Application Security News and Articles


News alert: Criminal IP and Maltego team up to broaden threat intelligence data search

Torrance, Calif., Aug. 12, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Criminal IP, an expanding Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine from AI SPERA, has recently completed its technology integration with Maltego, a global all-in-one investigation platform ...

AppViewX Automated Certificate Management for PingAccess

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, ensuring the security of web applications is essential to ensure revenue growth and a positive business reputation. One critical aspect of this security is the management of SSL/TLS certificates. ...

USENIX Security ’23 – DISTDET: A Cost-Effective Distributed Cyber Threat Detection System

Authors/Presenters:Feng Dong, Liu Wang Xu Nie, Fei Shao, Haoyu Wang, Ding Li, Xiapu Luo, Xusheng Xiao Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment ...

HYAS Investigates Threat Actors Hidden In Gaming Services

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 12, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Threat Actors Exploiting Legitimate Services to Disguise Traffic Recently, the HYAS Threat Intelligence team has noticed ...

How to Achieve POPIA Compliance: Complete Checklist

Get the essential checklist for POPIA compliance. Learn key requirements and steps to meet South Africa's data protection law. The post How to Achieve POPIA Compliance: Complete Checklist appeared first on Scytale. The post How to Achieve POPIA ...

Trump Campaign Hack Points to Growing U.S. Election Threats

The Trump campaign is claiming a hack is the work of Iranian operatives, adding to expanding election-interference campaigns that also include China and Russia, which the federal government calls the "predominant threat to U.S. elections." The ...

The Value in Root Cause Analysis for Vulnerability Management

Identifying and addressing underlying issues and their root causes can lead to risk reduction, cost savings and better overall performance of a vulnerability management program. The post The Value in Root Cause Analysis for Vulnerability ...

Criminal IP and Maltego Collaborate to Broaden Threat Intelligence Data Search

Torrance, United States / California, 12th August 2024, CyberNewsWire The post Criminal IP and Maltego Collaborate to Broaden Threat Intelligence Data Search appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Chrome, Edge users beset by malicious extensions that can’t be easily removed

A widespread campaign featuring a malicious installer that saddles users with difficult-to-remove malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions has been spotted by researchers. “The trojan malware contains different deliverables ranging from ...

Survey: Cybersecurity Teams Investing in Automation to Reduce Noise Levels

A global survey of 300 IT and security professionals suggests that while security budgets are increasing the way funding is being allocated is shifting as organizations look to automate workflows. The post Survey: Cybersecurity Teams Investing in ...

Unpatched MS Office flaw may leak NTLM hashes to attackers (CVE-2024-38200)

A new MS Office zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-38200) can be exploited by attackers to grab users’ NTLM hashes, Microsoft has shared late last week. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely and requires no special privileges or user ...

AI Integration, Budget Pressures Challenge CISOs

Chief information security officers (CISOs) are struggling to manage cybersecurity effectively due to a lack of strategic support from other C-suite executives, according to a LevelBlue survey of 1,050 C-suite and senior executives. The post AI ...

How Outdated Security Measures Can Devastate Your Organization

In today’s digital world, data exfiltration is a stealthy threat that often flies under the radar. The post How Outdated Security Measures Can Devastate Your Organization appeared first on Seceon. The post How Outdated Security Measures Can ...

Resecurity unveils new AI-driven Fraud Prevention Platform

Resecurity unveiled its advanced AI-driven Fraud Prevention Platform. This versatile solution is engineered to combat fraud across banking, virtual asset service providers (VASPs), gambling, e-commerce, and online marketplaces, providing a robust ...

Addressing Tomcat Vulnerabilities in End-of-Life Ubuntu Systems

Apache Tomcat is a widely used open-source web server and servlet container, but like any software, it is not immune to vulnerabilities. Canonical has released security updates to address multiple Tomcat vulnerabilities across different releases, ...

Crowdstrike, or “How to Own the Planet”

I recently wrote about reliable software. I also usually write about cybersecurity and major incidents. Today’s story intertwines both, in a situation so far reaching that, if you tried to write it as the script of the next Bond movie with a ...

MY TAKE: Black Hat USA 2024’s big takeaway – GenAI factors into the quest for digital resiliency

LAS VEGAS – Here’s what I discovered last week here at Black Hat USA 2024: GenAI is  very much in the mix as a potent X-factor in cybersecurity. Related: Prioritizing digital resiliency I spoke with over three dozen cybersecurity … ...

Scout Suite: Open-source cloud security auditing tool

Scout Suite is an open-source, multi-cloud security auditing tool designed to assess the security posture of cloud environments. By leveraging the APIs provided by cloud vendors, Scout Suite collects and organizes configuration data, making it ...

74% of ransomware victims were attacked multiple times in a year

An alarming trend toward multiple, sometimes simultaneous cyber attacks forces business leaders to re-evaluate their cyber resilience strategies to address common points of failure, including inadequate identity system backup and recovery ...

Steps to improve quality engineering and system robustness

Major tech outages have recently impacted customers and operations at McDonald’s, Greggs, Deliveroo, Tesco, and Barclays. In this Help Net Security video, Stephen Johnson, CEO of Roq, says it is now imperative for companies and ...