web application security
CDNetworks to showcase Cloud Security 2.0 at Black Hat USA 2015
CDNetworks, the global content delivery network (CDN), will showcase Cloud Security 2.0 this week at Black Hat USA 2015, Booth IP29.Cloud Security 2.0 includes intelligent, …
Best practice application security: Does it exist?
Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, website breaches have become an everyday occurrence. In fact, hacked websites have become so common that typically only the biggest data …
Nearly all websites have serious security vulnerabilities
A new Acunetix report on 5,500 companies comprising 15,000 website and network scans, performed on over 1.9 million files, finds nearly half of the web applications scanned …
Akamai and Trustwave unite to protect businesses from online threats
Akamai Technologies, provider of content delivery network services, and managed security services firm Trustwave announced at Infosecurity Europe 2015 a new strategic alliance …
Companies stay vulnerable to web attacks for far too long
While no true security best practices exist, the key is in identifying the security metrics that mean the most to the organization and focusing on those activities to …
DDoS attacks double, old web application attack vectors still active
Akamai Technologies analyzed thousands of DDoS attacks as well as nearly millions of web application attack triggers across the Akamai Edge network.A surge in DDoS attack …
Millions of WordPress sites risk hijacking due to flaw in default theme
Guess what? Unless your site is hosted by one of 11 specific web hosts, it’s time to patch your WordPress installation again! Netsparker researchers have recently …
Qualys takes step towards complete automation of web app security
Qualys announced Qualys Web Application Firewall (WAF) version 2.0 that comes fully integrated with the Qualys Web Application Scanning solution (WAS). Presented at RSA …
Radware launches hybrid cloud based WAF service
Cyber attacks remain a persistent threat and have become sophisticated in size and scope. DoS, SQL injections and cross-site scripting are the most common web attack vectors, …
Main sources of data breaches: Phishing, RAM scrapers, web app insecurity
US telecom giant Verizon has published its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is based on an analysis of nearly 80,000 security incidents, including more than 2,100 …
False positive free online web application security scanner from Netsparker
Netsparker launched their new enterprise online service offering Netsparker Cloud, which enables organizations to simultaneously scan hundreds and thousands of websites for …
Over a million WP sites at risk of hijacking due to plugin bug
Users who run their websites on the popular WordPress CMS and are also using the WP-Slimstat web analytics plugin should update as soon as possible, warns Sucuri vulnerability …
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