Application Security in 2022: Where Are We Now?

It’s always a good thing to take a step back every once in a while to take the lay of the land. Like you, we are always working at a breakneck pace to help secure the web applications being built today and ready ourselves to secure the innovations of the future. When Forrester put out The State o...

tCell by Rapid7 Supports the Newly Released .NET 6.0

We’re excited to share that we've coordinated our recent .NET and .NET Core agent releases with the brand new .NET 6.0 release from Microsoft. What is tCell? Since the founding of tCell by Rapid7, our web application and API protection solution, we’ve prided ourselves on providing both breadth an...

Software composition analysis 101

Open source is everywhere. Learn how software composition analysis can automate open source management to secure your applications...

4 Free Online Cyber Security Testing Tools For 2021

Set of must-have online security tools that we believe may make a real difference to your cybersecurity program and improve your 2021 budget planning. In September, Gartner published a list of "Top 9 Security and Risk Trends for 2020" putting a bold emphasis on the growing complexity and size of...

Hello open source security! Managing risk with software composition analysis

When first learning to code many people start with a rudimentary “Hello World” program. Building the program teaches developers the basics of a language as they write the code required to display “Hello World” on a screen. As developers get more skilled, the complexity of the programs they build...

WhiteSource Software Application Vulnerability Management Injection Vulnerability

WhiteSource Software Application Vulnerability Management AVM is a suite of application vulnerability management platforms from WhiteSource Software. The platform is mainly used to view and synchronize the review of its static application security test results SAST, dynamic application security...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 5.3.0

My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. A while ago, a new version - OWASP Dependency-Check 5.3.0 was released. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release that includes a lot of bug fix...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 5.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. Some days back, a new version was released. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 5.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. About 18 hours ago, a new version was released. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP...

DependencyCheck v3.3.1 - A Software Composition Analysis Utility That Detects Publicly Disclosed Vulnerabilities In Application Dependencies

Dependency-Check is a Software Composition Analysis SCA tool that attempts to detect publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within a project's dependencies. It does this by determining if there is a Common Platform Enumeration CPE identifier for a given dependency. If found, it will generat...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.3.0, which includes a lot of bug...

Dependency-Track - An Intelligent Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Platform That Allows Organizations To Identify And Reduce Risk From The Use Of Third-Party And Open Source Components

Modern applications leverage the availability of existing components for use as building blocks in application development. By using existing components, organizations can dramatically decrease time-to-market. Reusing existing components however, comes at a cost. Organizations that build on top o...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.2! Most importantly NVD urls were...

Intelligent Software Composition Analysis Platform: Dependency-Track

Modern applications leverage the availability of existing components for use as building blocks in application development. By using existing components, organizations can dramatically decrease time-to-market. Reusing existing components however, comes at a cost. Organizations that build on top o...

OWASP DependencyCheck - A Software Composition Analysis Utility That Detects Publicly Disclosed Vulnerabilities In Application Dependencies

Dependency-Check is a utility that attempts to detect publicly disclosed vulnerabilities contained within project dependencies. It does this by determining if there is a Common Platform Enumeration CPE identifier for a given dependency. If found, it will generate a report linking to the associate...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0! This release comes with...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0! This release comes with Java 9...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.1!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.1! This release contains a few...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0! What I like about this release...

Philips Xper-IM Connect Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Independent researchers Mike Ahmadi of Synopsys and Billy Rios of Whitescope LLC, in collaboration with Philips, have identified numerous vulnerabilities with an automated software composition analysis tool in the Philips Xper-IM Connect system running on Windows XP. Philips reports that...