Build An Open Source AppSec Pipeline Using Github Actions

Github Actions was launched last November and it has taken a little while to mature but it has recently got to the point where you can build a fairly robust application security pipeline using Github actions. In most of my projects, I can run a Linter, an SCA, a SAST and DAST tool aginst my … Read more

Exploring OSQuery With Jupyter

I have been spending a lot of time over the last few weeks looking at the OSQuery to get a better understanding of what it can do since it seems every major security tool from Sophos to Cisco to CarbonBlack is building it into their product. I have also been looking at Juypter notebooks for … Read more

Zoom Video Backgrounds From Youtube Videos

Did you know you can easily turn any video from Youtube into a background for Zoom (Version 4.6.4+) using a simple command-line tool called Youtube-DL. One of my favorite videos is The Traveling Bird Feeder so I will use it for this example. Install Youtube-dl: brew install youtube-dl  Then fingerprint the video: youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu72ja_mGME … Read more

On-Demand Container Scanning API

Last summer I launched vulnerablecontainers.org to help shed light on the number of vulnerabilities in the 1,000 most popular containers on docker hub.  While it was an interesting project, right after I launched the project I had multiple people ask if it was able to scan other public containers. Initially, it wasn’t but I wanted … Read more

What To See At RSA 2020

With the RSA Conference less than a week away I figured I would spend a few minutes and write a quick post about what I am excited to see this year in San Francisco. Not At RSA Like most security conferences these days while the conference itself is the reason I go the auxiliary events … Read more