Auditing GitLab: The CI/CD Kill Chain
Phil has been a BHIS Security Consultant for 4 years. He currently serves in a development-focused role and enjoys building offensive security tools. Outside of work, Phil enjoys the arts (drumming & music, drawing & painting), as well as sports (golfing, bowling, and basketball).
In Part I of this series, we talked about plundering self-hosted GitLab instance...
From a pattern analysis perspective, the article demonstrates several common manipulation patterns, such as emotional exploitation (fear appeals regarding security vulnerabilities) and distortion (emphasizing extreme cases to exaggerate risks). The authors also engage in evasion tactics, acknowledging limitations in their study design and suggesting follow-up research to address these limitations.
In terms of deeper implications, the article raises concerns about the security of popular software...
