Application Security News and Articles


What is Mobile Application Penetration Testing: Benefits & Tools

Mobile applications are ubiquitous, but their security can be a concern. Unlike web applications, in a mobile landscape, both the device and the mobile application have a crucial role in security due to increasing cyber threats. Mobile ...

Cloud Penetration Testing: Tools, Methodology & Prerequisites

Businesses increasingly migrate to cloud-based solutions for storage, applications, and critical functions. While the cloud offers scalability and agility, it also introduces new security challenges. Cloud penetration testing is a crucial defence ...

No Snow, No Flakes: Pondering Cloud Security Shared Responsibility, Again!

Disclaimer: this blog is very obviously inspired by current events, but it is absolutely not about those events. Meoooow! Lawyercats, stay away! No mice here. Dall-E via Copilot Lawyer Cat, Steampunk Vibe So, I hear there was some kinda incident ...

The Tolly Group Report Highlights SlashNext’s Gen AI-Powered Email Security Prowess

In the ever-evolving landscape of cyberthreats, email remains a prime target for malicious actors, with zero-hour Business Email Compromise (BEC) and advanced phishing attacks posing significant risks to organizations. A recent independent study ...

Growing Cyber Threats Amid Israel-Palestine Tensions

Growing Cyber Threats Focus on Ransomware, Infostealers, and Defacements This blog continues our geopolitical series, highlighting the growing cyber threats during the ongoing Israel-Palestine tensions. Recent months have seen a significant ...

Ghostwriter v4.2

Ghostwriter v4.2: Project Documents & Reporting Enhancements After April’s massive Ghostwriter v4.1 release, we received some great feedback and ideas. We got a little carried away working on these and created a release so big we had to ...

The Critical Role of Autonomous Penetration Testing in Strengthening Defense in Depth

NodeZero helps JTI Cybersecurity scale by automating penetration testing, finding vulnerabilities, and enhancing client security efficiently and effectively. The post The Critical Role of Autonomous Penetration Testing in Strengthening Defense in ...

USENIX Security ’23 – ELASM: Error-Latency-Aware Scale Management for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Authors/Presenters:Yongwoo Lee, Seonyoung Cheon, Dongkwan Kim, Dongyoon Lee, Hanjun Kim Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open ...

Is CVSS Alone Failing Us? Insights From Our Webinar With Verizon

In a recent webinar with Verizon, we discussed how organizations measure and prioritize their vulnerabilities. We reviewed insights from Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, and double-clicked on data to answer several other key ...

Update: CVE-2024-4577 quickly weaponized to distribute “TellYouThePass” Ransomware

Introduction Recently, Imperva Threat Research reported on attacker activity leveraging the new PHP vulnerability, CVE-2024-4577. From as early as June 8th, we have detected attacker activity leveraging this vulnerability to deliver malware, ...

Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, Luxshan Ratnaravi – #292 – We’re Doing DevOps

via the respected Software Engineering expertise of Mikkel Noe-Nygaard and the lauded Software Engineering / Enterprise Agile Coaching work of Luxshan Ratnaravi at Comic Agilé! Permalink The post Comic Agilé – Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, ...

CVE-2024-29849: Veeam discloses Critical Vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass user authentication on its Backup Enterprise Manager web interface

On May 21, 2024, Veeam revealed a severe flaw across its Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) web interface that enables an unauthenticated attacker to log into the web interface as any user. Officially designated as CVE-2024-29849, the ...

News Alert: Criminal IP unveils innovative fraud detection data products on Snowflake Marketplace

Torrance, Calif., June 10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solutions, announced that it has started selling its paid threat detection data from its CTI search engine ‘Criminal IP‘ on the Snowflake ...

Breach Debrief Series: Snowflake MFA Meltdown Creates Data Leak Blizzard

On May 27, a threat actor group called ShinyHunters announced that it was selling 560 million records stolen in a data breach. The records include names, email addresses, physical addresses, and partial credit card numbers. This personally ...

Fortinet to Expand AI, Cloud Security with Lacework Acquisition

Fortinet, known for network security capabilities within its Fortinet Security Fabric cybersecurity platform, is bolstering its AI and cloud security capabilities with the planned acquisition of Lacework and its AI-based offerings. The companies ...

The Future of Website Building: AI-Powered Solutions for Easier, Smarter, and More Personalized Websites

Explore the future of web design with AI. Find out how AI-powered tools can help you build smarter, more personalized websites that engage your audience and drive results. The post The Future of Website Building: AI-Powered Solutions for Easier, ...

Compliance Scorecard enhances its CaaS platform to improve MSPs’ cybersecurity posture

Compliance Scorecard has unveiled the latest version of its Compliance-as-a Service (CaaS) platform. The updated platform now includes advanced risk management tools, improved asset management capabilities, and new compliance reporting methods ...

Seceon’s Q2 2024 Partner Training: Insights and Highlights

Seceon's Quater Training event, held from May 20th to 22nd, was a dynamic convergence of industry leaders, .. The post Seceon’s Q2 2024 Partner Training: Insights and Highlights appeared first on Seceon. The post Seceon’s Q2 2024 Partner ...

KELA’s TPRM module identifies software supply chain risks

KELA launched the Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) module, fully integrated into its threat intelligence platform. This new offering is specifically designed to strengthen organizational defenses by focusing on software supply chain risks. ...

Criminal IP Unveils Innovative Fraud Detection Data Products on Snowflake Marketplace

Torrance, United States / California, 10th June 2024, CyberNewsWire The post Criminal IP Unveils Innovative Fraud Detection Data Products on Snowflake Marketplace appeared first on Security Boulevard.