Automatic API Attack Tool - Customizable API Attack Tool Takes An API Specification As An Input, Generates And Runs Attacks That Are Based On It As An Output

Imperva's customizable API attack tool takes an API specification as an input, and generates and runs attacks that are based on it as an output. The tool is able to parse an API specification and create fuzzing attack scenarios based on what is defined in the API specification. Each endpoint is...

2019 Hackathon Challenges Imperva to Solve Problems Together

The smell of pizza –150 boxes to be exact – filled our global offices last week as more than 220 Impervians technical and non-technical rolled up their sleeves to participate in Imperva’s annual company-wide hackathon. As chair of the event this year, I was determined to host a hackathon that...

Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020

I don’t need a crystal ball to predict that in 2020 cybersecurity attacks will accelerate and the tactics will evolve. We’ll continue to be hounded by greater volumes of the attacks that have threatened us for years and, as businesses adopt new innovations, new vulnerabilities to threats will...

How to Protect Holiday Shoppers from Bots and Scammers

It’s the most wonderful time of year for gift card scammers. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holidays just around the corner, consumers will spend billions on gift cards for hard-to-shop-for friends, family, and colleagues. Imperva VP Tiffany Olson Kleemann was interviewed on Good Morning...

Secure Your Digital Transformation

Digital transformation DX is on the mind, IT budget sheet, and board meeting agenda for the majority of enterprise-level organizations. The term digital transformation is becoming ubiquitous, but its definition can be ambiguous. Within the context of this blog, DX refers to how organizations...

Tracking CVE-2019-11043 PHP Vulnerability – An Uncommon Chain of Events

On October 22, security researcher Omar Ganiev published a tweet regarding remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM the FastCGI Process Manager running on the Nginx server. The tweet includes a link to a GitHub repository with an explanation of the vulnerability and a PoC proof-of-concept f...

Mitigate then Investigate: Watch a Live DDoS Attack

Recently Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDOS, and our own David Elmaleh shared their knowledge about DDoS attacks and what it means to have industry-best protection capabilities including fast time to mitigation. They also offered insights into the critical investigation activities that must...

Imperva RASP Now Supports .NET Core Apps for Security by Default

We at Imperva are proud to announce that we now support the .NET Core development platform, securing apps written in .NET Core with our industry-leading RASP solution. Support for .NET Core expands our market-leading, full-stack application security solution to apps at the heart of digital...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security

Understand WAFs and cybersecurity. Recent WAF-based breaches with CapitalOne, Imperva, and Cloudflare offer essential lessons we can learn from where WAF technology is failing us and what can we do to improve our security. The post WAF-Based Attacks & The Future of Security appeared first on...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Launches its XDR Center in India and EU Reports 5G Cybersecurity Risks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new XDR Center in India that will help solve data sovereignty issues. Also, read about 5G network software use bei...

Imperva: Data Breach Caused by Amazon Cloud Misconfiguration

Imperva, the security vendor, said this week that a misconfiguration of an Amazon Web Services AWS cloud instance allowed hackers to exfiltrate information on customers using its Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF product. Formerly known as Incapsula, the Cloud WAF analyzes requests coming into...

New Research From Imperva Bot Management Tracks Gift Card Abuse

Researchers at Imperva Bot Management formerly Distil Networks have been tracking online bots that target the e-commerce gift card systems of major online retailers. The threat actors they’ve studied show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability. In a recent podcast, Imperva Bot Management’s...

Attackers Are Quick to Exploit vBulletin’s Latest 0-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Imperva’s Cloud WAF has identified instances of a new 0-day vulnerability being exploited within a matter of hours of the exploit being published. On Monday 23rd September 2019, an exploit was published for a vulnerability found within vBulletin versions 5.0.0 to 5.5.4, allowing malicious attacke...

A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running

Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive year! Along with our WAF Gateways and easy-to-deploy Cloud WAF we recently added API Security, RASP, Account Takeover Protection, Bot Management, a...

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...

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...

Imperva Firewall Breach Exposes Customer API Keys, SSL Certificates

UPDATE Imperva, the security vendor, has made a security breach public that affects customers using the Cloud Web Application Firewall WAF product. Formerly known as Incapsula, the Cloud WAF analyzes requests coming into applications, and flags or blocks suspicious and malicious activity. Users’...

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,...