Application Security News and Articles


IONIX Exposure Validation identifies and prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities

IONIX announced a significant extension to its Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform, Automated Exposure Validation. Customers of IONIX can now benefit from Exposure Validation capabilities for continuous exploitability testing on production ...

Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’

Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS? The post Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

How Entrepreneurs Can Protect Their Businesses from Cyber Attacks

Reading Time: 4 min Cybercrime is a serious threat! Learn how to protect your business from data breaches, ransomware, and reputation damage with these effective cybersecurity tips for entrepreneurs. The post How Entrepreneurs Can Protect Their ...

Check Point introduces Harmony SaaS for automated threat prevention

Check Point has introduced Harmony SaaS, which offers protection by seamlessly integrating into customers’ existing infrastructure and providing real-time threat prevention. “With the exponential rise in SaaS adoption, organizations face ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Lost at C: A User Study On The Security Implications Of Large Language Model Code Assistants

Authors/Presenters: Gustavo Sandoval, Hammond Pearce, Teo Nys, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong ...

Proactive Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift In Cyber Defense

Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.” But in today’s threat ...

Cloudflare Magic Cloud Networking simplifies security and management of public clouds

Cloudflare introduced Magic Cloud Networking, a simple, secure and scalable way for businesses to connect and secure their public cloud environments. To accelerate its entrance into the new market, Cloudflare acquired the technology of Nefeli ...

The Hidden Threat: Understanding the Identity Attack Surface

When we discuss the challenge of managing the enterprise attack surface, it is important to understand that it is not a homogenous entity. Rather, it comprises a multitude of disparate elements, each presenting its unique risk profile and ...

Browserless Entra Device Code Flow

Zugspitze, Bavaria, Germany. Photo by Andrew Chiles Did you know that it is possible to perform every step in Entra’s OAuth 2.0 Device Code flow — including the user authentication steps — without a browser? Why ...

Lookout introduces SSE solution for mid-market enterprises

Lookout announced an edition of the Lookout Cloud Security Platform, the Company’s Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, that specifically addresses the unique challenges and demands faced by mid-sized enterprises. This includes an automated ...

Metomic provides data security tool for organizations that rely on Slack

Metomic announced Metomic for Slack Enterprise. By partnering with Slack, Metomic gives security teams full visibility and control of sensitive data sent across an organization’s entire Slack workspace. Metomic for Slack enables heightened ...

Deepwatch increases flexibility with its open security data architecture

Deepwatch introduced its open security data architecture, which provides customers with their choice of cloud and local data sources, including support for a broad range of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions as well as ...

Pentera Cloud empowers security teams to reduce exposure to cloud-native attacks

Pentera launched Pentera Cloud as part of its automated security validation platform to complement its renowned Pentera Core and Surface products. Pentera Cloud is the software product enabling on-demand security testing and resilience assessment ...

Car Insurance Emails Drives for NetSupport RAT Infection 

By Nathaniel Raymond A relatively small malicious car insurance/financial-themed email campaign has been landing in inboxes since late January of this year. These basic malicious emails promise the user a large financial sum via an invitation to ...

Sweet Security raises $33 million to identify and address cloud risks

Six months after coming out of stealth, Sweet Security is announcing a $33 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, joined by Munich Re Ventures and Glilot Capital Partners. Capitalizing on its strong market ...

ITRC Finds Online Job Scams on the Rise

The ITRC reported a surge in online job scams targeting unsuspecting job seekers for their personal information. The post ITRC Finds Online Job Scams on the Rise appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Deepfakes: What Organizations, Schools & Parents Should Know

Deepfakes are AI-generated synthetic media with potential for misuse. Explore threats to cybersecurity, businesses, individuals & solutions. The post Deepfakes: What Organizations, Schools & Parents Should Know appeared first on SternX ...

Surveillance through Push Notifications

The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant. The investigative ...

Appian Platform enhancements unify generative AI and process automation

Appian released the latest version of the Appian Platform. The release introduces the new generative AI prompt builder AI skill, which lets users easily leverage generative AI in a secure and private AI architecture that accelerates their ...

Customer Story | Lufkin ISD Streamlines Cybersecurity & Safety Monitoring With Rich Visibility

Lufkin ISD’s cybersecurity team makes learning in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 safer and more secure Background Lufkin Independent School District is on a mission to “educate and equip all students for success through exceptional ...