Why Businesses Should Consider Managed Cloud-Based WAF Protection

The City of Baltimore was under cyber-attack last year, with hackers demanding $76,000 in ransom. Though the city chose not to pay the ransom, the attack still cost them nearly $18 million in damages, and then the city signed up for a $20 million cyber insurance policy. It's very evident that...

CVE-2014-2595

Barracuda Web Application Firewall WAF 7.8.1.013 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging a permanent authentication token obtained from a query string...

Imperva Received Top Scores in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls”

The web application landscape is constantly changing, and the tools needed for the best application security protection need to change with the landscape. With Imperva’s recent improvements in API Security, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud WAF, it’s easy to see why we are among the highest-scored...

WordPress Database Reset Plugin Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7047, CVE-2020-7048)

A vulnerability recently disclosed by Wordfence and published as CVE-2020-7047 and CVE-2020-7048 allows an attacker to take over vulnerable WordPress-based websites. Functionality in the WP Database Reset plugin introduced the vulnerability, which allows any unauthenticated user to reset any tabl...

Sql injection

Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF before 12-august-2010 allows SQL injection filter bypass...

F5 BIG-IP ASM Resource Management Error Vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP ASM is a Web Application Firewall WAF from F5 USA that provides secure remote access, protects email, and simplifies Web access control while enhancing network and application performance. A security vulnerability exists in the F5 BIG-IP ASM. A remote attacker could exploit the...

Vxscan

This is a Python script for a comprehensive vulnerability scanner, Vxscan. The script is designed to perform various types of scans, including: 1. Directory scanning and JavaScript leak detection 2. WAF/CDN identification 3. Port scanning 4. Fingerprinting and service identification 5. Operating...

Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month with These Tips From a Survey of 1,200 Security Pros

Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry meant to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. NCSAM is focused largely on consumer awareness, but for cybersecurity leaders, it is also a great opportunity ...

What The Actual WAF!?

InfoSec Family, we need to talk!! Every so often, there is a technological shift in the information security industry. Sometimes it is due to new cyberattack discovery, aka a Zero-day. Many times, the catalyst is legacy technology. When a legacy technology no longer adequately responds to the...

CVE-2019-16276

It was discovered that net/http through net/textproto in golang does not correctly interpret HTTP requests where an HTTP header contains spaces before the colon. This could be abused by an attacker to smuggle HTTP requests when a proxy or a firewall is placed behind a server implemented in Go or ...

F5 BIG-IP ASM Information Disclosure Vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP ASM is a Web Application Firewall WAF from F5 USA that provides secure remote access, protects email, and simplifies Web access control while enhancing network and application performance. A security vulnerability exists in the F5 BIG-IP ASM. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability ...

Vxscan

This is a Python script called Vxscan, which is a comprehensive scanning tool. It is primarily used for sensitive file detection, WAF/CDN identification, port scanning, fingerprint/service identification, operating system identification, weak password detection, POC scanning, and SQL injection. T...

APIs Ease Customer Interaction — and External Attacks. Here’s how to Protect Them.

To deliver seamless service experiences to our customers, businesses now rely heavily on application programming interfaces APIs. These are a non-negotiable aspect of the way we streamline the interactions and conversations we have with our customers, both internal and external. APIs are now so...

Imperva Breach Exposes WAF Customers' Data, Including SSL Certs, API Keys

Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today. The security breach particularly affects...

Cybersecurity Firm Imperva Discloses Breach

Imperva, a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores,...

Let Experts Do Their Job – Managed WAF by Indusface

WAF Web Application Firewall has been the first line of defence when it comes to application security for a while now. Many organizations have adopted WAF in one form or the other and most cases, compliance has been the driver for adoption. But unfortunately, when it comes to the efficacy of WAF ...

Top 10 Practices for Securing Cloud Workloads

Public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficienc...

What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack

On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown "zero-day" flaw, or an "insider" attack in which the accus...

AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works

Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148. Most of...

Personalized Customer Support that Garners a Personalized Thank You

In my two-plus years as a Technical Support Engineer at Imperva, I’ve handled a wide variety of customer cases. And I’ve had the satisfaction of helping resolve them quickly and successfully. But never before have I received a handwritten thank you note from an effusive customer. Let me start at...