Category Archives: Application Security
As SolarWinds spooks tech firms into rechecking code, some won’t like what they find
If more attacks are uncovered, end-user organizations must apply lessons learned from SolarWinds and take decisive action.
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70% of apps for the manufacturing sector spent all of 2020 with at least one security flaw
With public administration apps, the number that went a year with an unpatched security flaw dropped to 67 percent, and nine other sectors ranged between 50 and 60 percent, according to research from WhiteHat Security.
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Reliance on cloud, APIs create confusion and introduce risk into software development
Businesses are increasingly hosting their applications in public or private clouds while using APIs to speed up the development process. Both shifts come with security implications.
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Sunspot malware scoured servers for SolarWinds builds that it could weaponize
Software company says 2 customer inquires, in hindsight, appear linked to supply-chain attack
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Perils of coding errors play out in Parler slip up
Applied to internet applications in general, the IDOR problems that led to the Parler exposure could extend to anything stored sequentially and not secured individually — receipts, posts, and in many instances entire accounts.
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‘I’ll Teams you’: Employees assume security of links, file sharing via Microsoft comms platform
In theory they know better. But Users naïvely trust workplace communications platforms, despite phishing and impersonation threats.
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