Application Security News and Articles


Scaling Application Security With Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)

Did you know that the total number of data breaches more than tripled between 2013 and 2022?  These breaches exposed 2.6 billion personal records in the past two years alone... The post Scaling Application Security With Application Security ...

LastPass users targeted by vishing attackers

The CryptoChameleon phishing kit is being leveraged by vishing attackers looking to trick LastPass users into sharing their master password. “Initially, we learned of a new parked domain (help-lastpass[.]com) and immediately marked the ...

Crunching Some Numbers on PHP Support

PHP Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) allows you to continue using older versions of PHP while still receiving security updates for the language, without introducing breaking changes to your application. The first and obvious question might be, ...

Google Chrome DBSC Protection Tested Against Cookie Attacks

In light of cookie stealing attacks and to ensure Chrome browser protection, Google has recently piloted its new Chrome DBSC. The device-bound session credentials (DBSC) are aimed at protecting users against cookie theft that threat actors may ...

What is SOC 2 Compliance Audit?

Our digital world is based on connectivity, but with that comes great responsibility. Businesses manage vast amounts of client information. Ensuring the protection of this information is not an easy task, especially given the company’s present ...

Protobom: Open-source software supply chain tool

Protobom is an open-source software supply chain tool that enables all organizations, including system administrators and software development communities, to read and generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), file data, and translate this ...

The Dark Side of EDR: Repurpose EDR as an Offensive Tool

See how a SafeBreach Labs researcher bypassed the anti-tampering mechanism of a leading EDR to execute malicious code within one of the EDR's own processes and altered the mechanism to gain unique, persistent, and fully undetectable ...

The key pillars of domain security

From branded emails and marketing campaigns to critical protocols, internal portals, and internet traffic, domains are central to digital enterprise operations. They are constantly created for new assets and initiatives. In this Help Net Security ...

51% of enterprises experienced a breach despite large security stacks

Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface and the stakes are only getting higher: 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, ...

New infosec products of the week: April 19, 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from IDnow, Immuta, Privacera, Redgate, ShadowDragon, and Tanium. ShadowDragon Horizon enhancements help users conduct investigations from any device Horizon ...

NTA Email Alert Configuration

There are two separate email configurations on NTA which do not affect each other. One is the region/IP group email alert, the other is the global email alert. 1.  Region/IP Group Email Alert Configuration -> Objects -> Regions -> ...

The Ultimate Guide to SBIR and STTR Program Budgeting

The world advances based on innovation, and innovation can come from anywhere. The trouble is that the current capitalist economic system encourages large corporations to play conservatively with their products and their budgets while working to ...

Finding Losses in Gains: Loss of Funds in Forks of Gains Network

Zellic Security Advisory The post Finding Losses in Gains: Loss of Funds in Forks of Gains Network appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Vulnerabilities for AI and ML Applications are Skyrocketing

In their haste to deploy LLM tools, organizations may overlook crucial security practices. The rise in threats like Remote Code Execution indicates an urgent need to improve security measures in AI development. The post Vulnerabilities for AI and ...

Cheap ‘Junk-Gun Ransomware’ Emerging on the Dark Web

Headlines about ransomware in recent years has focused on the most prolific gangs like LockBit, BlackCat, and Cl0p and the rise of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), where affiliates pay fee to use ransomware developed by another group and share the ...

Companies Didn’t Prioritize Third-Party Sources of CVEs, Here’s What Happened

Last December, Veracode reported that more than a third of Java applications still use vulnerable versions of the Log4j Java logging library. This after many engineering teams dropped their regular work and spent their time remediating the ...

What Makes Containers Vulnerable?

Read this quick guide to the types of vulnerabilities that affect containers. The post What Makes Containers Vulnerable? appeared first on Mend. The post What Makes Containers Vulnerable? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

USENIX Security ’23 – NRDelegationAttack: Complexity DDoS attack on DNS Recursive Resolvers

Authors/Presenters: *Yehuda Afek and Anat Bremler-Barr, Shani Stajnrod* Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from ...

DevOps pioneers navigate organizational transformation

The latest webinar in Sonatype's DevOps Download series, presented in partnership with The New Stack, offered an in-depth exploration into how DevOps pioneers are catalyzing significant shifts within organizations. The post DevOps pioneers ...

To Breach or Not to Breach

The rapid adoption of could computing was yesterday’s news 5 years ago. Today’s news is that one of the most critical cloud security technologies is woefully ineffective. In addition to efficacy, it is critical to measure operational ...