Application Security

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Black Hat USA 2024 once again served as a launchpad for several cybersecurity products and services with many notable vendors as well as up-and-coming startups showcasing their innovations at the annual conference, held this week in Las Vegas. The event, alongside the RSA Conference, remains a pivotal moment in the cybersecurity calendar, offering insights into…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the introduction of the cloud version of ESET Secure Authentication, the multifactor authentication module of the ESET PROTECT Platform. With the new offering, ESET customers can consolidate their security stack and have endpoint protection and multifactor authentication (MFA) provided natively from one vendor with a single pane…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Lakera, the world’s leading real-time Generative AI (GenAI) Security company, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Led by European VC Atomico, with participation from Citi Ventures, Dropbox Ventures, and existing investors including redalpine, this investment brings Lakera’s total funding to $30 million. This funding positions Lakera at the forefront of the…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

The mad dash to the cloud a few years back left many organizations scrambling to understand the true implications of this technological shift. Fueled by promises of scalability and cost savings, many companies jumped on board without fully comprehending key details. For example, many were asking how secure their data was in the cloud, who…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Application security (AppSec) programs are difficult to use and filled with vulnerabilities. Overloaded staff face an inadequate budget. Communication with developers is challenging. These sayings are so true, so ubiquitous, that they’ve become tropes. This is why meeting a team of two who managed to resolve 70,000 security vulnerabilities in three months made me gasp….

Application Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) feature since April. A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous data breaches, phishing campaigns, or info-stealer infections, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on various…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) aligned with China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are all using large language models (LLMs) to enhance their operations. New blog posts from OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that five major threat actors have been using OpenAI software for research, fraud, and other malicious purposes. After identifying them, OpenAI shuttered all their…

Application Security

Issued by: Naked Security

Organizations with distributed workforces are increasingly reliant on cloud-based productivity platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for email, file sharing, and collaboration. Read on to learn how Sophos’ new integration with Google Workspace can help defend against advanced attacks against your business-critical productivity tools. Detect and respond to threats targeting your Google Workspace environments…

Application Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scrapped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioners’ Office on Monday announced that it’s soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts, and other industry stakeholders on how privacy rights might be affected by developments in generative AI. Since…

Application Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Visa’s newest security piece applies AI to customer transactions, analyzing them for their probability of fraud. Payment network Visa will offer a new AI-powered system designed to combat token fraud, analyzing transactions for patterns that could indicate fraudulent activity and help protect financial institutions against losses. The new product, dubbed Visa Provisioning Intelligence, is now…