Successful mitigation of today’s security threats requires an approach that is both on the offensive and on the defensive. Here, we give our take on how to approach and handle specific security challenges, as well as our reaction to some of the latest industry topics.
Security company Qualys has uncovered a truly dangerous memory corruption vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, CVE-2021-4034, dubbed “PwnKit”. Polkit, formerly known as PolicyKit, is a systemd SUID-root program. It’s installed by default in every major Linux distribution, which means that tens of millions of devices are vulnerable to this easily-exploitable bug. What makes this flaw even… Read more »
06.17.21Mobile apps have become the preferred choice for today’s consumers, with app usage taking up 90% of all mobile uptime – more than the entire browser-based internet as a whole – and it’s easy to see why. Mobile apps provide a better user experience compared to mobile browsers and desktops thanks to the ease-of-use, speed… Read more »
02.16.21How We Put One Client’s Web App Security to the Ultimate Test Did you know that web applications have become the #1 target for the exploitation of vulnerabilities? Check out these alarming stats: Researchers found around 70 types of weaknesses in web applications. (Source: PT Security) 46% of web applications have critical vulnerabilities. (Acunetix’s report… Read more »
