Application Security News and Articles


Command Zero emerges from stealth with $21 Million in seed funding

Command Zero emerged from stealth with $21 Million in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Insight Partners and over 60 cyber industry thought leaders and executives. Using encoded expert knowledge, automation and ...

Beyond Checklists: The Rise of Automated Vendor Assessment and Enhanced Security

As cyberthreats continue to increase, automation and proactive measures will be essential for mitigating the risks associated with third-party relationships and safeguarding valuable data and infrastructure. The post Beyond Checklists: The Rise ...

Enzoic Global Partner Program helps combat dark web exposures

Enzoic has unveiled its Enzoic Global Partner Program to help organizations strengthen their security posture in response to the evolving cybersecurity landscape. Participants have access to Enzoic’s award-winning threat intelligence solutions ...

Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: Malicious JavaScript Injection Puts Over 100k Websites At Risk

Polyfill.io helps web developers achieve cross-browser compatibility by automatically managing necessary polyfills. By adding a script tag to their HTML, developers can ensure that features like JavaScript functions, HTML5 elements, and various ...

Diversifying cyber teams to tackle complex threats

Technologies such as GenAI, ML and IoT are giving threat actors new tools that make it easier to target consumers and organizations. From Savvy Seahorse which lures victims into investment scams, to a self-replicating AI worm that uses the likes ...

How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments

In this Help Net Security interview, Jake King, Head of Threat & Security Intelligence at Elastic, discusses companies’ exposure to new security risks and vulnerabilities as they rush to deploy LLMs. King explains how LLMs pose ...

BunkerWeb: Open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF)

BunkerWeb is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. The solution’s core code is entirely auditable by a third party and the community. “The genesis of BunkerWeb comes from the ...

Lessons Learned From Exposing Unusual XSS Vulnerabilities

Misunderstood browser APIs are often at the core of many web security issues. With the rapid expansion of web APIs, keeping up with security best practices can be challenging. In this post, we’ll explore a few common mistakes developers make ...

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 10, 2024

CISO HoneyBook | Israel | On-site – View job details As a CISO, you will develop and implement a multi-year security strategy and roadmap to anticipate and address security challenges in alignment with company growth objectives. ...

73% of security pros use unauthorized SaaS applications

73% of security professionals admit to using SaaS applications that had not been provided by their company’s IT team in the past year, according to Next DLP. Unauthorized tool use poses major risks for organizations This is despite the fact ...

Emerging Technology Highlights New Converged Risks and Asymmetric Threats

Protecting high-profile individuals and events as the digital threat landscape evolves This article was originally posted in ASIS Security Management Magazine. The ubiquity of technology companies in daily life today puts them in the security ...

Patch Tuesday Update – July 2024

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Strategies to Safeguard the Finance Industry Against Deepfake Onslaught

With the rise of deepfake technology, the financial sector faces a new and growing threat landscape, as malicious actors exploit artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to perpetrate fraud and social engineering attacks. However, according ...

Microsoft in Cybersecurity Leadership Crisis – Open Letter to the CEO

  There is no indication that the root of Microsoft’s cybersecurity issues is being addressed. In fact, all indications are that the executive team is somewhat worried and bewildered at the diverse and numerous issues arising. After many ...

China-Backed Threat Group Rapidly Exploits New Flaws: Agencies

APT40, a threat group backed by China's government, quickly adapts POC exploits of popular software like Microsoft Exchange and Log4j to attack corporate and government networks in the U.S., Australia, and elsewhere, according to an alert issued ...

Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112)

For July 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates and patches that fix 142 CVEs, including two exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) in Windows Hyper-V and Windows MSHTML Platform (respectively). Zero-days ...

USENIX Security ’23 – USENIX Security ’23 – AnimateDead: Debloating Web Applications Using Concolic Execution

Authors/Presenters:Babak Amin Azad, Rasoul Jahanshahi, Chris Tsoukaladelis, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Minimalist: Semi-automated Debloating of PHP Web Applications through Static Analysis

Authors/Presenters:Rasoul Jahanshahi, Boston University; Babak Amin Azad and Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University; Manuel Egele, Boston University Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s ...

Protecting Travel Rewards: Combating Travel Points Theft in the Hospitality Sector

Travel points theft is a growing issue in the travel & hospitality industry. Learn what it is and how DataDome protects your customers from travel points theft. The post Protecting Travel Rewards: Combating Travel Points Theft in the ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Alien Theories’

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