Dell Data Breach: Personal Information of 49 Million Customers Compromised due to latest API Abuse

Dell recently issued a notice regarding a data breach that occurred on May 9, which has reportedly affected over 49 million customers across the globe. According to a report by BleepingComputer, Dell initiated the distribution of notifications cautioning its customers that their personally...

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...

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...

Visit Wallarm at Google Cloud Next

April 9–11, San Francisco, CA We are excited to join the community of the GCP professionals and demonstrate Wallarm web and API protection solutions custom-built for Google Cloud-powered applications. A certified GCP-partner, Wallarm delivers AI-powered security solution built to help your busine...

Weather Forecast for April — It’s Raining Security Pros

As you are planning out your spring calendar, make sure an April visit to San Francisco is on it. Anchored by RSA Conference 2018, San Francisco will become a center of US security life for a week. The week will start with some training events and, of course, BSides San Francisco. Bsides is a...

What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security

Editor's note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author's permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they're not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of...

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...

Blind SSRF exploitation

There is such a thing as SSRF. There’s lots of information about it, but here is my quick summary. Let's say you go to a website, fill out your profile, and get to the “Upload Profile Picture” step. And you have a choice: upload a file or specify a link. The post Blind SSRF exploitation appeared...

Race Condition in Web Applications

Even web application APIs can be subject to race conditions. Check out where it can happen such as the cases of HTTP pipelining, splitting HTTP and others. The post Race Condition in Web Applications appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Threat Intelligence for WAF

It’s all about security rules Stephen Hawking said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. One could say much the same of web application firewalls and WAF security rules. With web applications now one of the most attacked components of IT infrastructures, organizations have a critical...

Kafka vs RabbitMQ

An Intro to Kafka and RabbitMQ: The Masters of Messaging In the realm of messaging systems, two names stand out: Kafka and RabbitMQ. These two powerhouses have become the go-to solutions for developers and organizations looking to handle high-volume, real-time data processing and messaging. But...

Security 101 for eCommerce Businesses

Understand the risks to ecommerce businesses and how to secure your online business. Know the fact from compliance to dealing with hackers, at any level of business maturity. The post Security 101 for eCommerce Businesses appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Mt. Gox Bitcoin Heist: Takeaways from a $3.3B Crypto Exchange Breach It was all fun and games, until someone lost 850,000 BTC from a Tokyo-based exchange, MTGOX, in 2014. Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API4:2023 Unrestricted Resource Consumption

Welcome to the 5th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API4:2023 Unrestricted Resource Consumption. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...

Is Service Mesh right for your infrastructure?

Andrew Jenkins of Aspen Mesh identifies three deployment options with regards to how a Service Mesh delivers its services: As a sidecar that runs alongside your microservice container As a library that can be built into each of the microservices As an agent that sit in the container infrastructur...

What’s New in Wallarm Node 2.10

We have recently released a new version of Wallarm Node. After your next update window, you will see some new features your DevOps team is certain to like. Firstly, your monitoring and reporting got a lot livelier. Starting with this version in addition to JSON format metrics can be exported in...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 1 By Johan Nordstrom The only constant in this world is change, and these days it’s coming quicker and faster than ever before, as is evident in the explosive market for cloud services. A recent research and analysis from Cisco showed that the global intern...

How Uber was hacked in 2022

What happened? The first information about the incident was issued yesterday, September 15th, 2022. We know that a hacker called “Tea Pot” successfully accessed Uber infrastructure and critical cloud services such as AWS, Slack, Google Workspace, and others. Most likely, Uber understood what had...

Recent discoveries reveal high-risk PHP vulnerabilities

Hundreds of millions of people using everyday platforms could be at risk. One of the most popular server-side web programming languages, Hypertext Preprocessor PHP was discovered to be at high risk for attacks. Patches for high-severity vulnerabilities have been released. Without a protective...

What’s New in Wallarm

New features in Wallarm Cloud Dashboard At Wallarm, we subscribe to the continuous delivery methodology. Some of you may have already seen these features as we have been releasing them over the past weeks. For those of you who haven’t, this post will point out all the new shiny improvements for...

Is Docker Swarm going to change how we do microservices APIs?

During the DockerCon a couple of weeks ago the new native swarm functionality was one of the highlighted themes. What is a swarm? A swarm is a cluster of Docker engines, or nodes, which acts as an orchestrator, monitor and ingress load balancer for all the services deployed on swarm. The Docker...

Libdetection: Introducing New Generation of Attacks Detection

In the latest version of Wallarm Node, we integrated a new attack detection engine that will work with a combination of current detects. Libdetection is a unique open-source project https://github.com/wallarm/libdetection, that provides a signature-free payloads detection by implementing a syntax...

Perimeter Breaches: The attack front you’re losing

Everything is data. Defining your perimeter is nearly impossible, which makes securing it even more tricky. Old strategies are obsolete. How do we navigate and protect our boundaries in an increasingly digital world? The post Perimeter Breaches: The attack front you're losing appeared first on...

Analyzing DeepSeek’s System Prompt: Jailbreaking Generative AI

DeepSeek, a disruptive new AI model from China, has shaken the market, sparking both excitement and controversy. While it has gained attention for its capabilities, it also raises pressing security concerns. Allegations have surfaced about its training data, with claims that it may have leveraged...

OWASP Mobile Top 10

Unraveling the Key Components of the Renowned OWASP Mobile Top 10 Index The altruistic initiative, Open Network Application Defense Plan ONADP, spearheads a cluster of operations in its mission to enhance the level of software protection. A cardinal tool emerging from their efforts, The OWASP...

How Can Deliberately Flawed APIs Help In Mastering API Security?

In our recent webinar recent webinar title 'A CISO’s Checklist for Securing APIs and Applications', we delved into the concept of creating an API security playground tailored for both developer and security teams. The core idea revolves around utilizing intentionally vulnerable APIs as training...

Zero-Day Marketplace Explained: How Zerodium, BugTraq, and Fear contributed to the Rise of the Zero-Day Vulnerability Black Market

Whenever a company is notified about or discovers a critical flaw in their system/application that has the potential to be exploited by malicious elements, it’s termed a vulnerability. However, every time a flaw being actively exploited is discovered, code red is punched as the organization’s IT...

How to Manage Your Security Risks

Deciphering the Criticality of Safeguarding Against Security Threats As digital natives, we are well aware that the urgency and importance of ensuring digital safety can't be minimized. The escalating vector of sophisticated digital attacks has brandished a double-edged sword, threatening both...

WAF JSON decoding capability required to protect against API threats like CVE-2020-13942 Apache Unomi RCE

New critical Apache Unomi exploit was released yesterday. As an official press release says: "Apache Unomi is the industrys first reference implementation of the upcoming OASIS CDP specification established by the OASIS CXS Technical Committee, which sets standards as a core technology for enabli...

Application security through the lens of Cyberwar – One on One with Chris Kubecka

Last month, Wallarm Cybersecurity Strategist Kavya Pearlman interviewed cyberwar fare expert Chris Kubecka via a webinar session that was well attended and very timely discussion. If you missed the webinar, worry not! Here is a quick recap of the discussion around “Application Security in the age...

Getting ready for May 25th

How Wallarm helps with GDPR On May 25, 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes enforceable. Both European and international companies are reviewing their existing data processing practices to ensure their are in compliance with the new standard, as the proposed non-GDPR complianc...

Putting Wallarm Management Console on a Fast Track

With this update we significantly reduced Elasticsearch load and thereby improved the responsiveness of the user interface with an attack showing up within seconds of being detected. Our new user-friendly interface has a lag time of no more than 5 seconds. The post Putting Wallarm Management...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Safari in Client-Side Attacks

I’ve previously published an article about using Safari to compromise a computer file system. Unfortunately, there are more issues with Safari as we are now finding out. In this post, we will take a look at the possibility of a XSS exploit and a cookie compromise stemming from “unusual” Safari...

How to Mitigate the Latest API Vulnerability in FortiManager

Overview of the FortiManager API Vulnerability Recently, a critical API vulnerability in FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 was disclosed. Certain threat actors exploited it in the wild to steal sensitive information containing configurations, IP addresses, and credentials used by managed devices. In...

avro vs protobuf

A Kickoff Discussion on Core Aspects of Avro & Protobuf When deliberating on the subject of data structure encoding, a tandem of tools frequently emerges in technical discussions: Avro and Protobuf. Originating from a vision of precise data compression, the distinguishable features and applicatio...

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 ...

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...

Two critical security flaws found in Nginx-Ingress controller

Ingress controllers allow users to configure an HTTP load balancer for applications running on Kubernetes. It’s needed to serve those applications to clients outside of the Kubernetes Cluster. It’s also configured with Kubernetes API to deploy objects called Ingress Resources The NGINX Ingress...

Understanding Your Monthly Security Reports

When we first starting a conversation with our prospects, we are frequently asked, “Just how will I know that Wallarm is working?” To help answer that, let’s take a look at the report we sent to one of our customers last week to understand what kind of threats Wallarm defends agains. Wallarm...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Vulnerabilities in BIG-IP Next Central Manager allows control of managed devices

Introduction In May 2024, new vulnerabilities have been identified in BIG-IP Next Central Manager, raising considerable security concerns. This discovery follows closely on the heels of a critical vulnerability revealed in April within Palo Alto's firewalls with enabled GlobalProtect feature, whi...

Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

Lessons Learned from the Equifax Disaster

143 million U.S. consumers, Equifax.com users who may have been affected by the the worst data breach in history are receiving all sorts of advice including a free TrustedID product license from Equifax. But despite numerous public reports about the incident, there are still many important...

Kong and Wallarm Partner Up to Boost Microservices API Security

Wallarm has partnered with Mashape to provide the microservices community with API security. Mashape enterprise customers who use Kong API gateway can now quickly add API security protection without change in Kong user’s deployment. Read more about Kong and Wallarm partnership in this blog. Today...

Deep Dive into the Latest API Security Vulnerabilities in Envoy

Envoy has carved out a critical role in cloud-native computing, becoming increasingly prevalent as the default ingress controller for Kubernetes. This high-performance proxy, developed by Lyft and now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s arsenal, is integral for companies scaling up...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization

Welcome to the 2nd post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...

Wallarm extends AWS API security with the official Terraform module

Wallarm API Security solution is now available in AWS as an official Terraform module, with a full feature set including autoscaling groups, API Gateway connector, mirroring, and agentless out-of-band deployments. To address modern cloud-native threats, API security vendor Wallarm released extend...

Stopping Credential Stuffing Attacks: We Need to Do Better

Do you know what 23andMe, Jason's Deli, North Face, and Hot Topic have in common? They've all been breached by successful credential stuffing attacks in the last year! An attack type that has gained prominence in recent years is credential stuffing. In this blog, we will explore what credential...

Fetching Full-Text Alert Data with the Wallarm API

A lot of information about detected malicious requests is already available in the Wallarm console UI. However, the search functionality of the Wallarm UI does not provide full visibility into every type of potential attack or full details of a particular alert. If this level of visibility is...

What You Should Know About Side-Channel Attacks, Like Meltdown

“The light is on in their window. They must be home.” This is a classic example of a side information channel. They didn’t TELL you they were home. But the side effect of them being home in the evening is the light in the window — which is how you’re pretty sure they are home even though this...