Displaying items by tag: API attacks

COMPANY NEWS:

• 31% of organisations experience DDoS attacks on a weekly basis
• 46% of organisations see web application attacks on a daily or weekly basis
• 66% of organisations would not be very surprised if their APIs were breached tomorrow

GUEST OPINION: The Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and US National Security Agency (NSA) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning vendors, designers, and developers of web applications and organisations using web applications about insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities, also known as broken object level authorisation (BOLA) vulnerabilities.

UEST RESEARCH: Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today released its second half 2022 report titled API protection report: holiday build-up shows 550 percent jump in unique threats. Developed by the CQ prime threat research team, the report is based on the analysis of approximately one trillion API transactions spanning various industries over the second half of 2022 and seeks to highlight the latest API threat trends plaguing organisations today.

GUEST OPINION: While the rapid advance of 5G communications delivers comprehensive benefits for communication service providers (CSPs), the new technology also presents challenges in security and cost.

More needs to be done to protect against application security threats, particularly newer threats like bot attacks, API attacks, and supply chain attacks, according to one global security firm.