Application Security News and Articles


Cyber threats to EU transport sector sends urgent call for enhanced cybersecurity

Between January 2021 and October 2022, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) analyzed and mapped the cyber threats faced by the transport sector, identifying prime threats, analyzing incidents, assessing threat actors, analyzing their ...

Insider Risk: The Good, the Bad, the Indifferent

One of the key areas within the insider risk matrix is the role of the benevolent or malevolent employee. With the former, their actions are of good intent, though their execution and decision-making may be flawed and fraught with unintended ...

Top 5 security risks for enterprise storage, backup devices

An average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, three of which are high or critical risk that could present a significant compromise if exploited, according to Continuity. The findings underscore a significant gap in the ...

Vumetric PTaaS platform simplifies cybersecurity assessments for organizations

Vumetric Cybersecurity has launched its Penetration Testing as-a-Service (PTaaS) platform, designed to simplify and modernize cybersecurity assessments for organizations of all sizes. The Vumetric PTaaS platform revolutionizes the penetration ...

Secureworks Security Posture Dashboard enables businesses to understand their cyber readiness

Secureworks bolsters cyber resiliency with launch Of Security Posture Dashboard. Using the 600 billion security events Taegis analyzes daily, the Dashboard empowers customers to understand their cybersecurity posture and how resilient they would ...

Lightspin Remediation Hub helps users fix the cloud security threats

Lightspin launched the Remediation Hub as part of its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) solution. An evolution of Lightspin’s root cause analysis feature, the Remediation Hub provides users the ability to dynamically ...

Regula updates IDV products to improve document and biometric verification

Many companies struggle to implement and integrate a bunch of different solutions covering different parts of the IDV process. In fact, according to Regula’s survey, 40% of organizations cite this overly complex technical environment as the ...

Nebulon enhances security capabilities with two zero-trust offerings

Nebulon has unveiled two new zero-trust offerings: Two-Person Commit and Single Sign-on (SSO) that advance Nebulon’s security offering, which includes advanced authentication and authorization, always-on encryption, and 4-minute ransomware ...

Verosint partners with Ping Identity to detect and block account fraud

Verosint and Ping Identity partnership enables mutual customers to analyze digital identities across devices at login to determine account fraud risk. Recognized customers are granted a frictionless transaction path, whereas suspicious users are ...

Jason Garoutte joins Veza as CMO

Veza announced the appointment of Jason Garoutte as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Garoutte is responsible for building and leading a world-class marketing organization that drives Veza’s continued growth and scale. Garoutte has two decades ...

Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce ...

How to select the right fraud prevention platform for your business

Discover key considerations to keep in mind when looking at fraud prevention platforms. The post How to select the right fraud prevention platform for your business appeared first on Sift Blog. The post How to select the right fraud prevention ...

SafeBreach Coverage for Microsoft Outlook for Windows Vulnerability – CVE-2023-23397

SafeBreach coverage for US-CERT Alert (AA22-335A) - Cuba Ransomware The post SafeBreach Coverage for Microsoft Outlook for Windows Vulnerability – CVE-2023-23397 appeared first on SafeBreach. The post SafeBreach Coverage for Microsoft Outlook ...

USENIX Security ’22 – Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle, Benjamin Andow, Kapil Singh, Adwait Nadkarni – ‘Smart Home Privacy Policies Demystified: A Study Of Availability, Content, And Coverage’

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 – Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle, ...

Emotet and Other Malware Shifting Tactics to OneNote Files

Emotet, a notorious and dangerous malware strain, has re-emerged after a period of dormancy. Its new iteration exhibits enhanced capabilities, notably evading macro security features and employing a method of delivery made popular by the malware ...

Xfinity Data Breach: How It Happened (and Are You Affected?)

Cable customers weren’t thrilled when they realized that Comcast would implement yet another price hike.... The post Xfinity Data Breach: How It Happened (and Are You Affected?) appeared first on Axiad. The post Xfinity Data Breach: How It ...

How We Protect Our Infrastructure By Following Azure Identity Security Best Practices

Azure Identity Security Best Practices As a PKI and Identity provider we are held to a higher standard when it comes to Identity Security. In this blog we will walk you through how we follow Azure security best practices to secure our cloud only ...

FIRESIDE CHAT: U.S. banking regulators call out APIs as embodying an attack surface full of risk

APIs have been a linchpin as far as accelerating digital transformation — but they’ve also exponentially expanded the attack surface of modern business networks. Related: Why ‘attack surface management’ has become crucial The resultant ...

2023 Pen Testing Report

The post 2023 Pen Testing Report appeared first on Digital Defense. The post 2023 Pen Testing Report appeared first on Security Boulevard.

What is MFA and Why You Should Enable It

The biggest takeaway is: MFA can prevent account takeovers where credentials are compromised. That's it. Different forms of MFA exist, but in most cases enabling MFA is better than not enabling MFA - especially on important/crucial accounts. From ...