Application Security News and Articles


Misconfigurations and IAM weaknesses top cloud security concerns

Traditional cloud security issues often associated with cloud service providers (CSPs) are continuing to decrease in importance, according to the Top Threats to Cloud Computing 2024 report by the Cloud Security Alliance. Misconfigurations, IAM ...

USENIX Security ’23 – VulChecker: Graph-based Vulnerability Localization in Source Code

Authors/Presenters:Yisroel Mirsky, George Macon, Michael Brown, Carter Yagemann, Matthew Pruett, Evan Downing, Sukarno Mertoguno, Wenke Lee Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and ...

Book Review: ‘Why Cybersecurity Fails in America’

Carter Schoenberg is a trusted security expert who has vast experience in the public and private sectors. Here’s his guidance on what works and what doesn’t with the cybersecurity industry. The post Book Review: ‘Why Cybersecurity Fails in ...

Week in review: Tips for starting your cybersecurity career, Patch Tuesday forecast

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: August 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: Looking for a calm August release August 2024 July ended up being more ‘exciting’ than many of us ...

QuickShell: Sharing Is Caring about an RCE Attack Chain on Quick Share

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 ...

Emulating Humans for Cybercrime Purposes

It's 2009 and I just stumbled upon the extremely sophisticated Xedant Human Emulator (XHE) (hxxp://humanemulator.info) which basically automates human interactions with Web and online properties to the point of sophisticated and was in a way ...

Специални Поздрави За Всички Който "Го Правят" В България

Кой е човека който дава определение на това какво е циганин? Ако си циганин да ти еба майката путката мръсна и да не си измисля работи ...

USENIX Security ’23 – V1SCAN: Discovering 1-day Vulnerabilities in Reused C/C++ Open-Source Software Components Using Code Classification Techniques

Authors/Presenters:Seunghoon Woo, Eunjin Choi, Heejo Lee, Hakjoo Oh Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from ...

Move From FedRAMP to DoD with Impact Level Assessment

We’ve written extensively before about FedRAMP’s impact levels. As a brief refresher, there are four: Li-SaaS, the lowest of the low-security levels, is made for non-critical cloud applications that handle no tangible CUI. Low Impact, which ...

Cyber attacks 2024: The biggest attacks of the first half of 2024

The post Cyber attacks 2024: The biggest attacks of the first half of 2024 appeared first on Click Armor. The post Cyber attacks 2024: The biggest attacks of the first half of 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Sonatype’s summer webinar series: Future cybersecurity requirements

Sonatype kicked off its Summer of Software Regulations & Compliance webinar series this week with a broad look at some of the key regulations on improving cybersecurity. Jen Ellis, one of the hosts of the Distilling Cyber Policy podcast, ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Cheesecloth: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Real World Vulnerabilities

Authors/Presenters:Santiago Cuéllar, Bill Harris, James Parker, Stuart Pernsteiner, Eran Tromer Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to ...

Behind the Scenes at Black Hat 2024

The post Behind the Scenes at Black Hat 2024 appeared first on AI-enhanced Security Automation. The post Behind the Scenes at Black Hat 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

HPE Infuses AI Into Network Detection and Response Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference extended its network detection and response (NDR) capabilities that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) models to enable behavioral analytics. The post HPE ...

Aqua Security Researchers Disclose Series of AWS Flaws

Aqua Security this week at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference revealed that it has discovered six vulnerabilities in the cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The post Aqua Security Researchers Disclose Series of AWS Flaws appeared ...

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘University Age’

via the comic & dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘University Age’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Preview of State of GitHub Actions Security Report: Security of GH Workflows Building Blocks

Understand the security status of GitHub Actions workflows and how to mitigate the risk. The post Preview of State of GitHub Actions Security Report: Security of GH Workflows Building Blocks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

USENIX Security ’23 – Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities

Authors/Presenters:Nicholas Boucher, Ross Anderson Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s ...

The Role of Microsegmentation in Kubernetes Environments

Optimizing Kubernetes security and efficiency of through granular control Kubernetes stands out as a powerful and versatile platform amongst application systems, allowing organizations to efficiently manage containers. However, enterprises face ...

Trail of Bits’ Buttercup heads to DARPA’s AIxCC

With DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) semifinal starting today at DEF CON 2024, we want to introduce Buttercup, our AIxCC submission. Buttercup is a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) that combines conventional cybersecurity techniques like fuzzing ...