Application Security News and Articles
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One pattern I spotted after looking at the evolution of IT and security organizations over the years, including my time at Gartner is: change is hard, but transformation is harder.
Perhaps it is ...
The takedown this week of a massive phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation spanned law enforcement agencies from both sides of the Atlantic and is the latest example of an increasingly aggressive approach by authorities to disrupt the operations ...
Security operations centers (SOCs) are the front lines in the battle against cyber threats. They use a diverse array of security controls to monitor, detect, and swiftly respond to any cyber menace.These controls are essential for keeping ...
Authors/Presenters: *Sina Sajadmanesh, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Aurélien Bellet, Daniel Gatica-Perez*
Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to ...
FBI, CISA, EC3, and NCSC-NL issued an urgent advisory highlighting the use of new TTPs and IOCs by the Akira ransomware group.
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The newest version of the European Union Network and Information Systems directive, or NIS2, came into force in January 2023. Member States have until October 2024 to transpose it into their national law. One of the most critical changes with ...
via the inimitable Daniel Stori at Turnoff.US!
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Authors/Presenters: *Cheng-Long Wang, Mengdi Huai, Di Wang*
Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.
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Security testing allows you to evaluate the robustness of applications and systems and identify potential weaknesses that attackers may exploit. DAST and fuzzing are two popular, important, and proven security testing methods. DAST (dynamic ...
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One of the most significant errors an organization can make is assuming they are not a target. This belief is especially prevalent among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and it represents a dangerous oversight. An estimated ...
More organizations hit by ransomware gangs are starting to realize that it doesn’t pay to pay up: “In Q1 2024, the proportion of victims that chose to pay touched a new record low of 28%,” ransomware incident response firm ...
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...
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
