Week In Security Jan 7 - 14 2024 - Github Runner Poisoning, F-Bot, Hadoop Attacks
This Week In Security, our editor is Jordan_Zebor, who shows the community about Github's Runner Poisoning, a cloud threat called F-Bot and an attack on Hadoop!
Read the full article here:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/compromised-ci-cd-fbot-and-hadoop-attacks-jan-7th-14th-2023-f5/ta-p/326973
This Week In Security is a contribution to DevCentral by the F5 Security Incident R
Bonus: This Week In Security Jan 1 - 5 2024 - Gmail Guidelines, GPS Spoofing And More
This Week In Security, our editor was Koichi and he brings us news about a faked public website, new Gmail Sender Guidelines, a GPS Spoofing attack and the OWASP Top 10 For Large Language Model Applications.
Read the full article here:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/fake-website-gmail-guideline-gps-spoofing-owasp-llm-jan-1st-5th/ta-p/326724
This Week In Security is a contribution
Episode 17 - Dec. - 2023 Look Back, F5 Labs 2024 Predictions Report
Aubrey King recaps 2023 in a look back for the podcast before he's joined by Aaron Brailsford, Malcolm Heath and David Warburton to go over the F5 Labs 2024 Predictions report. Happy New Year to all of our listeners and viewers out there!
Bonus: This Week In Security Dec. 10 - Dec. 17 - Play Ransomware, OpenSSH 9.6, Google Privacy
This Week In Security, our editor was Nagi, who filled us in on the Play Ransomware Advisory, the OpenSSH 9.6 release, the latest Bruce Schneier essay, Google's ending of geofence warrants via Google Maps and so much more!
Read the full article here:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/ransomware-openssh-ai-and-trust-google-geofence-dec-10-17-2023/ta-p/325857
This Week In Security
Bonus: This Week In Security Dec. 3 - Dec. 10 - HuggingFace API Token Exposure, Glass Storage
This Week In Security for 11/27-12/3, 2023, can be found on F5 DevCentral here:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/exposed-hf-api-tokens-hacks-ms-news-dec-3-10-2023-f5-sirt-this/ta-p/325561
This Week In Security is a contribution to DevCentral by the F5 Security Incident Response Team and you can find it in our Technical Articles section every week.
Bonus: This Week In Security Nov. 20 - Nov. 26, 2023: MeridianLink Attack, MOVEit Look Back & More
This Week In Security for 11/20-11/26, 2023, can be found on F5 DevCentral here:
https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-articles/once-more-with-feeling-nov-20-26-2023-f5-sirt-this-week-in/ta-p/324985
This Week In Security is a contribution to DevCentral by the F5 Security Incident Response Team and you can find it in our Technical Articles section every week.
Episode 16 - Nov. - Identity Threat Report, AI Security & Governance Checklist
This Month In Security, Aubrey King and the crew try out a new show format. Aubrey catches up with Sandy Dunn, CISO, about her work on the AI Security And Governance Checklist. In addition, Sander talks to the roundtable about his latest contribution to Labs, The 2023 Identity Threat Report. David Warburton's back, as well, and sits in with Aaron Brailsford and malcolm Heath for the monthly ro
Episode 15 - October - Elder Care Security / Release Lead / Lori MacVittie
This Month In Security, Aubrey King catches up with Ads on his involvement as a release lead for the OWASP Top Ten For Large Language Model Applications. Also, we hear from a fellow speaker at B-Sides Ottawa, Tashaffi Samin Yeassar, regarding her talk on Elder Care Security and how to pick a topic for your talk. Plus, Lori MacVittie joins the roundtable with Aubrey and Malcolm Heath.
00:00 CyberS
Episode 14 - September - ML Top 10 & Vuln4Cast
This Month In Security, Aubrey King welcomes OWASP Top 10 for ML Applications Leads, Shain Singh and Sagar Bhure to find out more about the project. Sander Vinberg also shares his takeaways from the Vuln4Cast Colloquium and we welcome Malcolm Heath for a roundtable.
00:00 Introduction
01:31 Vuln4Cast
07:09 OWASP Top 10 for ML Apps
19:07 RoundTable
29:47 Outro
Episode 13: August, 2023 - OpenSSF / Hacker Summer Camp
Join Aubrey King, from DevCentral, as he talks with a record number of guests - 8 - for August, 2023 This Month In Security! Topics are OpenSSF and "Hacker Summer Camp" in Las Vegas (B-Sides, BlackHat, Defcon), as well as the latest news. You'll hear from David Wheeler, from the Linux Foundation, Akira Brand, from Application Security Weekly podcast and F5'ers Buu Lam, Christine
Episode 12 - July - Cybersecurity Apprenticeship & Large Language Models
If you're hitting up BlackHat 2023, you're going to hear a LOT about Large Language Model security, which dominated the news this month in security. Also, Aubrey King talks with Jason Ross, from Rochester Institute of Technology and Jenn Carlson, from Apprenti, about cybersecurity apprenticeship options.
00:00 Introduction
01:44 CyberSecurity Apprenticeship @ RIT
06:26 Apprenti Skill Ass
Episode 11 - May / June, 2023 - NXDOMAIN / Water Torture
DevCentral's Aubrey King takes you through the (more than a) month of May (and June, too)in This Month In Security Episode 11. NXDOMAIN and Water Torture / Resource Exhaustion attacks against DNS are fairly prominent in an interview of Amina Mubeen, Security Support Engineer and with our newest Real Attack Story from DevCentral. Aaron Brailsford, Malcolm Heath and Sander Vinberg cover the late
Episode 10: April, 2023 - RSA Edition
This Episode, Aubrey King talks with Aaron Brailsford and Amina Mubeen about the latest happenings in security. He also meets up live with David Warburton, Sander Vinberg and Malcolm Heath, from F5 Labs in SanFrancisco at RSA 2023 to discuss conference perspectives and the Labs presentations this year. Strap on those earbuds!
00:00 Introduction
01:54 RSA Conference Recap
27:40 The Cybersecurity H
Episode 09: March, 2023 w/ Ben Edwards
Special guest, Ben Edwards, from The Cyentia Institute, joins Aubrey King, Aaron Brailsford and Sander Vinberg on This Month In Security for March, 2023. In addition to some of the latest security news, we focus on CVE, CVSS and the future of threat prediction research, plus we get to hear a tease on Ben and Sander's forthcoming RSA talk.
00:00 Introduction: Ben Edwards
03:22 Ben & Sander
Episode 08: February 2023 w/ Akira Brand
Aubrey King, Aaron Brailsford and Malcolm Heath welcome special guest, Akira Brand, co-host of the Application Security Weekly podcast, for a chat this month about career paths, podcasting and the hottest news this month... in security.
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Akira on Application Security Weekly podcast
04:58 Discussion on career paths
17:58 Generalist vs. Specialist / Red vs. Blue
32:17 LastPa
Episode 07: January, 2023 w/ Brian McHenry
For the Month of January, 2023, Aubrey King sits down for a chat with Brian McHenry, Security PM, to talk about his role in starting the #Security B-Sides NYC Chapter and more, then Brian and Aubrey join Aaron Brailsford and David Warburton for the top of mind cybersecurity news from January.
This Month In Security is a monthly, long-format, community driven technology Podcast, focused on malware
Episode 06: December, 2022
Aubrey King hosts the monthly security podcast with Aaron Brailsford & David Warburton. The final show of the year focuses on the three most critical segments of the year and a look at some predictions from F5 Labs' 2023 Predictions report.
This Month In Security is a monthly, long-format, community driven technology Podcast, focused on malware, bots, dos and so much more in the realm of
Episode 05: November, 2022
Aubrey King hosts the monthly security podcast with Aaron Brailsford, Sander Vinberg and Malcolm Heath. Discussion on the month's most relevant security happenings, including updates on guidance from CISA, a Dropbox breach, Supply Chain security and the SANS ICA Hyper-Encabulator!
00:00 Introduction
00:48 ANCIENT SQLite Vulnerability
10:11 Latest CISA Supply Chain Guidance
17:38 DropBox Breac
Episode 04: October, 2022
This month's news includes some Supply Chain Security, Guidance from CISA and a worrisome UEFI Bootkit
October's feature story is Reseller Bots. What are they and how do they impact you?
00:00 Intro..
01:25 CISA Guidance
09:10 LofyGang Supply Chain News
15:40 MS Exchange Zero Days
23:27 Black Lotus UEFI BootKit
30:53 Labs Updates: Post-Breach, CIS
34:04 Labs Feature: Reseller Bots
42:2
Episode 03: September 2022
DevCentral's Aubrey King sits down with Aaron Brailsford, from F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), Malcolm Heath and Sander Vinberg - both from F5 Labs - and break everything out, in-depth. In this episode, we talk about software supply chain security, the dangers of hard-coded credentials, package management, side-loading mobile applications and more. We also get to review and postulat
Episode 02: August 2022
Join DevCentral's Aubrey King and SIRT's Aaron Brailsford as they break down the past month in cybersecurity news in and around the industry!
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Episode 01: July, 2022
DevCentral & SIRT Present: This Month In Security
Aubrey King hooks up with Aaron Brailsford to recap top stories for the month in F5 Security. This month we discuss some academic processor side-channel vulnerabilities, as well as covering UEFI vulnerabilities, some rather alarming disclosures in a popular data center application and much more!
00:00 Introduction
02:26 Academics: New Process
