Application Security News and Articles


Attention: Google To Distrust Entrust TLS Certificates

Crypto-Agility Required to Migrate to a New Certificate Authority (CA) Seamlessly and Highlights Need for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Readiness This week Google announced that the Google Chrome browser will no longer trust TLS certificates ...

Temu is Malware — It Sells Your Info, Accuses Ark. AG

Chinese fast-fashion-cum-junk retailer “is a data-theft business.” The post Temu is Malware — It Sells Your Info, Accuses Ark. AG appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Situation’

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Skeleton Key the Latest Jailbreak Threat to AI Models: Microsoft

Microsoft details Skeleton Key, a new jailbreak technique in which a threat actor can convince an AI model to ignore its built-in safeguards and respond to requests for harmful, illegal, or offensive requests that might otherwise have been ...

The Eureka Moment: Discovering Application Traffic Observability

If you’ve been part of a network segmentation or Zero Trust architecture planning project or a data center or application migration initiative, the following scenario probably rings true. The post The Eureka Moment: Discovering Application ...

USENIX Security ’23 – Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models

Authors/Presenters:Nicholas Carlini, Jamie Hayes, DeepMind; Milad Nasr Matthew Jagielski, Vikash Sehwag, Florian Tramèr, Borja Balle, Daphne Ippolito, Eric Wallace Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 ...

What Is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM): A Comprehensive Guide

Get details on what ASPM is, the problems it solves, and what to look for.   The post What Is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM): A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Elevating Cloud Security: Highlights from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024

Explore insights from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024, including securing machine identities, digesting SLSA and GUAC, and the impact of quality documentation. The post Elevating Cloud Security: Highlights from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024 appeared ...

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast SVP of Cyber Strategy Tom Kellermann | 6/28

Insight #1 Most ransomware deploys a remote-access Trojan (RAT), which allows for secondary infections to occur and enables access to victims’ networks to be sold in Darkweb forums.   Insight #2 Most ransomware is delivered ...

AppViewX AVX ONE Certificate Lifecycle Management Integration With HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault is a robust and versatile open-source solution for comprehensive secrets management and data protection. At its core, HashiCorp Vault excels in securely storing and managing sensitive information, employing dynamic secrets to ...

How to Enhance Security Without Affecting the Customer Experience

Navigating the landscape of customer interactions is a delicate balancing act that requires constant calibration between security and operability (or usability, if speaking from a customer’s perspective). The post How to Enhance Security ...

The Urgency to Uplevel AppSec: Securing Your Organization’s Vulnerable Building Blocks

Let’s examine why so many applications remain vulnerable despite high-severity warnings and how to minimize the threat to your organization. The post The Urgency to Uplevel AppSec: Securing Your Organization’s Vulnerable Building Blocks ...

Introduction to NTA Auto-learning Function

The implementation of DDoS attack alerting relies on setting alert thresholds. Setting the threshold too high may result in false negatives, while setting it too low may lead to a high number of false positives. Therefore, it is crucial to ...

Cyberattack Rate Surges as Novel Malware Growth Accelerates

The rate of cyberattacks is rising as the threat level continues to evolve, according to BlackBerry Limited’s latest Global Threat Intelligence Report. The post Cyberattack Rate Surges as Novel Malware Growth Accelerates appeared first on ...

Why Is Reliable Software Surprising?

Software comes in all shapes and sizes: monolith applications, small utilities, run-of-the-mill middleware, web platforms, mobile apps, etc.. But it seems like finding one that actually “just works” as advertised is increasingly difficult.   ...

USX Cyber GUARDIENT helps MSPs protect their clients

USX Cyber unveiled GUARDIENT, an eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) cybersecurity platform designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) serving small to medium-sized businesses. This solution addresses the urgent need for ...

NSFOCUS Awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Best Practices Award for Managed Detection and Response Services

BEIJING, CHINA, June 28, 2024 – NSFOCUS, a leading global cybersecurity solution provider with over 20 years of industry experience, has been honored with the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2024 Best Practices Award for its managed detection ...

CISOs becoming more comfortable with risk levels

Shifts in the cyber threats landscape have changed the way today’s CISOs evaluate their business’s risk appetite, according to Netskope. CISO risk appetite levels Specifically, 92% of CISOs report that these changes are creating ...

Leveraging AI and automation for enhanced security operations

In this Help Net Security interview, Michelle Weston, VP of Security & Resiliency at Kyndryl, discusses the key challenges in security operations and how to address them. The top issues are increasing cyber resilience risks, changing ...

Web scraping is not just a security or fraud problem

Bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of these bots are malicious, according to Akamai. Negative effects of scraper bots on business operations Web scraping is not just a fraud or security problem, it is also a business problem. ...