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,...

Stronger Together, Red Hat 3scale Integration

Most enterprises today rely on customers accessing their applications to conduct daily business. These enterprises know by now that application programming interfaces APIs are becoming more common than ever before to enable communication between applications and end users. Even though they are...

Imperva SecureSphere PWS Command Injection (CVE-2018-16660)

A command injection vulnerability exists in Imperva SecureSphere gateway. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands in the effected system...

Imperva Blocks Our Largest DDoS L7/Brute Force Attack Ever (Peaking at 292,000 RPS)

Imagine you’re a developer building a new web application. You’ve followed all of the security best practices, hired a reputable penetration testing company before launch, and gone through extensive bug fixing to remove any vulnerabilities. However, would you be confident that your application...

A New Chapter in Bot Management Begins Today [Video]

I am excited to share that we have closed the acquisition of Distil Networks, the pioneer and leader in Bot Management. Over the past few weeks, we have been welcoming Distil’s employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solutio...

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...

UK’s Largest Mobile Carrier Relies on AWS and Imperva FlexProtect for Web Delivery and 360-Degree Application Protection

In today’s highly-competitive telecommunications market, the website is integral to successful and fast customer service. Downtime due to intrusion, data breach, or DDoS attack is intolerable. It’s why ten of the largest global telecommunications providers have chosen Imperva, including BT mobile...

Every Second Counts When You’re Under Attack — Imperva Provides 3 Second DDoS Mitigation, Stops Account Takeovers & Protects your APIs

Let’s be blunt: cybersecurity is a never-ending arms race between bad actors and IT and security teams. Lately, attackers have surged. Armed with powerful, inexpensive hacking tools and deep knowledge gleaned from successful breaches, attackers are organizing sprawling botnets, probing soft targe...

SQL Injection Attacks: So Old, but Still So Relevant. Here’s Why (Charts)

We’re living in the Golden Age of data. Some companies analyze it to better themselves, others trade it for profit, none give it up freely due to its value — for their business, and for criminals, as well. SQL Structured Query Language is an extremely popular way to communicate with databases...

Web Security Leader Rapidly Expands by Partnering with AWS and Imperva

Companies try to plan and pace their growth. Those plans go out the window when a merger or acquisition happens, as it did to DigiCert Inc. DigiCert, based in Lehi, Utah, had long been a leading Certificate Authority CA, providing electronic documents that verify and authenticate the identities o...

Build Bikes and Go Fast: Why Building Bikes is Critical to Imperva’s Success

In May 2019, seventy members of Imperva’s global leadership team gathered in one location to share insights, to develop and commit to our future strategy, and to build bikes. That’s right, to build bikes. Of course, that bit about developing and committing to our future strategy is undeniably...

5 Cybersecurity Tools Every Business Needs to Know

Cybersecurity experts all echo the same thing – cyber attacks are going to get more rampant, and they will continue to pose severe threats against all technology users. Businesses, in particular, have become prime targets for cybercriminals due to the nature of data and information they process a...

WAFW00F v1.0.0 - Detect All The Web Application Firewall!

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall WAF products. How does it work? To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following: Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions. If that is not successful, it sends a number of potentially...

Botnet-led DDoS Attacks Are Hitting Record Intensities. Imperva is Mitigating All of Them.

DDoS attacks are usually ranked by the amount of bandwidth involved, such as the 2018 GitHub attack that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and is often cited as the largest DDoS attack ever. From Imperva’s long history of successfully mitigating DDoS attacks, we know that the TRUE measure of...

CVE-2018-16660

A command injection vulnerability in PWS in Imperva SecureSphere 13.0.0.10 and 13.1.0.10 Gateway allows an attacker with authenticated access to execute arbitrary OS commands on a vulnerable installation...

CVE-2018-16660

A command injection vulnerability in PWS in Imperva SecureSphere 13.0.0.10 and 13.1.0.10 Gateway allows an attacker with authenticated access to execute arbitrary OS commands on a vulnerable installation...

Command injection

A command injection vulnerability in PWS in Imperva SecureSphere 13.0.0.10 and 13.1.0.10 Gateway allows an attacker with authenticated access to execute arbitrary OS commands on a vulnerable installation...

CVE-2018-16660

A command injection vulnerability in PWS in Imperva SecureSphere 13.0.0.10 and 13.1.0.10 Gateway allows an attacker with authenticated access to execute arbitrary OS commands on a vulnerable installation...

CVE-2018-16660

CVE-2018-16660 affects Imperva SecureSphere Gateway PWS in versions 13.0.0.10 and 13.1.0.10. The vulnerability is a command injection that, when an attacker has authenticated access, can cause arbitrary OS commands to be executed on the vulnerable installation. CVSS metrics from NVD indicate a hi...

Making Our Security Portfolio Simpler — and Better

Since its inception in 2009, Incapsula has been a proud part of Imperva, the analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader. However, cybersecurity needs are evolving, and so are we. On April 7th, we will officially retire Incapsula.com. All of the great Incapsula web site content that wasn’t already...