Back in 2019, OWASP released its first API Top-10 list. It quickly gained widespread acceptance and acknowledgment from the industry about the challenges faced in protecting APIs. Since then, growth in APIs has continued, and the threat landscape also evolved rapidly. OWASP has released an updated API Top 10 2023 with quite a few changes from 2019 to address the changes and provide new insights and recommendations.

In the digital age, Android vulnerability scanners, or as some may call them, android app vulnerability scanners, have become an essential tool for maintaining the security of mobile applications. Given Android’s substantial mobile OS market share, it’s a prime target for cyber threats.

By now, we’re all painfully aware that AI has become a crucial and inevitable tool for developers to enhance their application development practices. Even if organizations restrict their developers using AI tools, we hear many stories of how they circumvent this through VPNs, and personal accounts.

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 to instruct (guide) website owners and security experts on constructing, purchasing, and maintaining trustworthy and secure software applications. In lay terms, it is a forum where several application security firms and industry specialists provide input to identify the top, most critical security risks that threaten web applications.

On September 20, 2023, JetBrains published a blog detailing a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that was identified in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2023-42793). This vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 9.8 and can allow an unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity server to perform RCE. All versions of TeamCity On-Premises are affected by this vulnerability.

In the modern software ecosystem, containerization has become a popular method for packaging and deploying applications. Alongside this growing trend, ensuring the security of software supply chains has become a critical concern for businesses of all sizes. Implementing best practices, such as signing and verifying images to mitigate man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and validating their authenticity and freshness, play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of the software supply chain.

Delta Dental of California is a major dental insurance provider throughout one of the largest states in the US. The company is well-known for offering PPO dental insurance policies and other varieties of dental insurance options. The company was founded in 1955 and serves millions of Americans throughout nearly all of the 50 states. All California residents using Delta Dental may have been impacted by a recent data breach that could cause real problems for them.

On September 21, 2023, Apple released emergency security updates to fix three vulnerabilities impacting macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Safari. Citizen Lab and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) observed these three vulnerabilities exploited in an exploit chain against a former Egyptian Member of Parliament to deploy Predator spyware. Predator was developed by Intellexa/Cytrox to perform surveillance on targeted mobile devices.

Welcome to the 10th 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 API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.

Many organizations today rely only on “unauthenticated” web application security scans, leaving their admin and user portals unchecked. While it is crucial to protect your system against external automated attacks, you shouldn’t ignore the possibility of a targeted attack from someone with valid logins. If your app lets anyone signup online, it could easily expose your business to attackers.