Server-Side Template Injection Vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server (CVE-2023-22527)

Introduction On January 16 2024, Atlassian issued a ​​significant alert on a critical Server-Side Template Injection SSTI vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, identified as CVE-2023-22527. This issue found in older versions, poses a serious risk as it allows attackers without any...

Integrating API Security and WAF into K8s Kong API Gateway

Article by Jiju Jacob, Director of Engineering at Revenera This is an update of Mr. Jacobs’ 05/23 post in his Medium blog. He is a Director of Engineering at Revenera. Revenera, born as InstallShield and now a Flexera company, helps software and technology companies use open source solutions more...

Wallarm team is growing!

Wallarm’s unique approach provides actionable insight that identifies and protects against real attacks and vulnerabilities. I’m excited to be part of the team that automates this for modern services and cloud-based applications. The post Wallarm team is growing! appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Wallarm Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for API Security

I am thrilled to share that Wallarm, has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar for API Security! We would like to share insights from the recent GigaOm 2023 API Security Radar report, particularly shining a spotlight on our Advanced API Security solution. The growing importance of APIs and API...

Act Now to Prepare for New NCUA Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements

We recently discussed the new SEC rule requiring all registered companies to report material cyber incidents within four 4 days. Now the National Credit Union Administration NCUA1 has updated their Cyber Incident Notification Rule, requiring all federally insured Credit Unions to notify the NCUA ...

Is your org structure threatening your IT security infrastructure?

5 Tips to Solve API Security Issues in Any IT Security Infrastructure Start listening. Integrating isn’t enough if your teams aren’t talking. In a hyper-competitive environment, keeping up with customer usability demands often means adopting a hyper-agile development process. It’s a dangerous...

Securing Cloud-Native Applications

A conversation with Randy Bias Last week we were able to sit down with Randy Bias — a cloud pioneer and a technology visionary who currently oversees Juniper Networks cloud strategy. We have asked Randy to share his thoughts on the security of private and public clouds and specifically cloud-nati...

Protobuf vs JSON

A Beginners Guide to Understanding Protobuf & JSON When you dive into the sphere of data serialization, you're likely to encounter two dominant players - Protobuf, the colloquial term for Protocol Buffers, and JSON, standing for JavaScript Object Notation. Both of these formats carry distinctive...

Grammarly fixed XSS vulnerability that bypasses AWS WAF

Grammarly is the unicorn company that announced its open bug bounty program last September. Since that time, many security researchers posted their submissions and got paid well. Some of Grammarlys issues are also useful for others. Like the recent XSS, that also bypasses an AWS WAF. The recent X...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

Wallarm goes to Singapore

By Leonid iaitskyi. — Own work., CC BY-SA 3.0, What: Hack In The Box GSEC SINGAPORE 2017 When: August 21st — 25th 2017 Where: InterContinental Singapore Why go: REASON 1: Meet Wallam and find out how to extend your security team with AI REASON 2: Go to the talk by Ivan Novikov and find what the...

How Security Edge Revolutionizes API Security

Wallarm’s Security Edge is setting a new standard in API security—far beyond the reach of traditional Content Delivery Networks CDNs. Let’s get it straight: Security Edge is not just a new addition to the API security market; it’s a disruption. Designed to deliver fast, effective, and advanced AP...

What You Need To Know About MOVEit

The MOVEit Vulnerabilities and Latest Exploits. Impact On Governmental Agencies And Large Organizations Governmental agencies and large organizations around the world are being hit by ransomware attacks exploiting several vulnerabilities in MOVEit, a widely used file transfer solution. The...

Welcome, Brooke Motta!

By Ivan Novikov I am excited to announce a great addition to our Go-To-Market team. Brooke Motta has joined Wallarm as Vice President of Sales. Brooke brings 15 years of Cyber Security Sales Experience to the team. She has experience selling up and down the organization from an individual securit...

“Fire Danger Rating” on “High” in Security Climate

November was a scary month in California. After four years of drought, the forests and towns in the northern part of the state exploded into wildfires, displacing thousands of residents and destroying millions of dollars of property. The foul air in San Francisco and the surrounding areas was a...

Tools to address OWASP Top 10 Risks

In a recent article published by Security Boulevard. we talked about OWASP Top 10 Risk classification and overlap. In this post, we will look into the tools that may help address these risks. To understand what’s possible to cover with which protection mechanisms we can now color-code our OWASP...

340 weak JWT secrets you should check in your code

JSON Web Token JWT is the data format with bill-in signature and encryption mechanisms that are often used by modern web applications to store user sessions and application context, including authentication by SSO and meta-data. Usually, you can find JWT tokens in an Authentication Bearer HTTP...

Yii2 Gii Remote Code Execution

This article is written specifically for web developers who use a module. We will tell you how we got access to sensitive data on a staging server through Yii2 Gii Remote Code: First to the testing environment, and then to the production. Spoiler: We have notified the module developer about the...

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and…

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and Serverless Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manag...

Unpacking the Zimbra Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2023-37580)

Insights and Protections On November 16, 2023, a significant security concern was published by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG. They revealed an alarming vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration, a widely-used email hosting tool for organizations. This vulnerability, designated with an identifier...

Wallarm at Black Hat USA 2022

Black Hat USA is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Wallarm will be on hand for the festivities. If you’re headed to Vegas this year, we invite you to meet our crew and talk about API security. Tuesday 08/09 – Pre-Event Evening Party Join us on Tuesday 08/09 evening at the Emerging Technology...

Happy graduation, Envoy!

Envoy, the new darling of the DevOps community, performs the role of a service and edge proxy. With advanced features such as timeouts, rate limiting, circuit breaking, load balancing, retries, stats, logging, and distributed tracing are required to handle network failures in a fault tolerant and...

Quick tip: Watch out — restriction by location can be circumvented.

by @Andrey Danau, Wallarm Research If you are like many app developers, you may be using nginx or apache proxy or a web server on the front end of your application. If you are on a tight schedule, it is tempting to tie authorization and data controls simply to the locations defined in the front...

What The Actual WAF!?

InfoSec Family, we need to talk!! Every so often, there is a technological shift in the information security industry. Sometimes it is due to new cyberattack discovery, aka a Zero-day. Many times, the catalyst is legacy technology. When a legacy technology no longer adequately responds to the...

How to use a single download to remotely steal proprietary files from MacOS

by Anton Lopanitsyn Wallarm Research Team Imaging a scary scenario: you open a simple html document, and after a little while, your proprietary files unbeknownst to you find their way to somebody else’s hard drive… Documents, source code, SSH keys, passwords…All the files you, the authorized user...

Wallarm joins CNCF to promote Kubernetes security

Wallarm has recently joined the Linux Foundation and its sister organization, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Wallarm will be contributing its AI/ML security expertise within the LF and CNCF communities to support the sustainability and adoption of open source technologies. Wallarm and its...

API Abuse – Lessons from the Duolingo Data Scraping Attack

It’s been reported that 2.6 million user records sourced from the Duolingo app are for sale. The attacker apparently obtained them from an open API provided by the company. There’s a more technical explanation available here. While we talk a lot about the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Top-10 a...

What ChatGPT know about API Security?

There is no doubt that you heard about and seen the latest OpenAIs brilliant called ChatGPT. It can write poems, speak many languages, answer questions, play chess, make code and impress everyone. In this post, we show a few more of how this AI model is good in cybersecurity, in particular in API...

OWASP API Top 10 Projects: Highlights and Overview

In addition to the same risks that web applications are exposed to, APIs are faced with a number of unique security risks and vulnerabilities. This blogs provides an overview of the new OWASP API Top 10 risk project. The post OWASP API Top 10 Projects: Highlights and Overview appeared first on...

6 Lessons Security Leaders Must Learn About AI and APIs

Most organizations treating AI security as a model problem are defending the wrong layer. Security teams filter prompts, patch jailbreaks, and tune model behavior, which is all necessary work, while the actual attack surface sits largely unexamined underneath. That surface is the API layer: the...

The Other Crowdstrike Outage

On July 19, 2024, a flawed update in CrowdStrike Falcon's channel file 291 led to a logic error that caused Windows systems to crash, resulting in widespread BSOD Blue Screen of Death incidents. The impact was severe, disrupting critical infrastructure globally, from grounded flights to halted...

What Is Multi-Homing?

Decoding the Term: Deciphering the Significance of Multi-Homing? The term multi-homing, in the realm of computer networking, finds itself surrounded by considerable confusion owing to its multifaceted technical nuances. Nevertheless, it stands as a pillar of network security and dependability...

What Is Microservices Architecture

Mastering the Essential Elements of Services-Focused Programming The methodology of programming using tiny, interdependent software units, often simplified to 'Microservices', has seen a marked uptick in usage in recent times. This distinct architectural paradigm shapes an application as a group ...

What is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform CNAPP ?

Revealing the Secrets of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP In the landscape of online safety, the notion of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP is something relatively unheard of, but rapidly gaining popularity. Intuitively from its name, CSASP is a system...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: Spotlight on Injection

Welcome to the 12th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it. To see previous posts you might...

4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security

DevSecOps is more than a corporate buzzword. As a combined term, DevSecOps bears out the interdependence of responsibilities that lead to security transformation from a fixed set of inflexible tools into security as a process. The post 4 DevOps Strategies to Boost Your Security appeared first on...

5 Themes for Product Security and Fostering Organizational Growth

In this article we would like to review what Raj Umadas, Product Security Manager at Compass, has shared during our recent webinar highlighting recurring themes that have led to impactful collaborations and organizational risk reduction. Product security ProdSec is crucial in the process of growi...

Cache poisoning and other dirty tricks

by @bo0om, Wallarm Research Caching is a great technology practice. It makes life better for everybody — clients get the data faster, servers expend fewer resources and so on. There is even a whole CDN industry that was built to deliver caching as a service. There are many examples of caching...

Unlocking Seamless API Security: Revenera’s Journey with Wallarm

In today's digital landscape, ensuring the security of web applications and APIs is paramount. The journey to find the right security solution can be filled with challenges and choices. In this blog post, we'll dive into the experience of Rob Davies, VP of Engineering and Lead Architect at...

Wallarm at Black Hat USA 2023 Booth #3131

Wallarm is excited to be back at Black Hat USA this year and meet with our friends in the community wanting or perhaps needing to learn more about integrated web app and API protection. We look forward to seeing you there! Expo Hours If you’re attending in person, the Business Hall is open for tw...

Find APIs Hiding in the Shadows

What’s hiding in the shadows? It’s a well understood reality that unmanaged IT assets tend to be unmonitored IT assets, and that both introduce risk. Whether it’s a forgotten about application, or an unmanaged cloud storage volume, you can’t protect what you don’t know about. Attackers thrive on...

Neatly bypassing CSP

How to trick CSP in letting you run whatever you want By bo0om, Wallarm research Content Security Policy or CSP is a built-in browser technology which helps protect from attacks such as cross-site scripting XSS. It lists and describes paths and sources, from which the browser can safely load...

TensorFlow Dataset API for increasing training speed of neural networks

by M.Salnikov, Wallarm Research Wallarm AI engine is the heart of our security solution. Two key parameters of our AI engine efficiency are how fast neural networks can be train to reflect the updated training sets and how much compute power need to be dedicated to the training on the on-going...

The First Step-by-Step Guide for Implementing Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement…

The First Step-by-Step Guide for Implementing Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning Using TensorFlow Our team is no stranger to various flavors of AI including deep learning DL. That’s why we’ve immediately noticed when Google came out with AutoML project, designed to make AI bui...

Richard Seiersen, CISO of Twilio, Joins Wallarm Board of Advisers

We are excited to welcome Richard Seiersen to Wallarm advisory team. Richard brings tons of security experience from both start-ups and global companies and unique views on making the impact of security measurable. We have asked Richard to share some of his thoughts on what’s important in cyber...

Wallarm’s Open Source API Firewall debuts at Blackhat Asia 2024 – Introduces Key New Features & Functionalities

Wallarm introduced its ongoing Open Source API Firewall project to the world at the recently concluded Blackhat Asia 2024 conference in Singapore. The open-source API Firewall by Wallarm is a free, lightweight API Firewall designed to protect REST and GraphQL API endpoints across cloud-native...

What DevOps trends to follow (and what to ignore)

Cut through the fluff and get to the heart of which DevOps trends are worth hitching your wagon or budget to in the coming years—and which should be marked with a hazard warning. From containers to chaos engineering, here are the DevOps trends to trash and the ones you'll want to go fanboy on." T...

Wallarm joins AI Leaders @ AI Summit

Wallarm joins a select group of AI startups and prominent technologists from Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon to participate in AI Summit on September 19–20 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. AI Summit puts AI to work by delivering real value in the business. In just 3 years this...

Wallarm Joins NVIDIA AI Virtual Accelerator

We are thrilled to announce that Wallarm has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, which is designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data sciences. NVIDIA’s Inception program is a virtual accelerator that helps startups during critical stages of product...

Using WebSocket as your Real Time Protocol? Wallam got you covered.

In the beginning there was http 1 or 2, web pages were static and did not do much beyond displaying static text and images. Life has changed since… Web applications discovered that bi-directional communication between the browser and the web server is essential. Of course, http protocol, with it’...