Applications
Stay up-to-date with the latest security technologies and best practices to secure software applications, identify vulnerabilities, and protect your code from potential threats. As software development accelerates, robust application security is essential to safeguard against exploits and breaches.
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AI Coding: A Security Problem?
Andrej Karpathy is a former research scientist and founding member of OpenAI. He was also the senior director of AI at Tesla. Lately, he has been using Copilot, which leverages GPT-3 to generate code. He tweeted this about it: “Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it’s hard…
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What is Virtual Patching and How Does It Work?
Virtual patching uses policies, rules and security tools to block access to a vulnerability until it can be patched. Zero-day threats and legacy systems are two ways that vulnerabilities can be created for which no patch may exist for some time, if ever. In those cases, security teams can block a potential attack path until…
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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions
Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a…
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GitHub Adds New Security Features for Open Source Community
GitHub has announced new features that could improve both developers’ experience and supply chain security. The “private vulnerability” reports announced at GitHub Universe 2022 will allow open-source maintainers to receive private issues from the community. Maintainers will be able to receive reports and collaborate with security professionals and all other issuers to patch vulnerabilities. Also…
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Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?
Patch management is all about helping organizations manage the process of patching software and applications. It encompasses functions such as testing patches, prioritizing them, deploying them, verifying that they are installed in all endpoints, and in general looking after every aspect of patching. But patching can be a time-consuming – and ineffective – task. There…
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Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised?
In the ever-evolving fight against data loss, data breaches, and data theft in the 21st century, organizations worldwide have turned to a number of cybersecurity solutions, services, and software in an attempt to keep their data safe and secure from threats. One such solution is behavioral analytics, more specifically User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).…
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Okta ‘Breaches’ Weren’t Really Breaches
With two high-profile breaches this year, Okta, a leader in identity and access management (IAM), made the kind of headlines that security vendors would rather avoid. After seeing headlines like these, some executives and customers lose faith that multifactor authentication (MFA) technology, particularly Okta’s, will protect their organizations, but should they? The tech world defines…
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The Challenges Facing the Passwordless Future
For years the tech industry has promised a shift toward a passwordless future. In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Google, Paypal, and Lenovo were among the original FIDO founding members. By 2015, Microsoft joined, and in 2020, Apple followed. The road to…
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Software Supply Chain Security Guidance for Developers
Whether it’s package hijacking, dependency confusing, typosquatting, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) compromises, or basic web exploitation of outdated dependencies, there are many software supply chain attacks adversaries can perform to take down their victims, hold them to ransom, and exfiltrate critical data. It’s often more efficient to attack a weak link in the…
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CI/CD Pipeline is Major Software Supply Chain Risk: Black Hat Researchers
Continuous integration and development (CI/CD) pipelines are the most dangerous potential attack surface of the software supply chain, according to NCC researchers. The presentation at last week’s Black Hat security conference by NCC’s Iain Smart and Viktor Gazdag, titled “RCE-as-a-Service: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Real-World CI/CD Pipeline Compromise,” builds on previous work NCC…
