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Sensitive data exposure is #3 in the current OWASP top Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks.

Data breaches are becoming increasingly common, and one factor driving this escalation is the fact that today’s IT systems are integrated and interconnected, requiring login information from multiple parties and services. In response, Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Secrets Manager, a service designed to help organizations get a handle on these “secrets” by storing and accessing them in a secure way.

The npm Registry is vulnerable for supply chain impersonation attacks. Make sure you create npm scoped packages and force exclude patterns.

On January 28, 2021 the dark web community was informed that “ValidCC”, one of the leading marketplaces for compromised payment card details, was unexpectedly closing its services for good. This happened less than a month after “Joker’s Stash”, another popular dark web payment card marketplace, announced its retirement.

Picture this: a young person is in a dark room. The only thing visible is their figure, as it is just barely lit by the blinding LEDs of their computer screen. They type furiously on an ergonomic keyboard as thousands of lines of neon green monospace text fly across the screen. Click-clack-click-clack-click-clack.

This is your go-to reference for examples of sensitive data, definition and GDPR personal data including how to identify, classify and protect sensitive data. Highlights It is now easy to access information relating to an individual from the north pole to the south pole with a fast-moving world. You have ever wondered how your personal information is protected or even handled?

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Most of us after almost a year of regular lock-downs are experiencing cabin fever. In some cases it erupts in quite interesting ways – such as this one. I very much doubt it is a hacker, most likely an employee trying to release ‘tension’.

When it comes to maturing an AppSec program, there are several best practices that can help you get started. In part two of our AppSec podcast series, Tim Jarrett, Director of Product Management at Veracode, and Kyle Pippin, Director of Product Management at ThreadFix, share the top 3 things they’ve learned from organizations that have successfully matured and scaled their AppSec programs.