Tag: application-security
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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FireTail Names Timo Rüppell as Vice President of Product FireTail Blog
Tags: api, application-security, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, cybersecurity, detection, Internet, office, privacy, security-incident, startup, technology, threatNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – McLean, Va. – Jan. 24, 2023 – FireTail Inc., a disruptor in API security, today announced the appointment of Timo Rüppell to the executive leadership team as Vice President of Product. In conjunction with bringing Rüppell on board, FireTail also opened a new company office in Helsinki, Finland.…
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OWASP Top 10 2025 Released: Major Revisions and Two New Security Classes Added
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has officially unveiled the eighth edition of its influential Top 10 security risks list for 2025, introducing significant changes that reflect the evolving landscape of application security threats. The update features two new security categories and substantial shifts in risk rankings based on contributed data and community feedback.…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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[Webinar] Automating Offensive Security with AI: A Guide to Scaling Pentesting with Escape
Automated pentesting is now one of the most hyped topics in cybersecurity, with AI systems promising to replace human hackers. But how much is real, and how much is marketing hype? This webinar provides a practical guide to automating offensive security, built from the perspective of offensive and application security First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Why API Security Will Drive AppSec in 2026 and Beyond
As LLMs, agents and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) reshape software architecture, API sprawl is creating major security blind spots. The 2025 GenAI Application Security Report reveals why continuous API discovery, testing and governance are now critical to protecting AI-driven applications from emerging semantic and prompt-based attacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/why-api-security-will-drive-appsec-in-2026-and-beyond/
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Why API Security Will Drive AppSec in 2026 and Beyond
As LLMs, agents and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) reshape software architecture, API sprawl is creating major security blind spots. The 2025 GenAI Application Security Report reveals why continuous API discovery, testing and governance are now critical to protecting AI-driven applications from emerging semantic and prompt-based attacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/why-api-security-will-drive-appsec-in-2026-and-beyond/
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Why API Security Will Drive AppSec in 2026 and Beyond
As LLMs, agents and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) reshape software architecture, API sprawl is creating major security blind spots. The 2025 GenAI Application Security Report reveals why continuous API discovery, testing and governance are now critical to protecting AI-driven applications from emerging semantic and prompt-based attacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/why-api-security-will-drive-appsec-in-2026-and-beyond/
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Best Application Security Testing Services to Know
Discover the best Application Security Testing (AST) services in 2025. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/best-application-security-testing-services-to-know/
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Bugcrowd Purchases Mayhem to Expand AppSec Testing Platform
Joint Platform to Offer Human-Led, Automated Application Security in One Place. Bugcrowd acquired Mayhem Security to integrate automated application testing with human-led testing capabilities. The company plans to embed Pittsburgh-based Mayhem’s reinforcement learning tech and AI models into its broader platform to speed up vulnerability detection. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/bugcrowd-purchases-mayhem-to-expand-appsec-testing-platform-a-29925
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Bugcrowd Acquires Mayhem Security To Boost Autonomous App Testing
Bugcrowd announced the acquisition Tuesday of Mayhem Security, a longtime provider of autonomous application security testing, in a bid to help accelerate vulnerability remediation. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/bugcrowd-acquires-mayhem-security-to-boost-autonomous-app-testing
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Financial services can’t shake security debt
In financial services, application security risk is becoming a long game. Fewer flaws appear in new code, but old ones linger longer, creating a kind of software “interest” … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/04/veracode-financial-services-security-debt/
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Financial services can’t shake security debt
In financial services, application security risk is becoming a long game. Fewer flaws appear in new code, but old ones linger longer, creating a kind of software “interest” … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/04/veracode-financial-services-security-debt/
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8 Top Application Security Tools (2026 Edition)
The software revolution has redefined what’s possible in global business. Complex applications underpin e-commerce, healthcare, finance, transportation, and… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/top-application-security-tools-2026/
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Malicious packages in npm evade dependency detection through invisible URL links: Report
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, control, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, flaw, github, governance, hacker, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, programming, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, trainingCampaign also exploits AI: The names of packages uploaded to npm aren’t typosquats of common packages, a popular tactic of threat actors. Instead the hackers exploit AI hallucinations. When developers ask AI assistants for package recommendations, the chatbots sometimes suggest plausible-sounding names that are close to those of legitimate packages, but that don’t actually exist.…
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Smarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSmarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security madhav Thu, 10/23/2025 – 05:36 Critical infrastructure (CI) organizations are, as the name suggests, some of the most important in the global economy. They’re also some of the most technologically complex and, crucially, vulnerable. Their security must reflect that. Data Security…
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Smarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSmarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security madhav Thu, 10/23/2025 – 05:36 Critical infrastructure (CI) organizations are, as the name suggests, some of the most important in the global economy. They’re also some of the most technologically complex and, crucially, vulnerable. Their security must reflect that. Data Security…
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Self-propagating worm found in marketplaces for Visual Studio Code extensions
Tags: access, application-security, attack, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, ciso, control, credentials, crime, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, endpoint, framework, github, gitlab, google, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, marketplace, network, open-source, resilience, risk, sans, security-incident, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormMarketplaces targeted: The Koi Security report is the latest in a series of warnings that threat actors are increasingly targeting VS Code marketplaces in supply chain attacks. Last week, Koi Security exposed a threat actor dubbed TigerJack spreading malicious extensions. And researchers at Wiz just published research showing the widespread abuse of the OpenVSX and…
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Mend.io Expands AI Native AppSec to Windsurf, CoPilot, Claude Code, and Amazon Q Developer
Learn how Mend.io brings real-time AppSec to AI coding tools. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/mend-io-expands-ai-native-appsec-to-windsurf-copilot-claude-code-and-amazon-q-developer/
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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F5 discloses breach tied to nation-state threat actor
F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of the breach under…
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F5 disclosures breach tied to nation-state threat actor
F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of the breach under…