What you need to know about how cryptography impacts your security strategy

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Taurus SA Co-founder...

Top 5 DevOps Resource Center Articles of 2021

We look back on the 5 most popular DevOps Resource Center articles in 2021 to help you build at your best in 2022...

Security Bulletin: Is Blueworks Live affected by CVE-2021-44228 (Log4j Vulnerability)?

Summary Is Blueworks Live affected by CVE-2021-44228 Log4j Vulnerability? Vulnerability Details Please refer to the Flash Alert published here: Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this. Off Related...

KLA12396 RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Developer Tools

Remote code execution vulnerability was found in Microsoft Developer Tools. Malicious users can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Original advisories CVE-2021-44228 Exploitation Public exploits exist for this vulnerability. Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

log4j-CVE-2021-44228 On December 5, 2021, Apache identified a...

Announcing Property Manager Extensions for the Integrated Development Environment

We’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Property Manager extension to Visual Studio Code and Eclipse. With the new Property Manager extension, you can edit and validate Property Manager API PAPI JSON rule trees right from your integrated development environment IDE. It allows you to make a...

Over a Dozen Malicious NPM Packages Caught Hijacking Discord Servers

At least 17 malware-laced packages have been discovered on the NPM package Registry, adding to a recent barrage of malicious software hosted and delivered through open-source software repositories such as PyPi and RubyGems. DevOps firm JFrog said the libraries, now taken down, were designed to gr...

Kubernetes Guardrails: Bringing DevOps and Security Together on Cloud

Cloud and container technologies are being increasingly embraced by organizations around the globe because of the efficiency, superior visibility, and control they provide to DevOps and IT teams. While DevOps teams see the benefits of cloud and container solutions, these tools create a learning...

QSC Day 2 Recap: Innovation Makes for Better Defense, Improves Resilience

If 2020 was the year of disruption, then 2021 was characterized by high-profile—and low-profile—cyberattacks against the likes of JBS Supply, Colonial Pipeline, and Kaseya. Three years that underscored the need for organizations not only to defend themselves but to become resilient to weather and...

Application Security 101

Everything DevOps teams need to know about web application security risks and best practices...

Best practices in WAF gateways to meet the demands of digital transformation

Every day, digital transformation is changing every organization’s threat landscape. As a result, they are facing a dilemma about where and how to deploy their application security solution. One of the most common approaches that organizations take is to deploy a reverse proxy security solution i...

Guide: How to Hack API in 60 minutes or API Threats Simulation with Open-Source Tools

What is API? API is the abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, which is a product middle person that permits two applications to converse with one another. Useful link: Api security tutorial for beginners and professionals What Is API Testing: Benefits, Types, How To Start ‍OpenAPI...

GitHub Revoked Insecure SSH Keys Generated by a Popular git Client

Code hosting platform GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys that were generated via the GitKraken git GUI client due to a vulnerability in a third-party library that increased the likelihood of duplicated SSH keys. As an added precautionary measure, the Microsoft-owned company also said...

Serverless protection for execution environments made easy

Serverless computing is transforming the way we build, ship, automate, and scale applications. With no infrastructure to manage, organizations can move from ideation to market faster, with virtually no operational overhead. Consequently, these enterprises can now focus on just the code that serve...

How to help your DevOps teams become integral to your cybersecurity strategy

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? It’s a classic paradox, but anyone who has witnessed the relationship between SecOps and DevOps teams in any enterprise may have an inkling of how that might unfold. There is nothing new about the contentious relationship between...

Here's a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances

The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months. Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often...

To the Left: Your Guide to Infrastructure as Code for Shifting Left

It's the cloud's world now, and we're all just living in it. The mass migration of organizational infrastructure to the cloud isn't slowing down any time soon — and really, why would it? Cloud computing has allowed developers to move at vastly greater speeds than ever before. And this in turn let...

How to mitigate security vulnerabilities automatically with RASP

In a world where DevOps is oiling the wheels of accelerated software development, it’s hardly surprising that automation, code re-use and third-party libraries are integral parts of our high-speed app development cycle. But what happens when the pace of development outstrips security? Or when the...

Reduce Risk with an Open Source Code Scanner

Explore the three risks that open source code scanning can mitigate, allowing SecOps and DevOps teams to bridge the gap for more secure application building...

Travis CI Flaw Exposes Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects

Continuous integration vendor Travis CI has patched a serious security flaw that exposed API keys, access tokens, and credentials, potentially putting organizations that use public source code repositories at risk of further attacks. The issue — tracked as CVE-2021-41077 — concerns unauthorized...