Infrastructure-agnostic web app protection with virtual patching option

Signal Sciences announced the latest innovations for its Web Protection Platform. Its patented architecture provides security, operations and development teams with the visibility, security and scalability needed to protect against the full spectrum of… Continue reading Infrastructure-agnostic web app protection with virtual patching option

Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks

Web Application Firewalls are the most advanced firewall capabilities available to IT teams. Deploying the appropriate WAF is important, especially these days when the security threat landscape is changing so rapidly. In a previous post, we introduced … Continue reading Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks

Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018

In the wake of the global political fallout over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, there are reports of a growing threat of Russian state or Russian state-affiliated hacking groups conducting cyber attack reprisals against UK organisations, g… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018

Making the Grade: Achieve SSL Labs A+ Grade with Imperva WAF

In this blog post, we’ll go over how to elevate your web server SSL/TLS implementation, why it’s important, and how you can leverage our version 13.0 release for Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF), available today, to achieve the desir… Continue reading Making the Grade: Achieve SSL Labs A+ Grade with Imperva WAF

RedisWannaMine Unveiled: New Cryptojacking Attack Powered by Redis and NSA Exploits

Recently cryptojacking attacks have been spreading like wildfire. This week we saw a new generation of cryptojacking attacks aimed at both database servers and application servers. We dubbed one of these attacks RedisWannaMine. Read on.
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Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps

When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and regular security audits of software. The company had already previously engaged… Continue reading Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps

Securing Healthcare Data and Applications

The healthcare industry is quickly growing as a sweet spot for hackers to steal large amounts of patient records for profit. The US Department of Health and Human Services breach tool reports over 340 data breaches in 2017 impacting more than 3 million… Continue reading Securing Healthcare Data and Applications

Inside a New DDoS Amplification Attack Vector via Memcached Servers

We recently saw a new DDoS amplification attack vector via memcached servers that culminated in two massive DDoS amplification attacks on February 28. Both attacks were mitigated successfully. Here’s how memchached servers work and how the attack… Continue reading Inside a New DDoS Amplification Attack Vector via Memcached Servers

NetRefer Chooses Imperva Incapsula WAF: A Case Study

Since 2005, companies have been using NetRefer’s performance marketing software to fully automate their affiliate programs. Find out why NetRefer chose Imperva Incapsula WAF to protect it’s platform against DDoS and web threats.
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