A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to go to Web Directions Summit 2023 in Sydney, Australia. The main theme of this year’s conference was (of course) AI. In this post we will focus on what we learnt in the areas of AI,...
In this post I will show how you can use tfsec to run security checks against your Terraform code, and address any issues that it finds. Furthermore, we'll use the Terratest Go library to make sure we don't accidentally cause any functional regressions along the...
Recently I worked on a personal project to help support the Linux distro I use as a daily driver, Manjaro. I set up a package mirror to allow users from the community to connect to my server and pull updates or new packages for install....
Upgrading software dependencies to remove known vulnerabilities is important but it can be painful. No engineer likes to do it and it takes time that would otherwise be spent delivering new features. Many organisations ignore the problem, or don’t even realise they have a problem,...
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
So I just attended the 2019 YOW! Conference in Melbourne. There were wacky booths, certified delish food (see picture above), and a whole heap of swag. There was also a star-studded lineup of speakers presenting amazing content that was both insightful and challenging.
This was to be my first OWASP AppSec day so I was unsure of what to expect. I'm pleased to report that it turned out to be one of the best security-related conferences I've attended.
As part of Shine's commitment to always be levelling ourselves up in security, a bunch of us decided to have a go at a CTF (capture the flag) competition....