Issues with Indefinite Trust in Bluetooth

At IncludeSec we of course love to hack things, but we also love to use our skills and insights into security issues to explore innovative solutions, develop tools, and share resources. In this post we share a summary of a recent paper that I published with fellow researchers in the ACM Conference on Security and … Read more

Customizing Semgrep Rules for Flask/Django and Other Popular Web Frameworks

We customize and use Semgrep a lot during our security assessments at IncludeSec because it helps us quickly locate potential areas of concern within large codebases. Static analysis tools (SAST) such as Semgrep are great for aiding our vulnerability hunting efforts and usually can be tied into Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines to help developers catch … Read more

Custom Static Analysis Rules Showdown: Brakeman vs. Semgrep

In application assessments you have to do the most effective work you can in the time period defined by the client to maximize the assurance you’re providing. At IncludeSec we’ve done a couple innovative things to improve the overall effectiveness of the work we do, and we’re always on the hunt for more ways to … Read more