Application security has become a complex, distributed problem. During the days of waterfall development and monolithic applications, application security was pretty straight forward – statically scan your source code, dynamically test your business logic, and deploy a web application firewall to protect layer 7 traffic. But with agile development, DevOps processes, and containerized applications, application […]
Average quarterly exposure to phishing attacks on mobile devices in the financial sector rose by 125% – and malware and app risk exposure increased by more than five times.
The five bugs, collectively cataloged as CVE-2021-21551, create privilege escalation and denial of service issues stemming from memory corruption, lack of authentication, and code logic flaws.
The flaws affect at least 25 different products made by more than a dozen organizations, including Amazon, ARM, Google Cloud, Samsung, RedHat, Apache and others.
Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing the security challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things technology.
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