Application Security News and Articles


Mastering the Art of Incident Response: From Chaos to Control

Today, it’s not a matter of if your organization will face a cyberattack but when. Imagine this: An employee’s PC starts behaving erratically, displaying an ominous message that files have been encrypted and data exfiltrated. It’s the stuff ...

Navigating SAP Security Notes: June 2024 Patch Tuesday

SAP published 10 new and two updated Security Notes for June 2024 Patch Tuesday. Compared to May’s SAP Security Patch Day release, this month’s release contains fewer patches overall and with lower severity. Only two Security Notes received ...

Patch Tuesday Update – June 2024

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Asset Discovery: A Must Have for Understanding Your Complete Attack Surface

Asset Discovery: A Must Have for Understanding Your Complete Attack Surface Asset Discovery, a.k.a. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See Why Speed is Important to Asset Discovery In Summary Get a Demo Asset Discovery: A Must ...

Microsoft fixes RCE vulnerabilities in MSMQ, Outlook (CVE-2024-30080, CVE-2024-30103)

June 2024 Patch Tuesday is here and Microsoft has delivered fixes for a critical MSMQ flaw (CVE-2024-30080) and a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2024-30103). 49 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities have been fixed in total, none of which ...

USENIX Security ’23 – A Verified Confidential Computing As A Service Framework For Privacy Preservation

Authors/Presenters:Hongbo Chen, Haobin Hiroki Chen, Mingshen Sun, Kang Li, Zhaofeng Chen, XiaoFeng Wang Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment ...

The Surprising Supporter Behind the Push to Modernize GSOCs: The C-Suite

The increased attention from the C-Suite signals that executives want better alignment between security and the business. Security leaders are seeing enthusiasm, even mounting pressure, from company leaders to upgrade their organizations’ ...

Network Equipment, IoT Devices are Big Security Risks: Forescout

IT systems – and this year networking equipment in particular – continue to pose the most security risk for organizations, but it is the vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are quickly moving up the ladder, according to ...

PreVeil Email: Enhancing Traditional Email with Secure and Private Communication

PreVeil Email offers a secure and private enhancement to conventional email solutions such as Gmail and O365, addressing their inherent limitations in security, privacy, and compliance without disrupting the user’s existing email habits. ...

The TIDE: Threat-Informed Defense Education (Qilin, RansomHub, BlackSuit)

This is our second installment of The TIDE, which is your guide to all things Threat-Informed Defense—at least in terms of what my Adversary Intelligence Team works on and provides to our customers weekly. Last week I wrote about the work that ...

Lateral Movement with the .NET Profiler

Lateral Movement with the .NET Profiler The accompanying code for this blogpost can be found HERE. Intro I spend a lot of my free time modding Unity games. Since Unity is written in C#, the games are very easy to work with compared to those ...

7 Deadly Sins of API Security Testing

Explore the misconceptions and anti-patterns of applying security testing to APIs, and how to address them. The post 7 Deadly Sins of API Security Testing appeared first on Dana Epp's Blog. The post 7 Deadly Sins of API Security Testing appeared ...

Microsoft, Google Come to the Aid of Rural Hospitals

Microsoft and Google will provide free or low-cost cybersecurity tools and services to rural hospitals in the United States at a time when health care facilities are coming under increasing attack by ransomware gangs and other threat groups. For ...

What is the Difference Between Non-Human Identity Management, Machine Identity Management, and Workload Identity and Access Management?

5 min read Discover how these different approaches can work together to protect your organization's sensitive data and ensure seamless operations. The post What is the Difference Between Non-Human Identity Management, Machine Identity Management, ...

Ticketmaster is Tip of Iceberg: 165+ Snowflake Customers Hacked

“UNC5537” breached at least 165 Snowflake instances, including Ticketmaster, LendingTree and, allegedly, Advance Auto Parts. The post Ticketmaster is Tip of Iceberg: 165+ Snowflake Customers Hacked appeared first on Security Boulevard.

‘cors-parser’ npm package hides cross-platform backdoor in PNG files

'cors-parser' is neither a cure for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) vulnerabilities nor a "parser" for interpreting same-origin policies of a website. Instead, the npm package employs a form of steganography to download what may appear to be ...

File Integrity Monitoring vs. File Activity Monitoring: Which is Best?

2024 has already been a tumultuous year for information security. Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report revealed some shocking statistics about criminal activity and attacks involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities: They have ...

USENIX Security ’23 – HECO: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler

Authors/Presenters:Alexander Viand, Patrick Jattke, Miro Haller, Anwar Hithnawi Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open ...

Verizon DBIR 2024: The rise in software supply chain attacks explained

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is considered to be one of the leading annual reports on the state of cybersecurity. The report, which analyzes thousands of data breaches from the previous year, breaks down these incidents by ...

Protecto improves data security and privacy for GenAI apps in Databricks environments

Protecto announced its latest capabilities designed to protect sensitive enterprise data, such as PII and PHI, and block toxic content, such as insults and threats within Databricks environments. This enhancement is pivotal for organizations ...