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Episode 297 - True/False Positives, Phishing Package Maintainers

Author
Ken Johnson and Seth Law
Published
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Episode Link
https://absolute-appsec-eps.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/episodes/Absolute_AppSec_Ep_297.mp3

The Absolute AppSec duo returns with an in-depth episode talking about true and false positives, where context matters and business impact must be taken into account in order to avoid rabbit holes. This discussion spurred by a recent article from signalblur of magonia.io discussing alerts in a security operations center. In short, only considering existence of a flaw (or alert) is not enough by itself. True impact comes by understanding context. Anyone want t-shirts? A discussion of the recent successful phish of an npm package maintainer, resulting in exposure of millions of projects depending on popular npm packages. It happens, folks, protect yourself.

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