Application Security News and Articles


Eight AI Tools to Help Programmers and Developers Write Code

As technology evolves, we see exciting advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) that significantly impact how programmers, developers, and security teams work. With the help of AI tools, developers and programmers can now generate and triage ...

Learn with Obsidian Lightboards: SaaS Compliance, SaaS Incident Response, and more!

It’s Obsidian’s inaugural SSPM Week, and over these last few days we’ve announced a number of exciting releases and additions to our platform. Managing SaaS integration risk, measuring and maintaining SaaS compliance, extending security ...

DoJ: Estonian Man Tried to Acquire US-Made Hacking Tools for Russia

Andrey Shevlyakov was charged in the US for helping the Russian government and military purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. The post DoJ: Estonian Man Tried to Acquire US-Made Hacking Tools for Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Innovating at the Intersection of Ops and Product

This month we had the pleasure of chatting with Dhia, ProductOps manager and data analyst. The post Innovating at the Intersection of Ops and Product appeared first on Security Boulevard.

USENIX Security ’22 – Anvith Thudi, Hengrui Jia, Ilia Shumailov, Nicolas Papernot – ‘On the Necessity Of Auditable Algorithmic Definitions For Machine Unlearning’

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 – Anvith Thudi, Hengrui Jia, Ilia ...

Don’t Get Burned (Out) by Cloud Vulnerabilities

As a cybersecurity professional, vulnerabilities and exploits can be exhausting, never-ending and the bane of your existence. It is hard to prioritize what matters to you and your organization when you are staring at thousands of vulnerabilities, ...

Lacework Employs Machine Learning to Consolidate Alerts

Lacework has added an ability to automatically correlate disparate alerts and severity events to enable cybersecurity teams to detect the patterns used to launch a cybersecurity attack. Kate MacLean, senior director of product marketing for ...

Keeping up With Rapidly Evolving Cloud Security Tech

Innovative technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and advanced encryption have significant implications for cybersecurity. At the same time, introducing new technologies can produce a skills gap. ...

Secret US Documents on Ukraine War Plan Spill Onto Internet: Report

Secret documents that reportedly provide details of US and NATO plans to help prepare Ukraine for a spring offensive against Russia have spilled onto social media platforms. The post Secret US Documents on Ukraine War Plan Spill Onto Internet: ...

How to implement DevSecOps within an organisation.

Implementing DevSecOps within an organization is a holistic approach that integrates security into every step of the software development…Continue reading on Medium »

Automated security testing.

Automated security testing tools are software programs that are designed to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in software…Continue reading on Medium »

Changes Included in the Stable release 23.02 of Azul Zulu Prime Builds of OpenJDK

Azul Platform Prime is a modern, TCK-compliant Java platform based on OpenJDK, providing low, consistent response latency of your Java workloads, higher total throughput and carrying capacity, faster warm-up, and infrastructure savings, achieved ...

Rilide browser extension steals MFA codes

Cryptocurrency thieves are targeting users of Chromium-based browsers – Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave Browser, and Opera – with an extension that steals credentials and can grab multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The ...

Tesla Retail Tool Vulnerability Led to Account Takeover

A vulnerability in Tesla’s Retail Tool application allowed a researcher to take over accounts of former employees. The post Tesla Retail Tool Vulnerability Led to Account Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Sophos Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerability in Web Security Appliance

Sophos patches critical unauthenticated code execution vulnerability in Sophos Web Appliance. The post Sophos Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerability in Web Security Appliance appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Technical, Legal Action Taken to Prevent Abuse of Cobalt Strike, Microsoft Software

Microsoft, Fortra and Health-ISAC have taken legal and technical action to prevent the abuse of the Cobalt Strike exploitation tool and Microsoft software. The post Technical, Legal Action Taken to Prevent Abuse of Cobalt Strike, Microsoft ...

Phishing emails from legit YouTube address hitting inboxes

Phishers are targeting YouTube content creators by leveraging the service’s Share Video by Email feature, which delivers the phishing email from an official YouTube email address (no-reply@youtube.com). How the YouTube phishing email scam ...

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/7

Insight #1 " A malicious browser extension, AF, was detected this past week. AF steals your Gmail contents from an initial spear phishing attack. Delete this extension immediately if you are using it."   Insight #2 " ...

OpenAI to Offer Remedies to Resolve Italy’s ChatGPT Ban

The company behind ChatGPT will propose measures to resolve data privacy concerns that sparked a temporary Italian ban on the artificial intelligence chatbot The post OpenAI to Offer Remedies to Resolve Italy’s ChatGPT Ban appeared first on ...

April 2023 Patch Tuesday forecast: The vulnerability discovery race

The answer to the question “Why does software continue to have so many vulnerabilities?” is complex, because the software itself is so complex. There’ve been many articles written that cover the lack of tools to test for vulnerabilities, ...