Application Security News and Articles


Proofpoint DLP Transform secures data moving to ChatGPT, copilots, and other GenAI tools

Proofpoint announced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Transform, including GenAI use cases. Today, businesses struggle with the limitations of legacy DLP solutions that are fragmented across channels and are not designed to address today’s most ...

Appdome launches MobileEDR, merging MTD and EDR to protect enterprise mobile apps

Appdome has released Appdome MobileEDR, a new enterprise mobile app protection service that consolidates Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) capabilities into a single agentless product offering. MobileEDR ...

Confluent enhances Apache Flink with new features for easier AI and broader stream processing

Confluent has unveiled AI Model Inference, an upcoming feature on Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, to enable teams to easily incorporate machine learning into data pipelines. Confluent introduced Confluent Platform for Apache Flink, a Flink ...

The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture at CISO Global “Hey Alexa, are you stealing my company’s data?” In an age where manufacturers have decided that just about every device needs to be “smart,” it’s becoming difficult to avoid ...

Nord Security unveils NordStellar, a platform for advanced cyber threat detection and response

Nord Security introduces NordStellar, a next-generation threat exposure management platform. Created by developers of VPN solution NordVPN, the enterprise cyber threat exposure management platform helps businesses detect and respond to cyber ...

CalypsoAI introduces customizable generative AI security scanners for enterprises

CalypsoAI introduced two AI security solutions to the CalypsoAI SaaS platform: next gen security scanners and enhanced security functionalities for chat platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. These new capabilities are designed to empower ...

Illumio and Wiz’s integration enhances cyber resilience in the cloud

Illumio has partnered with Wiz and joins Wiz Integrations (WIN) Platform. Illumio enhances WIN by bringing the power of Illumio’s Zero Trust Segmentation platform to the partner ecosystem, so that customers can seamlessly integrate Wiz into ...

Veracode platform enhancements help organizations reduce application risk

Veracode announced platform innovations that set a new standard for developer-powered application security. New repo risk visibility and analysis from Longbow Security, powered by Veracode, speeds up remediation of application risk from code ...

New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in Ubuntu

The Ubuntu security team has addressed several security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel for both Ubuntu 23.10 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS releases. These vulnerabilities, if left unpatched, could potentially cause a denial of service (system ...

Dropbox says attackers accessed customer and MFA info, API keys

File hosting service Dropbox has confirmed that attackers have breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer personal and authentication information. “From a technical perspective, Dropbox Sign’s infrastructure is ...

Skyhawk Security unveils cloud-native CTEM, streamlining security with AI-powered automation

Skyhawk Security has unveiled its cloud native Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) solution. The agentless approach empowers organizations to automate their CTEM program for the first time and operationalize it through Skyhawk’s ...

Deep Instinct DIANNA provides malware analysis for unknown threats

Deep Instinct announced the launch of Deep Instinct’s Artificial Neural Network Assistant (DIANNA), an AI-based cybersecurity companion that provides explainability into unknown threats. DIANNA enhances Deep Instinct’s prevention-first ...

Venafi launches 90-Day TLS Readiness Solution

Venafi launched its new 90-Day TLS Readiness Solution to help organizations comply with Google’s proposed 90-day TLS certificate standard, improving security posture while reducing the risk of certificate-related interruptions. According to ...

Snyk AppRisk Pro leverages AI and third-party integrations for faster risk mitigation

Snyk has released Snyk AppRisk Pro, pairing artificial intelligence (AI) with application context from third-party integrations to help application security (AppSec) and development teams address business-critical risk and accelerate fixes. Snyk ...

Lineaje OSM improves software supply chain security

Lineaje unveiled Open-Source Manager (OSM), which brings transparency to open-source software components in applications and proactively manages and mitigates associated risks. Lineaje’s OSM enables full lifecycle governance of open-source ...

Hardening Embedded Linux IoT Devices: A Comprehensive Guide

  Embedded systems often operate on specialized hardware with limited processing power, memory, and storage. Many embedded Linux IoT devices collect and transmit sensitive data. Hardening them reduces the risk of breaches that could expose this ...

Bitwarden Authenticator protects online services and applications

Bitwarden launched a standalone app for two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect online services and applications from unauthorized access. Bitwarden Authenticator generates and stores time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), enabling all users to ...

Virsec releases security tools to offer ransomware protection

Virsec released TrustSight and TrustGuardian, its newest security tools in the fight against an ever-expanding threat environment – one where EDRs miss up to 30% of attacks, and ransomware detonates in milliseconds, according to various ...

LabHost Crackdown: 37 Arrested In Global Cybercrime Bust

In a significant stride against cybercrime, law enforcement agencies worldwide have orchestrated a comprehensive crackdown on LabHost, a notorious cybercrime service facilitating multi-national phishing operations. This operation, named PhishOFF ...

2024 Data Breach Investigations Report: Most breaches involve a non-malicious human element

The exploitation of vulnerabilities as an initial point of entry almost tripled from the previous year, accounting for 14% of all breaches, according to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed a record-high 30,458 ...