Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Is Ready for Prime Time

We’ve heard it time and again. As security threats increase and morph, and user devices and locations diversify, multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be blossoming...

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NEW: Vulnerability and Assessment Scanning for Your AWS Cloud Databases

Scuba is a free and easy-to-use tool that uncovers hidden security risks. Scuba is frequently updated with content from Imperva’s Defense Center researchers. With Scuba...

Tax refund, or How to lose your remaining cash

Every year, vast numbers of people around the globe relish the delightful prospect of filling out tax returns, applying for tax refunds, etc. Given...

C-Suite Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity

Today, Centrify announced a new research study conducted with Dow Jones Customer Intelligence titled, “CEO Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity.” The report sheds light on...

New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from...

A Slice of 2017 Sofacy Activity

Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a highly active and prolific APT. From their high volume 0day deployment to...

Break the Trust and Stop the Breach: The Zero Trust Security Model

As 2018 is upon us, it’s time to take stock of our new realities and commit to better behavior that benefits us and our...

Spam and phishing in 2017

Figures of the year The share of spam in mail traffic came to 56.63%, down 1.68% against 2016. The biggest source of spam remains the US...

Integrate Your Ticketing System into Database Security to Prevent DBA Privilege Abuse

Many of the recent high-profile data security breaches were made by trusted insiders. They are often database administrators (DBAs) who are highly privileged and...

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Hackers Publish Malicious Python Package Mimicking Legitimate Parsimonious Parser

A deceptive Python package quietly made its way into the PyPI repository, putting thousands of developers at risk before it was caught and removed....

Microsoft identifies seven new ways AI agents can be hacked

Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, in addition to those it identified last year in...

Building secure B2C applications with fine-grained access control using Amazon Cognito and Amazon Verified...

Modern web applications require robust security controls to protect user data and application resources. Authentication and authorization are two fundamental pillars of application security...