Application Security News and Articles


How Can NHIs Enhance Overall System Security?

How Can NHIs Serve as the Crucial Backbone in Overall System Protection? What if there was a foolproof method for safeguarding your organization’s systems and data from potential threats? A diligent layer of security that offers complete ...

Why Proactive NHI Management is a Must?

Is Proactive NHI Management Our Best Bet Against Cyber Threats? The importance of non-human identities (NHIs) in cybersecurity cannot be overstated. These unique identifiers for automated systems and machine-to-machine communication form the ...

Are Your Cloud Secrets Safe From Threats?

Why Is Secrets Management Crucial for Your Cloud Environment? Do you think your cloud infrastructure is immune to threats? If you believe that solely relying on encrypted passwords, keys, or tokens is enough, you might want to reconsider. My ...

Secure Your Machine Identities Effectively

Why are Machine Identities Crucial to Cybersecurity Strategies? How often do we ruminate about the myriad of digital interactions happening behind the scenes of our daily operations? Machine-to-machine communication forms the backbone of modern ...

Top 10 Challenges Implementing DMARC in GWS

Let's talk about the real story behind Google's DMARC maze, shall we? (You might want to go pour yourself a cup of coffee, this’ll take ~14 minutes, but it’s the guide I wish I had.) The post Top 10 Challenges Implementing DMARC in GWS ...

LinuxFest Northwest: See How Far COSMIC Has Come This Year

Author/Presenter: Carl Richell (CEO and Founder, System76, Inc.) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their ...

OAuth 2.0 Security Best Practices: How to Secure OAuth Tokens & Why Use PKCE

Introduction Keeping your applications secure while offering a smooth user experience can be tricky — especially when working with OAuth 2.0. This popular framework makes it easy to give users access without sharing passwords, but if not ...

Kali Linux 2025.2 delivers Bloodhound CE, CARsenal, 13 new tools

OffSec has released Kali Linux 2025.2, the most up-to-date version of the widely used penetration testing and digital forensics platform. KDE Plasma 6.3 in Kali Linux 2025.2 (Source: OffSec) New in Kali Linux 2025.2 As per usual, the newest Kali ...

DNS Rebind Protection Revisited

After this week’s attention to META and Yandex localhost abuses, it is time to revisit a core feature/option of protective DNS that offers a feel-good moment to those that applied this safety technique long before this abuse report came ...

News alert: Arsen launches AI-powered vishing simulation to help combat voice phishing at scale

Paris, Jun. 3, 2025, CyberNewswire–Arsen, the cybersecurity startup known for defending organizations against social engineering threats, has announced the release of its new Vishing Simulation module, a cutting-edge tool designed to train ...

LinuxFest Northwest: Chaos Testing Of A Postgres Cluster On Kubernetes

Author/Presenter: Nikolay Sivko (Co-Founder And CEO At Coroot) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb ...

Shadow AI: Examples, Risks, and 8 Ways to Mitigate Them

Uncover the hidden risks of Shadow AI and learn 8 key strategies to address it. The post Shadow AI: Examples, Risks, and 8 Ways to Mitigate Them appeared first on Security Boulevard.

ISO 27001 Risk Register Setup: Step-by-Step Guide

While we talk a lot on this site about the US Government’s various cybersecurity frameworks, like FedRAMP and CMMC, there’s one significant framework that deserves just as much attention: ISO 27001. ISO 27001, being an ISO standard, is an ...

Meta AI is a ‘Privacy Disaster’ — OK Boomer

More Meta mess: Pundits accuse Zuckerberg’s latest app has a “dark pattern,” tricking the over 50s into oversharing. The post Meta AI is a ‘Privacy Disaster’ — OK Boomer appeared first on Security Boulevard.

HR’s 2025 Guide to Preventing Interview and Onboarding Fraud

A Wake-Up Call for HR in the Age of Deepfakes and Remote Work In 2025, HR leaders are facing a new kind of threat: highly convincing fake applicants, AI-powered resume fraud, and deepfake interview proxies. What used to be fringe or far-fetched ...

Zero-Click Flaw in Microsoft Copilot Illustrates AI Agent, RAG Risks

Aim Security researchers found a zero-click vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that could have been exploited to have AI tools like RAG and AI agents hand over sensitive corporate data to attackers simply by issuing a request for the ...

A Guide to Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Shared Responsibility Model

Kubernetes is powerful, but managing it in-house can be a major drain on your engineering resources. That’s why many organizations are turning to Fairwinds Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS): we handle the complexity, so you can focus on ...

LinuxFest Northwest: Easy Modular Sensors And Automation

Author/Presenter: Sam Groveman (Research Associate) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest ...

How identity management is shifting into the agent era

We’re witnessing a shift in enterprise architecture: AI agents are moving from supporting roles to autonomous actors that drive decisions, trigger transactions, and interact directly with APIs — often on behalf of users. As a result, identity ...

In Other News: Cloudflare Outage, Cracked.io Users Identified, Victoria’s Secret Cyberattack Cost

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Cloudflare outage not caused by cyberattack, Dutch police identified 126 users of Cracked.io, the Victoria’s Secret cyberattack has cost $10 million.  The post In Other News: ...