Exploit for Improper Privilege Management in Cloudcti Hip_Integrator_Recognition_Configuration_Tool

Author: Arn Vollebregt Introduction Creativity is at the c...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

Software Defense Series: Exploit mitigation and vulnerability detection

Software Defense is a broad topic requiring a multipronged approach including: - the processes and tooling associated with secure development that we try and encapsulate within the Microsoft SDL, - core OS countermeasures that make exploitation of a given vulnerability more difficult for an...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 3: Toward an AppSec Center of Excellence

This post is the third in a 4-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. The series will define the components of a sound AppSec program, delineate the growing threats to software, weigh the costs of a data breach, and outline the CISO’s responsibility in managing software security risk...

Making an Application Security Program Succeed, Part Two

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,” is a quote attributed to legendary automaker Henry Ford. While it seemingly has nothing to do with secure application development, all you need to do is talk to a handful of enterprises who have tried to implement a...

Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks

The third State of Software Security SOSS report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure. Application testing firm Veracode, which compiled the report, found that 58% of almost 5,000 applications failing a security audit on the first pass – about th...

Making An Application Security Program Succeed

After winning the attention, and hopefully the backing of executives, as we covered in The Challenge of Starting an Application Security Program, it becomes much more straightforward to win the funding needed for the right tools, services, and training needed for secure application development. N...

The Challenge of Starting an Application Security Program

Since organizations started opening their internal applications to the Web, a little more than a decade ago, it became clear that the security of those connected applications would be more complex – and critical to get right – than before. Unfortunately, through complacency, perhaps a feeling tha...

Jeremiah Grossman on Web App Security, Secure Development and When Web Security Will Improve

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman, CTO and founder of WhiteHat Security, about the company’s new Website Vulnerability Statistics report, why SQL injection is still such a problem and when Web application security may improve. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...