API security warrants its own specific solution
Application programming interfaces (APIs) enable developers to quickly and easily roll-out services but they’re also equally attractive to attackers. This is because they can …
GoTestWAF: Open-source project for evaluating web application security solutions
GoTestWAF is a tool for API and OWASP attack simulation that supports a wide range of API protocols including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, SOAP, XMLRPC, etc. It was …
What is wrong with developer security training?
“Turn a developer into a hacker” is a commonly heard call. There are many online courses and trainings that ostensibly teach developers how to write code that’s …
API attacks are both underdetected and underreported
Akamai released a research into the evolving threat landscape for application programming interfaces (APIs), which according to Gartner will be the most frequent online attack …
IriusRisk Community Edition offers free threat knowledge base for developers
IriusRisk has expanded the free Community Edition of its platform to include its entire threat and countermeasure knowledge base. Engineering teams using the Community Edition …
Approov offers free pinning generator tool to protect against automated attacks on APIs
Approov introduced the Mobile Certificate Pinning Generator, a free tool to help mobile-first companies make Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks targeting mobile app APIs a thing …
OWASP Top 10 2021: The most serious web application security risks
The definitive OWASP Top 10 2021 list is out, and it shows that broken access control is currently the most serious web application security risk. How is the list compiled? …
Sharing knowledge and moving towards securing all the things!
Originally a software developer (for 17 years), Tanya Janca, CEO of We Hack Purple, switched to security seven years ago. She founded the company to share as much knowledge as …
ShiftLeft Educate provides consistent and contextual training for developers of different skill levels
ShiftLeft announced general availability of ShiftLeft Educate, a solution that delivers highly-effective security training for developers within the developer workflow. …
Why XSS is still an XXL issue in 2021
Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks take advantage of coding flaws in the way websites or web applications generate input from users. Despite their longstanding reputation as a …
ShiftLeft allows users to validate the accuracy of ShiftLeft CORE using OWASP Benchmark
ShiftLeft has released a tool enabling businesses to independently benchmark and validate the accuracy of ShiftLeft CORE using the Open Web Application Security Project …
Most mobile finance apps vulnerable to data breaches
77% of financial apps have at least one serious vulnerability that could lead to a data breach, an Intertrust report reveals. This report comes at a time where finance mobile …