Application Security News and Articles


Doubling Down on Security: The Critical Role of Two-Factor Authentication

Safeguarding our online accounts has never been more crucial. One of the most effective tools at our disposal is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). Let’s discuss how 2FA adds an essential layer of protection to your digital life. Two-Factor ...

How Kratikal Helps Businesses Prevent Cyber Attacks?

The rise in cyber attacks has become a major worry. This issue is for organizations where data storage and technical operations are the driving force for business operations. Indeed, cyber attacks are becoming increasingly complex and frequent. ...

DevSecOps 101: Introdução a testes de segurança com Snyk

Implementando testes automatizados de segurança em pipelines CI/CD com SnykContinue reading on Medium »

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

A Critical Examination of Code Vulnerabilities and Cyber Threat MitigationContinue reading on Medium »

Cybersecurity Standards vs Procedures vs Controls vs Policies

Cybersecurity is a vast and complex field, and it’s made more complicated as technology – both infrastructure and in terms of cyberattacks – grows more and more sophisticated. Any large and complex industry grows terminology and jargon like ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Yue Xiao, Zhengyi Li, Yue Qin, Xiaolong Bai, Jiale Guan, Xiaojing Liao, and Luyi Xing – Lalaine: Measuring and Characterizing Non-Compliance of Apple Privacy Labels

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 ...

DevSecOps maturity model: A beginner’s guide

In recent years, DevSecOps swiftly emerged as a crucial new paradigm in software development, prioritizing the integration of security into DevOps practices. The post DevSecOps maturity model: A beginner’s guide appeared first on Security ...

Zero-day Confluence RCE Vulnerability Blocked by Contrast Runtime Security | CVE-2023-22527 | Contrast Security

If your organization is running an older version of Atlassian Confluence Server that’s affected by CVE-2023-22527 — the critical remote-code execution (RCE) zero day discovered recently — you either The post Zero-day Confluence RCE ...

What is DMARC?

The post What is DMARC? appeared first on EasyDMARC. The post What is DMARC? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #276 – Bringing Business and IT Together

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, ...

Cyber security and AI: Should machines be included in your training program?

The post Cyber security and AI: Should machines be included in your training program? appeared first on Click Armor. The post Cyber security and AI: Should machines be included in your training program? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

New Ransomware Reporting Requirements Kick in as Victims Increasingly Avoid Paying

A lower percentage of ransomware victims are paying, as new regulations begin to elicit more and more public disclosure of ransomware incidents. The post New Ransomware Reporting Requirements Kick in as Victims Increasingly Avoid Paying appeared ...

USENIX Security ’23 – POLICYCOMP: Counterpart Comparison of Privacy Policies Uncovers Overbroad Personal Data Collection Practices

Authors/Presenters: Lu Zhou, Chengyongxiao Wei, Tong Zhu, Guoxing Chen, Xiaokuan Zhang, Suguo Du, Hui Cao, Haojin Zhu Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – POLICYCOMP: Counterpart Comparison of Privacy Policies Uncovers Overbroad ...

Novel Threat Tactics, Notable Vulnerabilities, Current Trends, and Data Leaks

Every month, the Pondurance team hosts a webinar to keep clients current on the state of cybersecurity. In December, the team discussed novel tactics, notable vulnerabilities, current trends, and data leaks. Novel Tactics To kick off the webinar, ...

QR Code Scammers are Changing Tactics to Evade Detection

Check Point researchers last year saw a 587% increase between August and September of phishing attacks enticing unsuspecting targets to click on QR codes that then redirect them to malicious pages used for harvesting credentials. The ...

90 Days of Learning, Good Surprises and Extreme Optimism

January is often a time for reflection, and setting goals and aspirations for the months and the year ahead. It’s actually my favorite time of the year. For me, this January is especially significant as it marks the end of my first 90 days as ...

Why We Need to Cultivate a Confidential Computing Ecosystem

The development of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) can resolve the tension between data privacy and utility. The post Why We Need to Cultivate a Confidential Computing Ecosystem appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/26/24

Insight #1 Spray and pray: That’s the modus operandi behind the latest successful attack against Microsoft, which resulted in compromise of the company’s email systems. The attackers reportedly got in through an old testing environment, which ...

Web Vulnerability Submissions Exploded in 2023

There was an alarming surge of user-submitted web vulnerability submissions in 2023—with a 30% increase compared to 2022—as open-scoped bug bounty programs evolved. The post Web Vulnerability Submissions Exploded in 2023 appeared first on ...

Chatbots and Human Conversation

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed instructions, delivered through punch cards; then came a command-line interface, ...