MongoBleed and a recent OWASP CRS bypass show how parsing problems remain a source of security flaws regardless of programming language. We talk with Kalyani Pawar about how these problems rank against the Top 25 CWEs for 2025 and what it means for relying on LLMs to generate code.
Developers are adding LLMs to their code creation toolboxes, using them to assist with writing and reviewing code. Chris Wysopal talks about the security downsides of relying on LLMs and how appsec needs to adapt to dealing with more code at a faster pace. Resources. https://www.veracode.com/blog/genai-code-security-report/. https://www.veracode.co...
Security Boulevard reports that more than 900,000 Google Chrome users have had their conversations with AI chatbots ChatGPT and DeepSeek stolen via malicious extensions impersonating an add-on by AITOPIA, which places a sidebar for chatting with large language models.
Our field is booming! Cybersecurity jobs are projected to grow 33 percent through 2033, far outpacing the average 4 percent growth across all jobs. (And yes, those stats could be made up, but they sound nice, eh?) Yet newcomers often feel paralyzed by where to start. The truth? There's no single "right path," but there are proven strategies that wo...
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