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In testimony before the the US House Intelligence Committee, security pros at Google and Citizen Lab make fresh calls for a wholesale clampdown on problematic commercial spyware vendors. [Read More]
Redmond's security research teams intercept multiple zero-day attacks attributed to DSIRF, a private cyber mercenary firm operating out of Austria. [Read More]
Reports say a Greek lawmaker in the European Parliament was targeted with malicious links trying to plant the Predator spyware program. [Read More]
A major security vulnerability in the open source PrestaShop software is being exploited in the wild and approximately 300,000 merchant shops are at risk. [Read More]
SonicWall ships urgent patches for a critical flaw in its Global Management System (GMS) software, warning that the defect exposes businesses to remote hacker attacks. [Read More]
Researchers at Intezer are documenting the intricacies of Lightning Framework, an undetected Swiss Army Knife-like Linux malware capable of installing rootkits. [Read More]
A study of the evolution of cybercrime suggests the threat will only get worse as financially motivated malware gangs start to mimic the operations of legitimate businesses. [Read More]
Silicon Valley SOC startup Anvilogic has deposited $25 million in a new investment round led by Outpost Ventures. [Read More]
Apple's security response team has pushed out software fixes for at least 39 software vulnerabilities haunting the macOS Catalina, iOS and iPadOS platforms. [Read More]
British startup Push Security has banked $4 million in early-stage funding to help secure SaaS app deployments. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Application Security
With a holistic approach you can enable efficient segmentation across your infrastructure, identify anomalies faster by using process behavior deviations, and reduce your attack surface quickly.
This move to container-based development and agile methodologies has been great for innovation and iteration, but it’s also brought a massive shift in the application landscape with real impact on security teams.
As organizations digitize their business and make these shifts, they need to know what and who they can trust.
By paying just a bit more attention to the permissions you are allowing on your phone or computer, you could protect yourself from a much more significant headache down the road.
While GDPR doesn’t require encryption, there are four mentions of encryption in GDPR that provide real incentives for organizations to use encryption.
A confluence of factors is putting hundreds of thousands of implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications at risk of cyber attacks.
Applications contain three specific components where vulnerabilities can be found, and each must be tested in a different way for security testing to be complete.
As you start to get an idea of what your application portfolio looks like, you then need to start determining the specific risks that applications can expose your organization to.
From a security perspective, to create understand application dependencies you need not only to understand the flows and servers, you need to understand the ports and underlying processes.
Today an organization may have thousands of apps on the internet, but having thousands of monolithic security devices just isn’t practical.
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