Application Security News and Articles


RidgeShield monitors traffic across workloads and enforces unified security policies

At RSA Conference 2023, Ridge Security announced Ridge Security RidgeShield, an automated, cloud workload protection and testing solution. As organizations increasingly move their workloads to the cloud, they face new and complex security ...

Cyber Risk Quantification Too “Rosy”? We Respond to Harvard Business Review

In a Harvard Business Review article “Cyber Risk Is Growing. Here’s How Companies Can Keep Up,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff makes some on-target points about the need to improve cyber risk management – but also ...

CVE-2023-27524: Insecure Default Configuration in Apache Superset Leads to Remote Code Execution

Apache Superset is an open source data visualization and exploration tool. It has over 50K stars on GitHub, and there are more than 3000 instances of it exposed to the Internet. In our research, we found that a substantial portion of these ...

AWS boosts Amazon GuardDuty with 3 new capabilities to protect varied workloads

AWS has unveiled three new capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty, AWS’s threat detection service, that further strengthen customer security through expanded coverage and continuous enhancements in machine learning, anomaly detection, and integrated ...

GrammaTech and ArmorCode unify application security tools and intelligence

GrammaTech and ArmorCode announced a technology integration partnership to help customers automate product security across development, testing, feedback and deployment. The GrammaTech CodeSonar SAST (static application security testing) platform ...

Google adds new risk assessment tool for Chrome extensions

Google has made available a new tool for Google Workspace admins and security teams to make an assessment of the risk different Chrome extensions may present to their users: Spin.AI App Risk Assessment. The tool is available through the Chrome ...

Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Shepherding ChatGPT

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati discusses AI safeguards and the company’s vision for the futuristic concept of artificial general intelligence, known as AGI. The post Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Shepherding ChatGPT appeared first on ...

Google Audit Finds Vulnerabilities in Intel TDX

Over a nine-month audit, Google researchers identified ten security defects in Intel TDX, including nine vulnerabilities addressed with TDX code changes. The post Google Audit Finds Vulnerabilities in Intel TDX appeared first on SecurityWeek.

MITRE Caldera for OT tool enables security teams to run automated adversary emulation exercises

MITRE is launching its MITRE Caldera for OT tool, which allows security teams to run automated adversary emulation exercises that are specifically targeted against operational technology (OT). At RSA Conference 2023, MITRE is also showcasing its ...

3CX Incident Attributed to North Korea; New LockBit MacOS Sample

Mandiant Attributes 3CX Supply Chain Attack to North Korean Activity Cluster On April 11, 2023, 3CX reported that Mandiant - who investigated the supply chain attack using a digitally signed 3CXDesktopApp installer - attributes the attack to an ...

Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down

Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down. This was QuadDream: Key Findings Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, we developed indicators that enabled us ...

Attackers are logging in instead of breaking in

Cyberattackers leveraged more than 500 unique tools and tactics in 2022, according to Sophos. The data, analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response (IR) cases, identified more than 500 unique tools and techniques, including 118 “Living ...

PoC exploit for abused PaperCut flaw is now public (CVE-2023-27350)

An unauthenticated RCE flaw (CVE-2023-27350) in widely-used PaperCut MF and NG print management software is being exploited by attackers to take over vulnerable application servers, and now there’s a public PoC exploit. About the ...

IBM’s Security QRadar Suite streamlines security analysis throughout the incident process

IBM unveiled at the RSA conference 2023, its new Security QRadar Suite designed to unify and accelerate the security analyst experience across the full incident lifecycle. The IBM Security QRadar Suite represents a major evolution and expansion ...

How to Avoid Outages as Google Reduces TLS Certificate Lifespans to 90 Days

"How often do digital certificates expire?"  It's a commonly asked question, and there's a new answer. On March 3, 2023, Google's Chromium Projects announced that the organization plans to reduce the maximum validity period for public ...

Arista Networks unveils AI-driven network identity service

Arista Networks announced at the RSA Conference 2023 a cloud-delivered, AI-driven network identity service for enterprise security and IT operations. Based on Arista’s flagship CloudVision platform, Arista Guardian for Network Identity (CV ...

Employee spotlight – Meet Nico!

Being a developer is challenging work but lots of fun because it lets me participate in each part of a functionality life cycle: design, coding, testing, and documenting. For developers, that is one of the most exciting things to do: to create ...

How to fortify your cryptocurrency security

In today's uncertain economic climate, people are searching for alternative ways to invest and store their money. With high inflation rates during the last month and yet another crisis in the financial system, one option that has gained ...

R3NIN Sniffer Toolkit – A Complete Guide to New Sniffer

Introduction Digitization is advancing along with technology, and online credit card purchases are commonplace. A set of network analysis and sniffing tools is included in the R3NIN Sniffer toolkit. It is made to assist network managers and ...

AI tools help attackers develop sophisticated phishing campaigns

Phishing scams are a growing threat, and cybercriminals’ methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them harder to detect and block, according to Zscaler report. The report found that a majority of modern phishing attacks rely on ...