Adelyn Wengreen, a first-time Def Con attendee My first experience at DEF CON was awesome. As someone still new to this industry, I had no idea what to expect going in, but I really enjoyed the whole weekend. My favorite presentation was My Conversations With a GenAI-Powered Virtual Kidnapper by Perry Carpenter. He talked about…
My name is Trevon Greenwood, and I am a Junior Security Analyst at Redpoint Security. This post outlines my experience as a beginner in the field and what a day at work looks like for me. I have been with Redpoint for just over a year now, so I think I’ve accrued enough experience as…
During a recent assessment, our team came upon a vulnerability that felt like finding a hidden door in a seemingly secure fortress. The discovery involved the password-reset mechanism of an application, allowing us to reset any user’s password with just their email address. This flaw circumvents authentication, giving unauthorized access to user accounts. Here’s how…
In the aftermath of the polyfill supply-chain attack that reportedly compromised the security of some 100,000 applications across the Internet last week (arstechnica reports that over 384K sites are still pulling the package subsequently), our team at Redpoint realized quickly that it was a real-world case of feature within Redpoint’s Surveyor tool. That is, lead…
In Redpoint Security’s existence as an application security firm, we have seen a range of clientele who manifest a whole host of differences: development teams and applications that range remarkably small and large, different levels of security maturity, compliance requirements that are relatively lax as opposed to highly demanding with a rapidly rushing SLA (Service-Level…
What happens when combined technologies counteract security controls? This is another in Redpoint’s blog series AppSec Travels where we walk you through interesting findings we’ve discovered in vulnerability assessments. AppSec Travels is on ongoing series without a regular cadence because frankly some assessments are perfunctory security checks lacking in exciting findings and we sort of…
Token Caching This is our first blog of AppSec Travels where we walk you through interesting findings we’ve discovered in vulnerability assessments. This will be on ongoing series without a regular cadence because frankly some assessments are perfunctory security checks lacking in exciting findings and we sort of doubt anyone wants to read findings write-ups…
What we learned from adapting our Application Security 101 course Background: The OWASP Top Ten – An Awareness Document The OWASP Top Ten is a widely-used guide developed by the fine folks at the Open Web Application Security Project that provides a list of the common and critical vulnerabilities in web applications. First published in…
Code security by coders. Manual-led application security assessments, secure-code review, and developer-friendly tooling.