Application Security News and Articles


Thales prepares to protect European infrastructures from quantum attacks

Thales has joined forces with around twenty deep tech, academic and industry partners, as part of the EuroQCI initiative (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure), which aims to deploy a quantum communication infrastructure for EU member ...

Deloitte and Riskified help eCommerce merchants analyze their fraud exposure

Riskified has unveiled its partnership with Deloitte to empower merchants with real-time insight into how their chargebacks, approval rates and fraud costs compare to similar companies in their space. This benchmarking service is helping ...

Votiro collaborates with Sumo Logic to provide analytics on file-borne threats

Votiro has integrated with Sumo Logic to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications. Users can now send high-fidelity data and insights discovered by Votiro Cloud into the Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM console. Enterprises are relying on ...

Google Warns of New Chrome Zero-Day Attack

The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, is described as a type confusion in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. The post Google Warns of New Chrome Zero-Day Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a ...

Top eCommerce Security Best Practices to Follow

As eCommerce continues to grow, so do the risks of cyberattacks. With more and more people shopping on the internet, eCommerce sites, along with their customers, have become targets for cybercriminals. From phishing attacks to account takeovers, ...

Connect with Wallarm at RSA 2023

We’re looking forward to seeing you at this year’s RSA Conference! Don’t forget to set up a meeting with our executives, as they would love to hear more about your team’s application security needs and chat with you about how Wallarm can ...

USENIX Security ’22 – Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun, Ye Zhang, Joseph Bonneau, Michael Walfish – ‘Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes’

Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Security ’22 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Paul Grubbs, Arasu Arun, Ye Zhang, Joseph ...

Flare’s Coming Soon to a Town Near You: See You at RSA and BSidesSF!

Flare is heading to San Francisco later this month for RSA and BSidesSF. These are the first events where we’ll live demo our AI Powered Assistant! We can’t wait to show you how we’re leveraging large language models to enable streamlining ...

Permiso Discovers Smishing Attack to Steal AWS Credentials

Permiso, a provider of a platform for correlating IT events to identities, today disclosed the discovery of an attack through which cybercriminals are employing text messages to steal credentials that enable them to access Amazon Web Services ...

Why ChatGPT is a security concern for your organization (even if you don’t use it)

ChatGPT may not be used by all organizations and may even be banned. But that doesn't mean you don't have exposure to the security risks it contains. This post looks at why ChatGPT should be part of your threat landscape. The post Why ChatGPT is ...

Western Digital Redux: My Cloud Alive Again, Ransom is $10M+

Your Cloud — But For How Long? WD’s My Cloud service is finally back online, but ransomware scrotes demand “eight figures.” The post Western Digital Redux: My Cloud Alive Again, Ransom is $10M+ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Diffraction Spikes’

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

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/14

Insight #1 " AI, AI, AI, it’s going to help everyone including malicious actors. We will see an AI-based attack in 2023."   Insight #2 " June 14th is getting ever so close (timeline for compliance with OMB 22-18), are ...

The Significance of Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs) in Secure Due Diligence Processes

This article explores the importance of due diligence in business deals and the role of VDRs in facilitating effective and secure due diligence procedures. The post The Significance of Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs) in Secure Due Diligence Processes ...

USENIX Security ’22 – Aardvark: An Asynchronous Authenticated Dictionary With Applications To Account-based Cryptocurrencies

Complete Title: USENIX Security ’22 - Derek Leung, Yossi Gilad, Sergey Gorbunov, Leonid Reyzin, Nickolai Zeldovich - ‘Aardvark: An Asynchronous Authenticated Dictionary With Applications To Account-based Cryptocurrencies’ Our thanks to ...

Navigating the Changing CMMC Landscape with MS(S)P Support

Companies contracted to work with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) bear an incredible amount of responsibility to protect sensitive unclassified information. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) was created to hold ...

Understanding Desired Outcomes: How We Selected the Cloud Defense Free Feature Set

When we decided to launch a free version of FireMon Cloud Defense we knew we would have to balance two key challenges:   We already knew our platform could scale, but could we adapt it to economically scale to support large enterprises for the ...

Life at ForAllSecure: James Kessler, Staff Software Engineer

“Life at ForAllSecure” is a Q&A series dedicated to our growing company. For this month’s profile, we talked with James Kessler, Staff Software Engineer. The post Life at ForAllSecure: James Kessler, Staff Software Engineer appeared ...

FBI Arrests 21-Year-Old Guardsman in Leak of Classified Military Documents

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member was arrested Thursday in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues. The post FBI Arrests 21-Year-Old Guardsman in ...