software

Mobile Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

A version of the Shein shopping application in the Google Play store with more than 100 million downloads was unnecessarily accessing Android-device clipboard contents, creating a potential security threat, according to Microsoft. The software giant said in a blog post from Microsoft Threat Intelligence that it asked Shein to remove the feature from its Android…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-1017 and CVE-2023-1018, provide pathways for an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite protected data in the TPM firmware and launch code execution attacks, according to an advisory from Carnegie Mellon’s CERT coordination center. From the CERT alert: “An authenticated, local attacker could send maliciously crafted commands to a vulnerable TPM allowing…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

While Zero Trust is a term that is often misunderstood as well as misused, it is an approach that has real value in helping to reduce systematic cyber risk and improve resiliency. Organizations of all sizes understand that they require a resilient cybersecurity strategy that can support and enable the business even during a crisis,…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

As more organizations shift to cloud-native application development to support new business features and digital transformation initiatives, software supply chain issues have become more visible. Because cloud-native development relies so heavily on open source software, organizations have to start thinking about the components that go into these applications. To build these cloud-native applications, developers have…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

The rise of the cloud has made business more agile, flexible, and streamlined, which are all solid reasons why over 90% of enterprises have committed to a multicloud strategy. But complexity creates seams where secrets leak out. Recent high-profile breaches at Microsoft and at airports have made misconfigured S3 buckets a cybersecurity trope. However, configuration…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

C2A Security, a leading provider of automated cybersecurity solutions for connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles will showcase its flagship product, EVSec, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2023) taking place in Las Vegas, January 5-8, 2023. EVSec’s innovative automated cybersecurity DevOps platform helps C2A Security customers and partners including Thundersoft, NTT Data, Marelli, MIH, and…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

In August password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. In response to the incident, the company deployed containment and mitigation measures and implemented additional enhanced…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Product supply-chain traceability is a very important aspect in manufacturing as it contributes directly to product safety, quality, and, as an emerging trend, product sustainability and ethics. In terms of safety, automotive manufacturers consistently announce product recalls to protect their customers from failure of faulty parts, as well as to protect themselves by being compliant…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2012, the New York-based company offers Data Embassy, a software platform that aims to protect data in use by applying pseudonymization and other techniques to transform the data into ‘Variant Twins’, representing non-identifiable but fully accurate assets. Courtesy of multi-level data privacy and security controls, the company says, Variant Twins can be used…