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Lookout Uncovers Hermit Spyware Deployed in Kazakhstan

Lookout Threat Lab researchers have uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillanceware used by the government of Kazakhstan within its borders. While we’ve been following this threat for a while using Lookout Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) these latest samples were detected in April 2022, four months after nation-wide protests against government policies were violently suppressed.

Top 10 Security Issues in Mobile App Development

As a mobile app developer, you must develop and release fully functional and safe applications. While you can manage the functionality quite comfortably, making the application secure and resilient to cyber-attacks is hard. So, what should you do? Well, we got you covered. This blog discusses the top 10 security issues developers encounter during mobile app development and the solutions.

API security: 12 essential best practices to keep your data & APIs safe

If you don’t think API security is that important, think again. Last year, 91% of organizations had an API security incident. The proliferation of SOAP and REST APIs makes it easy for organizations to tailor their application ecosystems. But, APIs also hold the keys to all of a company’s data. And as data-centric projects become more in demand, it increases the likelihood of a target API attack campaign.

What Are Web Cookies? The Privacy and Security Risks of Internet Cookies

This article has nothing to do with chocolate chips or sprinkles. Sorry about that. Instead, we're talking about computer cookies and how too many web cookies can be bad for your online health. While cookies are enormously helpful and necessary for an easy-going web experience, they are not all good, and many pose some genuine privacy concerns. But what is a cookie, how does one work, and how do they (sometimes) infringe on your digital rights?

Enforcing Cloud Resource Policy Guardrails for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud

I’m excited to announce the Styra DAS integration with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud via run tasks is now generally available to Styra DAS users! Users can now enforce cloud resource policy guardrails at every step of the DevOps process, including right before Terraform Cloud applies changes to your cloud resources.

Securing cloud workloads in 5 easy steps

As organizations transition from monolithic services in traditional data centers to microservices architecture in a public cloud, security becomes a bottleneck and causes delays in achieving business goals. Traditional security paradigms based on perimeter-driven firewalls do not scale for communication between workloads within the cluster and 3rd-party APIs outside the cluster.

Securing SSH on EC2: What are the real threats?

Every compliance audit will ask you to secure SSH, and every time a scanner checks the configuration or CSPM of your cloud account you’ll be warned for it. For example, if you don’t secure SSH on EC2, you’ll certainly get a critical alert stating that one of your Security Groups has its SSH port (22) open to the world. When this happens, you may think: Have I been pwned?