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5 reasons why developers at FinServ institutions are outpacing their security teammates

Advanced biometrics. Seamless onboarding walkthroughs. Cross-platform integrations. Hyper-personalized dashboards. Cleanly designed reports. These are just some of the features today’s users expect from their financial applications, pushing most financial institutions to release them quickly — or risk being outpaced by FinTech disruptors who already do. As a result, development teams must build more quickly, adopting new technologies to stay in step with demanding goals and tight deadlines.

What's New in Calico Cloud Summer 2024 Release

In the rapidly evolving world of container security, staying ahead of threats and keeping abreast of vulnerabilities is crucial. Calico Cloud continues to lead the way with new capabilities designed to enhance security posture, reduce noise, and improve operational efficiency for Security and DevOps teams. Here’s a comprehensive look at how these enhancements can impact your security posture and streamline your operations.

Empowering Developers in AppSec: Triage and Collaboration

Historically, security programs have struggled when they fail to include developers and partner teams, often falling into the trap of focusing solely on the security team’s needs. This approach has led to a disconnect between security and development teams, resulting in ineffective vulnerability management and often strained relationships.

Backup is Back

Flannel shirts, acid-washed jeans, Polaroid cameras, and vinyl records—these items which were once out of style are now emerging as popular must-haves among the younger generation. In the realm of IT, data backup has always been a necessity. Initially, it represented a compelling concept—storing data in an alternate location to ensure redundancy and failover capabilities in preparation for natural disasters.

Use of Malicious Links Surges by 133% in Q1, Setting the Tone for the First Half of 2024

Threat actors are opting for malicious links over attachments in email-based attacks because it gives them a critical advantage that many solutions can’t address. Given that a malicious email is the very first step (or close to it) in an attack, it’s critically important that the attack maintain its’ stealth; detecting an attack at this point means an early (and well-deserved) death to the attack itself – something threat actors don’t want to see.

Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities. I’ll let the results speak for themselves: During our research, we successfully identified a privilege escalation from the default user on a fresh Ubuntu Desktop installation to root.

As Security Budgets Cool, CISO's Warm Up to New Ideas

Security spending is losing momentum with a third of CISOs reporting flat or reduced budgets this year. These numbers come from a recent annual survey of 755 cybersecurity decision-makers conducted by IANS Research. Decreased spending in the face of growing cyberattacks put pressure on security leaders to find better ways to optimize their processes. Fortunately, CISOs are discovering solutions for this problem by following the tried-and-true tactics of simplification, consolidation, and innovation.

Revolutionizing Security Testing: Advancements in Automated DAST on Real Devices

With organizations continuing to build and enhance their mobile applications and developers embracing new ways of building applications to improve the speed to market and customer experiences, billions of dollars are invested in Appsec tools. However, 85% of these applications still contain known vulnerabilities, and most breaches occur at the application layer. Automated DAST helps in combating such vulnerabilities.

How To Use an Authenticator App

To use an authenticator app, you will need to choose one that suits your security preferences, scan the QR code or enter the key, securely store your backup codes and sign in to your account. An authenticator app verifies your identity by generating random numeric codes that you will enter with your username and password to access an account.

How Did My Bank Account Get Hacked?

If you’ve realized your bank account got hacked, you are most likely panicked and want to secure your finances as soon as possible. You may even be wondering how something like this could have happened to you. Your bank account could have gotten hacked due to various cyber attacks, including brute force, phishing, SIM swapping, credit card skimming or Man-in-the-Middle (MITM).