Application Security News and Articles


Entrust in final talks to acquire Onfido

Entrust has entered into exclusive discussions to acquire Onfido. With this contemplated acquisition, Entrust would add a compliant AI/ML-based biometric and document IDV tech stack to its portfolio of identity solutions. Additionally, Entrust ...

On-premises JetBrains TeamCity servers vulnerable to auth bypass (CVE-2024-23917)

JetBrains has patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-23917) affecting TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and deployment servers. About CVE-2024-23917 CVE-2024-23917 could allow an unauthenticated threat actor ...

Ivanti Connect Secure flaw massively exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-21893)

CVE-2024-21893, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN gateways and Policy Secure (a network access control solution), is being exploited by attackers. About CVE-2024-21893 CVE-2024-21893 allows a ...

Response to Ivanti’s Recent Zero-day Vulnerability Exploitation

AttackIQ has released a new assessment template in response to the recent wave of zero-day vulnerability exploits targeting various appliances produced by software company Ivanti. This assessment template emulates the different Tactics, ...

Navigating the ISO 27001 Certification Process: Step-by-Step

Everything you need to know about getting ISO 27001 certified step-by-step without needing to be a tech wiz. The post Navigating the ISO 27001 Certification Process: Step-by-Step appeared first on Scytale. The post Navigating the ISO 27001 ...

Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them

According to recent surveys, 98% of organizations keep their financial, business, customer and/or employee information in the cloud but, at the same time, 95% of cloud security professionals are not sure their security protections and their team ...

Prowler: Open-source security tool for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure

Prowler is an open-source security tool designed to assess, audit, and enhance the security of AWS, GCP, and Azure. It’s also equipped for incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics preparation. Details The tool ...

What is a Behavioral Risk Indicator? Demystifying Insider Risk Indicators

Insiders – the people with legitimate access to an organization’s data and systems – are the root cause of most cybersecurity incidents. As humans, insider risks are complex. Their behaviors and intentions can manifest in a multitude of ...

Enhancing adversary simulations: Learn the business to attack the business

In this Help Net Security interview, Jamieson O’Reilly, Founder of DVULN, discusses adversary simulations, shedding light on challenges rooted in human behavior, decision-making, and responses to evolving cyber threats. Unveiling the interplay ...

Demystifying SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)

Threat actors aren’t looking for companies of specific sizes or industries, they are looking for opportunities. Given that many companies operate in the dark and overlook breaches until ransomware attacks occur, this makes the threat actors’ ...

Cybersecurity teams hesitate to use automation in TDIR workflows

Despite reported threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) improvements in security operations, more than half of organizations still experienced significant security incidents in the last year, according to Exabeam. North America ...

Whitepaper: Why Microsoft’s password protection is not enough

Microsoft’s Azure AD Password Protection, now rebranded as Microsoft Entra ID helps users create a password policy they hope will protect their systems from account takeover and other identity and access management issues. However, Entra ID has ...

Jenkins Arbitrary File Leak Vulnerability, CVE-2024-23897, Can Lead To RCE

Introduction Jenkins, a Java-based open-source automation server widely used by developers for application building, testing, and deployment, has issued an advisory about a critical vulnerability that could potentially enable remote code ...

Mastering SBOMs: Best practices

In our recent webinar, Mastering SBOMs: Best Practices, speakers, including Ilkka Turunen, Field CTO, Sonatype, Roger Smith, Global Testing and Digital Assurance Lead, DXC Technology, and Marc Luescher, Solution Architect, AWS, shed light on the ...

Legit Security Named in the 2024 Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Cloud-Native Platforms report

Legit Security Named a Sample Vendor for Software Supply Chain Security in the 2024 Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Cloud-Native Platforms report. The post Legit Security Named in the 2024 Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Cloud-Native ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Wen Li, Jinyang Ruan, Guangbei Yi, Long Cheng, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai – PolyFuzz: Holistic Greybox Fuzzing of Multi-Language Systems

Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott; and via the ...

Identity Protection Action Items Following Midnight Blizzard Attack

In light of the Midnight Blizzard’s attack, it’s evident that our cybersecurity strategies must evolve to keep pace with the sophisticated tactics employed by nation-state actors. This particular breach, initiated through a password spray ...

Report Surfaces Extent of SaaS Application Insecurity

A Wing Security survey found nearly all respondents experienced a security incident involving at least one SaaS application. The post Report Surfaces Extent of SaaS Application Insecurity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

New Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Exploited by Threat Actors

Software company Ivanti has recently raised the alarm about two new vulnerabilities impacting its products: Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA gateways. Read on to learn more.   Tell me more about the Ivanti zero-days   ...

Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #277 – When Fixing a Legacy System

via the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard and the lauded Software Engineering / Enterprise Agile Coaching work of Luxshan Ratnaravi at Comic Agilé! Permalink The post Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, ...