Application Security

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

BreachQuest is building a SaaS platform, named PRIORI, that aims to modernize incident response by providing automated end-to-end readiness and response capabilities. The company says its product can provide enhanced visibility, continuously monitoring systems in an effort to detect threats. When a threat has been detected, the platform provides detailed information in order to enable…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The latest Android update provides documentation on 33 security bugs, some serious enough to cause privilege escalation or information disclosure compromises. The most important of these is a bug in the Media framework that could lead to elevation of privilege on Android 8.1 and 9 devices, or information disclosure, on Android 10 and 11. The…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Built on a client-server model architecture and in use for roughly five decades, FTP allows for the easy transfer of files and folders between computers. However, because data is transmitted unencrypted, the protocol has long been considered insecure. Secure variants do exist, including one that leverages SSL/TLS (FTPS), or the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)….

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

According to Atlassian, security researcher Harrison Neal discovered that Jira Data Center — including Software Data Center and Core Data Center — and Jira Service Management Data Center software development products are affected by a critical flaw related to missing authentication for the Ehcache RMI network service. An attacker who can connect to this service…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The search advertising giant released a Chrome security refresh overnight with a warning that malicious hackers are actively exploiting a critical type confusion vulnerability to launch malware attacks. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2021-30563 exists in the wild,” the company said in a cryptic line added to its advisory. The vulnerability…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The open-source browser refresh is currently rolling out with support for Fetch Metadata Request Headers, which means that web applications can better protect users against cross-site request forgery (CSRF), cross-site leaks (XS-Leaks), and speculative cross-site execution side channel attacks (such as Spectre). With the newly introduced feature, web application servers can distinguish between same-origin and…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Sevco Security, based in Austin, Texas, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures. The company said .406 Ventures, Accomplice, Bill Wood Ventures and fama Ventures also joined as investors. In a statement, Sevco Security said its platform delivers two values to customers: continuous converged visibility of all assets across siloed…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2020, the Silicon Valley-based enterprise API security startup aims to help organizations secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. The startup says it has seen fast growth since emerging from stealth in December 2020. Over the past six months, the company has attracted 40 channel, reseller, and technology partners, while also adding hundreds of…