Just two old men bi***ing and moaning about App Sec and the price of a good pair of New Balances. Real discussion on dealing with burnout and imposter syndrome. How to stay engaged and interested when the excitement becomes mundane.

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Episode Ep. 149 - Burnout, AppSec News Sources

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Facebook outage and BGP routing. A new issue of phrack released on Oct 5 results a discussion on the good ol' days, BBSes, and the commercialization of security. Finally, thoughts on paved paths and how they affect security.

Episode Ep. 148 - Facebook, Phrack, Paved Path

The one and only James Kettle (@albinowax) of Portswigger joins Seth and Ken to talk about his path into security, HTTP request smuggling, and how to perform security research.

Episode Ep. 147 - James Kettle (@albinowax), Security Research

Now with the latest in old people ramblings. Discussion about the OWASP Top 10 Draft list and how the Top 10 should be used as an awareness document. Discussions on bug bounties with surprise guest Jason Haddix (@JHaddix). More fun with HTTP Request Smuggling.

Episode Ep. 146 - OWASP Top 10, Bug Bounties with @JHaddix, Request Smuggling

@cktricky is _back_ with a newfound lease on life (and application security). The duo discusses in-person vs. virtual conferences, DEF CON 29, burnout, vulnerabilities in dating apps. A demonstration of using Burp Suite to fuzz a user enumeration vulnerability and brute-force an account.

Episode Ep. 145 - Return of @cktricky, Burnout, Bumble Vuln, Brute-Forcing

With @cktricky still on hiatus, @sethlaw and @lojikil talk fuzzing, property testing, semantic analysis and demo radamsa.

Episode Ep. 144 - Fuzzing, Radamsa, Property Testing

With @cktricky out adventuring, @sethlaw is joined by a familiar face (@lojikil) to dive deeply into recent research presented at Black Hat/DEF CON, HTTP/2, and how everything old is new again.

Episode Ep. 143 - HTTP/2, Black Hat/DEFCON, Kubernetes

Dreamin', Beamin', and Streamin' about using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate code (*cough*, *cough*). When and where to use automated source code analysis tools, specifically Puma Scan for .Net/C# code. Also a primer on HTTP Request Smuggling and what you should know about it.

Episode Ep. 142 - AI Code Generation, Puma Scan, HTTP Request Smuggling

Just two grumpy old men with some AppSec sprinkled in. Topics this week include new research from portswigger using print to bypass new Chrome XSS iframe restrictions, how XSS is still the best (and worst) issue we deal with, and Microsoft's acquisition of RiskIQ.

Episode Ep. 141 - print(), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), RiskIQ, Amass Demo

Naomi Buckwalter (@ineedmorecyber) joins Ken and Seth in a discussion about security gatekeeping, how anyone can get into application security, and the relationships between development and security.

Episode Ep. 140 - Naomi Buckwalter - Gatekeeping, Developing AppSec Resources

Stefan returns and we pick his brain about information security degrees, format strings, and different testing methodologies. Then we spend most of the episode googling the words that come out of his mouth.

Episode Ep. CXXXIX - Return of the @lojikil (Stefan Edwards)

The duo is back to talk about consulting scheduling and ransomware. Somehow this evolved to a discussion on Hipster Vulns and how auditing is the Crocs-n-SOCs of application security.

Episode 138: Ransomware

Live from their parent's basement and dripping with tin foil - Seth and Ken talk about how CSRF is a thing in GraphQL. Kubernetes gets an intentionally-vulnerable setup, and you should definitely check the security of your docker. Finally, some noise about the NoSQL Injection Cheat Sheet.

Episode 137: CSRF, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL Injection

Back off of a week's break, Seth and Ken catch up on breach news. A return of security nihilism is also in order based on recent breaches and exploits.

Episode 136: AppSec Nihilism and Breaches

Punchy and Grumpy are back at it starting with a discussion on GoSDL and how it integrates with developer workflows. Followed by a discussion on language choice/experience, Cisco's acquisition of Kenna Security, and more dependency confusion in gem files.

Episode 135: GoSDL, Language Choice, Kenna, Dependency Confusion

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