In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, where the battle between defenders and hackers continues to escalate, it is crucial to scrutinize every aspect of web interactions. While the HTTP status code 200 OK is generally associated with successful API calls, there’s a dark side to its seemingly harmless appearance that often goes unnoticed.

In the fast-evolving landscape of digital connectivity, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication between diverse software systems. As organizations increasingly rely on APIs to power their applications, robust API security becomes paramount.

Graylog API Security v3.6 is here! Just taking the version number by itself, v3.6 sounds like an incremental step forward. But the truth is that v3.6 isn’t just a release milestone; it’s a huge inflection point in our mission to improve API security. There are multiple “firsts” in v3.6, which makes the total combination even more exciting.

The recent identification of CVE-2024-23897 in Jenkins versions up to 2.441 has significantly heightened concerns within the cybersecurity community, particularly focusing on the implications for public-facing Jenkins servers. Jenkins servers are important for many organizations as they are used in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automating stages of software development and deployment.

On January 16th, 2024, Atlassian released an advisory highlighting a critical vulnerability within certain versions of Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. This issue, tracked under the identifier CVE-2023-22527, involves a severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability stemming from a template injection flaw in out-of-date software versions. The risk is significant, with unauthenticated attackers potentially gaining the ability to execute arbitrary code on affected installations.

If you’re handling sensitive information, dealing with data loss can be more than just a headache. Log management tools such as Graylog can enhance your incident response and management strategies, and help you mitigate the damage when a breach occurs in your database. Minimizing data loss with a fast and scalable logging solution is key if you want to bring your cybersecurity to the next level.

Macro technology trends have always impacted and influenced every aspect of the retail industry. From the days of catalog ordering and cash only transactions to today’s personalized, always-on omnichannel experiences where contactless payment has become the norm - the world of retail is almost unrecognizable.

On January 10th, 2024, Volexity reported that there is active exploitation in the wild against Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN devices. Ivanti and Volexity worked together to review impacted devices, and Volexity identified two different zero days, which have been assigned the following CVEs IDs.

Audit logs are essential for ensuring the security of an organization’s information systems. They track all events that occur within a system, including log-on attempts, file access, network connection, and other crucial operations. Should But, without proper management, audit logs are mostly a wasted opportunity – nothing more than scraps of data whose importance and potential are never harnessed.