Two of Wallarm’s Open-source Tools Have Been Accepted into Black Hat Arsenal 2024

We're gearing up with some seriously cool stuff for Black Hat! But first, a little sneak peek - not just one, but TWO of Wallarm's open-source tools will be featured in the Arsenal showcase at Black Hat USA this year. Black Hat Arsenal unites researchers and the open-source community to display...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What does Zero Trust mean for API security?

The old mentality of building a moat around important assets and trusting anyone or anything that is already inside the castle perimeter has failed us. Attackers have developed many techniques to jump the moat and scale the castle walls to get at what they want. Thus, the new rallying cry is to...

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...

How to Build a Cybersecurity Culture in Your Company

Decoding the Essential Components of Cyber Safeguard Culture In today's era, marked by copious dependencies on digital technologies, strengthening defenses against digital security vulnerabilities has become more than just a choice, it's a critical necessity. Establishing a culture of cyber...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Risks involved with operatorAliases in Sequelize

The risks involved with the operatorAliases option in Sequelize, the popular library for DBMSs The post Risks involved with operatorAliases in Sequelize 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...

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...

BlackHat Week is Coming Up

It’s that time of the year again and our team is packing up to go to Las Vegas. Our theme this year is DevSecOps. As companies are embracing DevOps processes, adopt continuous development and continuous integration and follow the agile methodology, it becomes obvious that the old security model o...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 2 By Johan Nordstrom To be able to keep up with the development of new security threats, companies need to rethink their security strategies. The basics must be to decrease complexity and use automated solutions when possible. There has been a change in the...

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...

CRUD VS REST Explained

In the digital creation field, particularly web building, there exists two phrases that often become a riddle for neophytes and even seasoned coders: CRUD and REST. These pair of notions form the bedrock of knowledge in comprehending how information is tweaked and relayed across the World Wide We...

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...