Security News > 2020 > August > Black Hat USA 2020: Critical Meetup.com Flaws Reveal Common AppSec Holes
Critical flaws in the popular Meetup platform were revealed Monday as part of research unleashed at this week's Black Hat USA 2020.
Erez Yalon, the director of security research with Checkmarx, discussed why these critical vulnerabilities are a "Holy grail" for attackers, and explained how the bugs are indicative of overall application security trends that will be discussed this week at Black Hat USA 2020.
We're talking during Black Hat USA 2020, where Checkmarx is announcing some new security research that they came out with.
Now, during Black Hat 2020 Checkmarx's security research team has some new research that you are releasing, and that is specifically focused around Meetup.com.
Now we have Black Hat this week, and what are some of kind of the top threats you expect to be discussed at the conference this year? And, I mean, they might be related to COVID and the ongoing pandemic or election security.