Secure Coding for Web Applications: Frameworks, Challenges, and the Role of LLMs

Secure coding is a critical yet often overlooked practice in software development. Despite extensive awareness efforts, real-world adoption remains inconsistent due to organizational, educational, and technical barriers. This paper provides a comprehensive review of secure coding practices across...

Cyber Security of Mega Events: a Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- a 45 Days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls

Mega events such as the Olympics, World Cup tournaments, G-20 Summit, religious events such as MahaKumbh are increasingly digitalized. From event ticketing, vendor booth or lodging reservations, sanitation, event scheduling, customer service, crime reporting, media streaming and messaging on...

ARPaCCino: an Agentic-RAG for Policy As Code Compliance

Policy as Code PaC is a paradigm that encodes security and compliance policies into machine-readable formats, enabling automated enforcement in Infrastructure as Code IaC environments. However, its adoption is hindered by the complexity of policy languages and the risk of misconfigurations. In th...

Towards Provable (In)Secure Model Weight Release Schemes

Recent secure weight release schemes claim to enable open-source model distribution while protecting model ownership and preventing misuse. However, these approaches lack rigorous security foundations and provide only informal security guarantees. Inspired by established works in cryptography, we...

Exploring Traffic Simulation and Cybersecurity Strategies Using Large Language Models

Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks due to their complex, interconnected nature. Ensuring the cybersecurity of these systems is paramount to maintaining road safety and minimizing traffic disruptions. This study presents a novel...

How to Build a Lean Security Model: 5 Lessons from River Island

In today’s security landscape, budgets are tight, attack surfaces are sprawling, and new threats emerge daily. Maintaining a strong security posture under these circumstances without a large team or budget can be a real challenge. Yet lean security models are not only possible - they can be highl...

Penetration Testing for System Security: Methods and Practical Approaches

Penetration testing refers to the process of simulating hacker attacks to evaluate the security of information systems . This study aims not only to clarify the theoretical foundations of penetration testing but also to explain and demonstrate the complete testing process, including how network...

Exemplifying Emerging Phishing: QR-Based Browser-In-The-Browser (BiTB) Attack

Lately, cybercriminals constantly formulate productive approaches to exploit individuals. This article exemplifies an innovative attack, namely QR-based Browser-in-The-Browser BiTB, using proficiencies of Large Language Model LLM i.e. Google Gemini. The presented attack is a fusion of two emergin...

Modeling Interdependent Privacy Threats

The rise of online social networks, user-gene-rated content, and third-party apps made data sharing an inevitable trend, driven by both user behavior and the commercial value of personal information. As service providers amass vast amounts of data, safeguarding individual privacy has become...

New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents

We are releasing a taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents to help security professionals and machine learning engineers think through how AI systems can fail and design them with safety and security in mind. The taxonomy continues Microsoft AI Red Team's work to lead the creation of systematizati...

Breaking the Prompt Wall (I): a Real-World Case Study of Attacking ChatGPT Via Lightweight Prompt Injection

Whitepaper called Breaking The Prompt Wall I: A Real-World Case Study Of Attacking ChatGPT Via Lightweight Prompt Injection...

USDA Releases Success Story Detailing the Implementation of Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA released Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication MFA Success Story: USDA’s FIDO Implementation. This report details how USDA successfully implemented phishing-resistant authenticatio...

CVE-2024-9850 SVG Case Study <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload

The SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, t...

CVE-2024-9850 SVG Case Study <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload

The SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, t...

CVE-2024-9850: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, t...

WordPress Plugin SVG Case Study: Cross-Site Script Vulnerabilities

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation, a blogging platform developed in the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in WordPress...

WordPress SVG Case Study plugin <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

Authenticated Author+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability discovered by Francesco Carlucci in WordPress Plugin SVG Case Study versions = 1.0...

WordPress SVG Case Study Plugin <= 1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software SVG Case Study Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.0 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2024-9850 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 5.9 Developer Claim ownership PSID 170c145ba154 Credits Francesco Carlucci Required...

PT-2024-39887 · WordPress · Svg Case Study

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0 Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated...

TikTok Pixel Privacy Nightmare: A New Case Study

Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the platform to plan their vacations. But one online travel marketplace targeting young holidaymakers wit...