Application Security News and Articles


Serial cybersecurity founders get back in the game

“I didn’t really have a choice,” says Ben Bernstein, the former CEO and co-founder of Twistlock (acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2019) and the CEO and co-founder of a new cybersecurity startup that is still in stealth. “Building a ...

The rise and evolution of supply chain attacks

A supply chain attack is a cyberattack that focuses on a third-party supplier providing essential services or software to the supply chain. In this Help Net Security video, Dick O’Brien, Principal Intelligence Analyst in the Symantec Threat ...

Latest fraud schemes targeting the payments ecosystem

Threat actors continued to exploit technical misconfigurations through various fraud schemes, according to a new report from Visa. These include the use of malvertising and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to cultivate compelling and ...

Privacy concerns cast a shadow on AI’s potential for software development

Organizations are optimistic about AI, but AI adoption requires attention to privacy and security, productivity, and training, according to GitLab. “The transformational opportunity with AI goes way beyond creating code,” said David DeSanto, ...

Maintaining Trust: Customer Identity Verification Challenges & Best Practices

Trust is paramount for successful customer relationships in our digital age. However, customer identity verification faces evolving challenges, from identity theft to balancing security with a seamless user experience. Explore how adopting ...

Obsidian Security Receives the 2023 SINET16 Innovator Award

SINET, a leading body in cybersecurity innovation, has named Obsidian Security a winner of its annual SINET16 Innovators Award.  This recognition celebrates companies at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, leveraging technology-driven ...

Adobe, Apple, Google & Microsoft Patch 0-Day Bugs

Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Also, Adobe, Google Chrome and Apple iOS ...

Patch Tuesday Update – September 2023

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Build a Custom Kubernetes Platform? Or Try the Insights Free Tier?

As businesses grow and scale, the deployment of applications and services on production Kubernetes environments becomes increasingly prevalent. Platform engineering and development teams often grapple with ensuring these applications run ...

LogRhythm Announces More Details on RhythmWorld 2023 Security Conference

RhythmWorld 2023 Releases Full Agenda   BROOMFIELD, Colo., September 12, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals into trustworthy insights, today announced ...

6 Ways Passwords Can be Stolen — and How Passwordless Can Stop Them All

Passwords have gotten a lot of attention lately. Why? Because they pose a double threat with hackers and users. According to the Verizon 2023 DBIR, 86% of breaches involve stolen, weak, or default passwords. Of those breaches, 74% involve the ...

Cybersecurity the Biggest Challenge for Smaller Organizations

A survey identified cybersecurity as the biggest challenge small organizations face today, with 49% more concerned than they were six months ago. The post Cybersecurity the Biggest Challenge for Smaller Organizations appeared first on Security ...

GitHub Vulnerability Put Code Packages at Risk of Repojacking

A new vulnerability found in GitHub’s operations could have given bad actors another way of getting around the code hosting platform’s security protections and exposing thousands of code packages to being hijacked. A hacker could have ...

Safeguarding Gig Economy Platforms from SMS Toll Fraud

The varied ways in which gig economy platforms use short message service (SMS) make them attractive targets for bot-driven SMS toll fraud. To prevent financial losses and erosion of consumer trust, gig economy platforms must use bot detection and ...

BSides Buffalo 2023 – Jeff Hoge – Mitigating (Radio)Active Directory

Many thanks to BSides Buffalo for publishing their presenter’s outstanding BSides Buffalo security content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSides Buffalo 2023 – Jeff Hoge – Mitigating (Radio)Active ...

Microsoft, Adobe fix zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-26369, CVE-2023-36761, CVE-2023-36802)

September 2023 Patch Tuesday is here, with fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader (CVE-2023-26369), Microsoft Word (CVE-2023-36761), and Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy (CVE-2023-36802). Microsoft ...

Zero Day Summer: Microsoft Warns of Fresh New Software Exploits

Microsoft’s struggles with zero-day exploits rolled into a new month with a fresh Patch Tuesday warning about malware attacks in the wild. The post Zero Day Summer: Microsoft Warns of Fresh New Software Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Foresite Partners with Apptega to Deliver Ironclad Cybersecurity Programs to Rapidly Expanding Customer Base

Foresite today announced a new partnership with Apptega to leverage Foresite’s ProVision platform to simplify cybersecurity and compliance with single sign-on for Foresite partners and their customers. This new offering will further enable ...

Kingston launches IronKey D500S, a hardware-encrypted USB flash drive

Kingston Digital has launched the Kingston IronKey D500S, a hardware-encrypted USB flash drive that provides military-grade security for classified data in transit. D500S is FIPS 140-3 Level 3 (Pending) certified with new enhancements from NIST ...