Application Security News and Articles


37% of third-party applications have high-risk permissions

Email attacks have increased in both sophistication and volume since the start of the year, according to Abnormal Security. Examining data since 2013, Abnormal identified a massive increase in third-party applications (apps) integrated with ...

The Power of Risk-Based Authentication With HYPR Adapt

Organizations globally face unprecedented challenges in safeguarding their sensitive data, critical assets, and reputation from cyber threats. Legacy authentication methods are not sufficient to thwart sophisticated attacks and evolving risks. ...

Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q3 2023

Great blog posts are sometimes hard to find (especially on Medium), so I decided to do a periodic list blog with my favorite posts of the past quarter or so. Here is the next one. The posts below are ranked by lifetime views. This covers both ...

The Road Ahead: Adapting to the Generative AI Cybersecurity Landscape

Finding the right equilibrium between leveraging generative AI for cybersecurity and mitigating its potential drawbacks is crucial. Explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in this thought-provoking post. The post The Road Ahead: ...

Hacking With Your Nemesis

In the first post in this series, On (Structured) Data, we talked about the gap area of offensive structured data and ended with the question, “If all of our offensive tools produced and worked with structured data, what would be possible?” ...

Cequence named winner in the Enterprise Security Tech 2023 Cyber Top 20 Awards List

Cequence is pleased to announce that we have been named to the Enterprise Security Tech 2023 Cyber Top 20 Awards List for our Unified API Protection (UAP) platform! The Cyber Top 20 honors organizations shaping the future of cybersecurity and ...

Fortra Introduces New Integrations for Offensive Security

The post Fortra Introduces New Integrations for Offensive Security appeared first on Digital Defense. The post Fortra Introduces New Integrations for Offensive Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Threat Spotlight: Stealer Logs & Corporate Access

Executive Overview Over the last three years, infostealer malware variants have become a “popular trend” in the cybercriminal Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystem. Doing precisely as their category implies, these malware variants steal ...

CrowdStrike Launches Managed Service Focused on Protecting Credentials

CrowdStrike's new managed service focuses on disrupting cybercriminals who compromise credentials. The post CrowdStrike Launches Managed Service Focused on Protecting Credentials appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Defender Pretender: When Windows Defender Updates Become a Security Risk

See how SafeBreach Labs Researchers uncovered multiple attack vectors that exploit the Windows Defender update process to gain control. The post Defender Pretender: When Windows Defender Updates Become a Security Risk appeared first on ...

BSides Leeds 2023 – Michael Ndon – Stop Breaking Into Cyber Security

Thanks are in order to BSides Leeds for publishing their presenter’s outstanding BSides Leeds 2023 security content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSides Leeds 2023 – Michael Ndon – Stop Breaking Into ...

White House Offers Prize Money for Hacker-Thwarting AI

The White House launched an Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge competition for creating new AI systems that can defend critical software from hackers. The post White House Offers Prize Money for Hacker-Thwarting AI appeared first on ...

Western Digital, Synology NAS Vulnerabilities Exposed Millions of Users’ Files

Critical vulnerabilities discovered in WD and Synology NAS devices could have exposed the files of millions of users. The post Western Digital, Synology NAS Vulnerabilities Exposed Millions of Users’ Files appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Threat Roundup: Microsoft August Patch Tuesday & New PaperCut Vulnerability

August is off to a busy start for cyberthreats. In this article, we’ll recap Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday announcement and the new PaperCut vulnerability. Read on to learn more.   What’s the update from Microsoft and PaperCut? ...

NetRise unveils SBOM and vulnerability prioritization solutions to enhance XIoT firmware security

NetRise announced advanced capabilities for maintaining and working with Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and support for the CISA’s KEV Catalog for managing and understanding the risks associated with software components in the firmware ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Solar Panel Placement’

via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, resident at XKCD! Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Solar Panel Placement’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Gurucul launches Sme AI to improve threat detection and response capabilities

Gurucul has launched its new generative AI capability called Sme (Subject Matter Expert) to accelerate threat detection, supercharge security investigations and automate responses. Sme AI empowers Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts with ...

Dynatrace Security Analytics detects and blocks common application attacks

Dynatrace introduced Security Analytics, a new Dynatrace platform solution designed to help organizations better defend against threats to their hybrid and multicloud environments. Dynatrace Security Analytics leverages Davis AI, which combines ...

EvilProxy Phishing Campaign Targets High-Level Executives

Threat actors are using the EvilProxy phishing platform to get around multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections in the Microsoft 365 accounts of high-level corporate executives in a sprawling campaign that highlights the growing popularity ...

Vicarius vuln_GPT enables security teams to find and fix software vulnerabilities

Vicarius launched vuln_GPT, an LLM model trained to generate remediation scripts for software vulnerabilities in the race to find and fix vulnerabilities faster than hackers. The vuln_GPT engine will be freely offered within vsociety, Vicarius’ ...