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...

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...

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...

Exploring de-serialization issues in Ruby projects.

Ruby on Rails is a popular application platform that uses cookies to identify application sessions. The cookie consists of two parts: cookie-value and signature. Whenever Rails gets a cookie, it verifies that the cookie has not been tampered with by verifying that the hash/signature of the...

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’...

Private APIs at Risk: Q1-2023 API ThreatStats™ Report

According to a Mar-2022 API survey by Gartner, 98% of organizations use or are planning to use internal APIs – up from 88% in 2019. And 90% of organizations use or are planning to use private APIs provided by partners – up from 68% in 2019. Obviously, there’s a big blind spot in your API security...

Wallarm API Firewall outperforms Nginx in a production environment

Wallarm API Firewall is a free light-weighted API Firewall that protects your API endpoints in cloud-native environments with API schema validation. Wallarm API Firewall relies on a positive security model allowing calls that match a predefined API specification, while rejecting everything else...

Securing REST with free API Firewall. How-to guide

In our modern world, web applications are becoming ever more important. Bad actors know this and they target them more frequently than ever before. This is not likely to stop any time soon as the number of web applications the world needs will only go up with its reliance on technology. To fully...

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...

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...

Introducing Proactive API Leak Management

Read the press release announcing the early release of Wallarm API Leak Management The recent surge in hacks involving leaked API Keys and other API secrets such as credentials, passwords, certificates, tokens and encryption keys has put everyone involved on notice – organizations need a way to...

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...

Wallarm connector to Apigee

If you are a business undergoing a digital transformation, like Walgreens, Nike or Bechtel, heavy reliance on APIs is a key part of that digital transformation strategy. “The growing demand for information, delivered securely at any time, in any place and on any device has changed the way we thin...

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...

Riccardo Di Blasio joins Wallarm as an advisor

We are excited to welcome Riccardo Di Blasio to Wallarm advisory team. Riccardo is a well known industry executive who brings his experience running go-to-market operations and managing business worldwide for large internationals like EMC Corp and VMware, including RSA Security. Riccardo’s...

API Attack Surface: How to secure it and why it matters

Managing an organization’s attack surface is a complex problem involving asset discovery, vulnerability analysis, and continuous monitoring. There are multiple well-defined solutions to secure the attack surface, such as extended detection and response EDR or XDR, security information & event...

Wallarm to sponsor OWASP AppSec USA

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional you can not miss the application security event of the year: AppSec USA, September 19–22nd at Disney Coronado Spring Resort, Orlando, FL Use the code: UNLM50WLLRM to register to get $50 discount. You will get great information on the new security tools a...

API Security’s Role in Responsible AI Deployment

By now, you will almost certainly be aware of the transformative impact artificial intelligence AI technologies are having on the world. What you may not be aware of, however, is the role Application Programming Interfaces APIs are playing in the AI revolution. The bottom line is that APIs are...

Best API Security Product: Wallarm wins 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Award

We are thrilled to announce that Wallarm has clinched the sought-after 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Award, under the category Best API Security Product. Our unwavering commitment to pioneering solutions that safeguard digital ecosystems, and fortify API security amidst the evolving cyber threat...

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...

The hidden costs of security breaches

The real cost of a security breach to your business is larger than many imagine. On the surface there is incredible expensive to recovering from breaches. What is often also at risk is the inestimable damage to company morale, brand reputation, and operations. The post The hidden costs of securit...

Webinar with Rick Orloff, ex CISO of eBay

Join us at 11 am PDT on Wednesday, September 27 for a live frank conversation with Rick Orloff, CSO of Code42 and former CISO of eBay. UPDATE: The recorded webinar is available as a podcast: Rick shared his insights about the changing role of security with new realities of DevOps world, new...

Q2-2023 API ThreatStats™ Report: API Exploits Are Everywhere: from NVIDIA to Reddit and more!

Our Q2-2023 API ThreatStats™ report is out. It provides API builders, defenders, breakers, and decision-makers with a comprehensive look at the API security vulnerabilities, threats and exploits reported this past quarter. This report provides everyone involved in API development, security and...

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...

OWASP API Security Top-10 Risks for 2023 Released

Back in April we took an in-depth look at the proposed OWASP Top-10 API Security Risks list for 2023. This Release Candidate RC contained a few changes from the 4-year-old version, most notably: 1. Created a new category API3:2023RC Broken Object Property Level Authorization by essentially...

The most cited Wallarm researches in 2019

Our researchers are constantly working on information security issues and in 2019 we published dozens of articles on this topic. Stay with us and let's make the IT world safer together! The post The most cited Wallarm researches in 2019 appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

What The Actual WAF!?

we need to kick out the solutions that are no longer functioning to give ample room for the advanced WAF solutions. Join us in this discussion. The post What The Actual WAF!? appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

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...

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...

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...

Directory Traversal: Examples, Testing, and Prevention

Unveiling the Enigma of Path Navigation: An Exhaustive Exploration and Insight Path Navigation, often referred to as Folder Navigation, symbolizes a kind of security extraction point allowing unauthorized individuals to gain unauthorized access to specific files held within a server's database...

CISO: Top 10 Trends for 2024

I recently hosted and moderated a distinguished panel of Chief Information Security Officers CISOs - Nitin Raina, CISO at ThoughtWorks, Mike Wilkes, former CISO at Marvel and Yogesh Badwe, CSO at Druva. We discussed major trends for 2024 across an array of topics including the evolving threat...

Wallarm Launches Support of Envoy Proxy/ Envoy API Protection

Wallarm can protect North-South API in the applications that use Envoy as an alternative Ingress controller at the front end of a Kubernetes cluster. Wallarm can also protect edge traffic and also East-West Envoy API for Service-Mesh and Istio. The post Wallarm Launches Support of Envoy Proxy/...

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...

Choosing the Right Deployment Option for Your API Security Solution

You need an API security solution. That much is a given although some may argue it isn’t!. While essential for business growth and innovation, APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, expose the organizations that use them to cyber threats. Attackers are both aware of and actively exploiting...

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...

Consul by HashiCorp: from Infoleak to RCE

Consul is a software first released in 2014 for DNS-based service discovery. It provides distributed key-value storage, segmentation, and configuration. Registered services and nodes can be queried using a DNS interface or an HTTP interface. Wikipedia Basically, Consul ensures the coherence of...

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...

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...

Wallarm Node — now as a Google Cloud image

Today we’re excited to announce native availability of Wallarm Node image for Google Cloud Platform GCP. Many Wallarm customers and prospects use Google Cloud for its high-performance, scalable infrastructure with excellent price/performance. The ability to customize machine types to customer...

CISO Spotlight: Mike Wilkes on Building Resilience in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Mike Wilkes has had a career many cybersecurity professionals could only dream of. An adjunct professor, former CISO of Marvel and MLS, member of the World Economic Forum, drummer, and board member at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, his interests and achievements are as eclectic as they are...

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...

Wallarm Webinar: NIST CSF 2.0, API Security, and CISO Imperatives

Last week, our good friend Raj Umadas, Director of Security at ActBlue, teamed up with our very own Tim Erlin, Head of Product, to talk about the newly proposed NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF. It was a fantastic discussion covering the intent behind this update, the major changes from v1.1 to...

Isometric Illustrations in Figma

Figma is a powerful tool for interface development and prototyping. We use it to design our products and to create graphic layouts for marketing and other purposes. One of the most significant advantages of Figma is that it allows you to write custom plugins enabling third-party developers to...

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...

Major update for Wallarm UI

We’ve just released a couple of features we’re really excited about Live Threat Verification results The Active Threat Verification component was always a unique feature of Wallarm. Having the ability to replay the attack/payload against the application or its staging environment gives our...

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...

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...

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...