Application Security News and Articles


Bots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You

Bots Are Evolving: Here’s How to Stop AI-Powered Automation Before It Stops You madhav Thu, 10/09/2025 - 04:34 More than half of all internet traffic is now automated. Bots don’t just scrape data or hoard inventory anymore. They mimic ...

Turning the human factor into your strongest cybersecurity defense

In this Help Net Security video, Jacob Martens, Field CISO at Upwind Security, explores one of cybersecurity’s most enduring challenges: the human factor behind breaches. Despite advances in technology, most attacks still begin with people, not ...

Outdated encryption leaves crypto wide open

The cryptocurrency sector faces an existential threat on two fronts: none of the 2,138 web applications and 146 mobile apps tested by ImmuniWeb support post-quantum encryption, and more than 7.8 million user records are already circulating on the ...

Six metrics policymakers need to track cyber resilience

Most countries are still making national cyber policy decisions without reliable numbers. Regulations often focus on incident reporting after damage is done, but they fail to give governments a forward-looking picture of resilience. A new report ...

Zero Trust for AI Agents: Implementing Dynamic Authorization in an Autonomous World

Traditional role-based access control assumes predictable behavior, but AI agents exhibit emergent behaviors no human anticipated. Dynamic authorization using ABAC and JWT tokens enables real-time policy decisions that adapt to AI behavior, ...

Doing More With Less: What K-12 Tech Leaders Are Prioritizing for 2025–2026

Budget cuts, more devices than ever, and cyber threats that just won’t quit. That was the theme of our recent webinar, K-12 Cybersecurity on a Budget: Doing More With Less in the Age of Cuts, featuring three IT leaders who live this every day: ...

Exciting Developments in Cloud-Native Security

Are Machine Identities the Hidden Key to Cloud-Native Security? Effective cybersecurity strategies rely not only on safeguarding human credentials but also on ensuring the security of non-human identities (NHIs). These machine identities, often ...

The First Malicious MCP Server is a Warning Shot for AI Cybersecurity

  The first malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server has been discovered and we should all be worried how this is foreshadowing AI cybersecurity risks! Cybersecurity researchers at Koi Security detected malicious code within an MCP server ...

Unlocking the Future: What Android Screen Unlocking Reveals About Next-Gen IAM

Forgot your Android password, PIN, or pattern? Discover how Dr.Fone – Screen Unlock helps you regain access but also where Identity and Access Management (IAM) is headed. The post Unlocking the Future: What Android Screen Unlocking Reveals ...

News alert: Miggo Security lauded for preventing AI-borne attacks with behavior-aware security

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 8, 2025, CyberNewswire — Miggo Security, pioneer and innovator in Application Detection & Response (ADR) and AI Runtime Defense, today announced it has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Security. To … ...

USENIX 2025: PEPR ’25 – When Privacy Guarantees Meet Pre-Trained LLMs: A Case Study In Synthetic Data

Creators, Authors and Presenters: Yash Maurya and Aman Priyanshu, Carnegie Mellon University Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Enigma ’23 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. ...

Top 5 Hard-Earned Lessons from the Experts on Managing Kubernetes

Kubernetes has transformed how modern organizations deploy and operate scalable infrastructure, and the hype around automated cloud-native orchestration has made its adoption nearly ubiquitous over the past 10+ years. Yet behind the scenes, most ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘’Phase Changes”

via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘’Phase Changes” appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Exposure Management Beyond The Endpoint

Relying on an endpoint-centric approach to exposure management can leave you with blind spots that increase risk. You need to see your environment like an attacker does. Key takeaways: Long remediation cycles and difficulty prioritizing risk ...

AI Takes Center Stage at DataTribe’s Cyber Innovation Day

From defending AI agents to teaching robots to move safely, finalists at this year’s DataTribe Challenge are charting the next frontier in cybersecurity innovation. The post AI Takes Center Stage at DataTribe’s Cyber Innovation Day appeared ...

Will AI-SPM Become the Standard Security Layer for Safe AI Adoption?

How security posture management for AI can protect against model poisoning, excessive agency, jailbreaking and other LLM risks. The post Will AI-SPM Become the Standard Security Layer for Safe AI Adoption? appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Modernizing Federal DevSecOps for CMMC and Beyond

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 marks a clear shift from box-checking to modernization. Compliance is, of course, important. However, this evolution highlights the need to revise our approach to how software is ...

Fixing VoIP and Teams Failures: The Power of Stealth Networking

Your VoIP calls shouldn’t drop, and your Teams meetings shouldn’t freeze. Yet for most enterprises, these failures happen daily. The issue isn’t the app. It’s the network. In today’s digital-first world, enterprises are investing ...

Virtual Event Today: Zero Trust & Identity Strategies Summit

Join the virtual event we dive into the world of digital identity management and the role of zero-trust principles and associated technologies. The post Virtual Event Today: Zero Trust & Identity Strategies Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Varonis Interceptor stops AI-evasive email attacks

Varonis Systems announced the availability of Varonis Interceptor, a new approach to email security that uses multi-layered AI to detect and block social engineering attacks, even when they originate from trusted or compromised sources. Attackers ...