Application Security News and Articles


MOVEit Transfer hack fallout: BBC, Aer Lingus, Boots among the victims

The fallout of the MOVEit Transfer hack via CVE-2023-34362 by the Cl0p gang is expanding, as several UK-based companies have now confirmed that some of their data has been stolen. Victimized organizations The confirmed victims so far are Zellis, ...

Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape: The Vulnerability of C-Suite Executives’ Personal Digital Lives

Corporate executives, a group traditionally considered the powerhouse of organizations, have become an alluring target for cybercriminals. Attacks on executives are not merely confined within the walls of their professional sphere, but also ...

Our Gift to the Community – FREE Platform for addressing the web security requirements in PCI DSS 4.0

Some things in security and compliance should be easy. Furthermore, if we truly want to fulfill our collective mission of protecting the world’s organizations and the customers they serve from harm, some things should also be given to the ...

Certificate Transparency Does More Harm Than Good – Here’s Why

With Google’s recent decision to change the lock icon, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about TLS/SSL - and certificate transparency in general. In this blog post, I’ll explore both how Certificate Transparency is helpful and the ...

Google Patches Third Chrome Zero-Day of 2023

Google has released a Chrome 114 security update that patches CVE-2023-3079, the third zero-day vulnerability patched in the browser in 2023. The post Google Patches Third Chrome Zero-Day of 2023 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cyber Attack Due to Malicious Open-source Package

Introduction Open-source tools and packages are an essential part of the modern software development ecosystem. They are widely used by developers to speed up the development process and reduce the amount of work required to build complex ...

Data Privacy Alert: Toyota Apologizes for Prolonged Data Leakage Due to Cloud Misconfiguration

Introduction: The automotive industry has witnessed a significant shift towards utilizing cloud technologies and collecting data from vehicles. This data collection serves several crucial purposes, including enhancing vehicle performance, ...

RSAC Fireside Chat: Dealing with the return of computing workloads to on-premises datacenters

A cloud migration backlash, of sorts, is playing out. Related: Guidance for adding ZTNA to cloud platforms Many companies, indeed, are shifting to cloud-hosted IT infrastructure, and beyond that, to containerization and serverless ...

D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944

“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . ...

Leveraging large language models (LLMs) for corporate security and privacy

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Brand The digital world is vast and ever-evolving, and central to this evolution are large language ...

Apple announces next-level privacy and security innovations

Apple announced its latest privacy and security innovations, including major updates to Safari Private Browsing, Communication Safety, and Lockdown Mode, as well as app privacy improvements. Additionally, Apple introduced new features designed ...

Generative AI’s influence on data governance and compliance

In this Help Net Security video, Michael Rinehart, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Securiti.ai, discusses a dark side to generative AI that isn’t talked about enough. Organizations must remember that anything that goes into the learning ...

CISOs focus more on business strategy than threat research

CISOs and ITDMs (IT security decision-makers) continue to be most occupied with business, IT and security program strategy, but they are spending less time on threat research, awareness and hunting compared to 2022, according to Nuspire. The ...

Consumers overestimate their deepfake detection skills

67% of consumers are aware of generative AI technologies but they overestimate their ability to detect a deepfake video, according to Jumio. Generative AI awareness among consumers Awareness of generative AI and deepfakes among consumers is high ...

Introducing the LATMA Algorithm for Better Lateral Movement Detection

Lateral movement detection is a challenge every cybersecurity researcher is likely familiar with. My team and I faced this challenge a few months ago and, not surprisingly, quickly discovered there is no easy or fast solution to address it. In ...

Stop Expired Certificates and Start Preventing Certificate Outages

More than half of organizations say that outages resulted in severe disruption to customer services. But with a prevention strategy, companies can proactively avoid these disruptions before they become a problem The post Stop Expired Certificates ...

The Updated OWASP API Security Top 10 for 2023 is Here

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to improving the security of software. The OWASP foundation first released a list of the top 10 security risks faced by APIs in 2019. After a couple ...

Overview of Ransomware Solutions from Protection to Detection and Response

Ransomware remains a top threat in 2023 and the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2022 states that over 25% of breaches were caused by ransomware. The post Overview of Ransomware Solutions from Protection to Detection and ...

PCWorld: Tons of Gigabyte motherboards come with a hidden firmware backdoor

The backdoor installs software updates from unsecured web servers. Read More > The post PCWorld: Tons of Gigabyte motherboards come with a hidden firmware backdoor appeared first on Eclypsium | Supply Chain Security for the Modern ...

CSO: Gigabyte firmware component can be abused as a backdoor

Attackers can abuse the UEFI firmware to inject executable malware code into the Windows kernel, compromising systems. Read More > The post CSO: Gigabyte firmware component can be abused as a backdoor appeared first on Eclypsium | Supply ...