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New Kubernetes high severity vulnerability alert: CVE-2021-25742

On Oct 21st, the Kubernetes Security Response Committee issued an alert that a new high severity vulnerability was discovered in Kubernetes with respect to the ingress-nginx - CVE-2021-25742. The issue was reported by Mitch Hulscher. Through this vulnerability, a user who can create or update ingress objects, can use the custom snippets feature to obtain all secrets in the cluster.

Top DevSecOps Tools For 2022

DevSecOps combines the responsibilities of development, security and operations in order to make everyone accountable for security in line with the ongoing activities conducted by development and operations teams. DevSecOps tools serve to assist the user in minimising risk as part of the development process and also support security teams by allowing them to observe the security implications of code in production.

Is Influencer Marketing being Besieged by Bad Bots and Fake Followers?

Influencer marketing is set to be worth $13.8 billion by the end of 2021, rising from $9.7 billion since last year. With many people working from home during the pandemic, monetizing a social media following by creating sponsored posts for brands has become a popular side hustle. This can be seen by the rapid growth of emerging platforms, particularly TikTok which saw over 2 billion downloads in 2020 and a 45% increase in its use by influencers in 2021 to date.

Could your kids spot this mobile phish?

I realized early on that if I didn’t teach my kids how to identify and avoid likely attacks on their laptops and phones, that no one would. Nevertheless, when I see an opportunity for a “teachable security moment” I grab it, and last week this mobile phishes appeared on my phone. I captured a screen shot to share with my children and we played a little “spot the phish” game, where they would point out all the things that made this text suspicious.

CISOs to Developers: Changing the Way Organizations Look at Authorization Policy

In today’s cloud-native, app-first and remote-first world, it has become a considerably more complicated task to verify the identity of a user or a service, and determine policies that say what they are and aren’t allowed to do. Yet, the first half of that problem, authentication, for the most part, is already solved because of standards like Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OAuth and Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE).

What's the difference between Attack Surface Monitoring and Vulnerability Scanning?

Detectify is driving the future of internet security with automation and crowdsourcing hacker research. It’s focused on helping companies detect anomalies in their web attack surface at scale, and creative automated hacks in the web app layer in time.

Mapping vulnerabilities to microservices with Snyk and OpsLevel

John Laban is the Founder & CEO at OpsLevel. This blog post originally appeared on the OpsLevel blog. Snyk is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for businesses that want to build security into their continuous software development processes. And with their developer-first tooling and best-in-class security intelligence, it’s no surprise.