In the digital era, financial institutions serve an increasing number of customers through web and mobile applications. Fintech maintains online security, and OWASP offers pieces of the puzzle to address the challenges. We CAN solve these challenges by leveraging the OWASP community knowledge base to secure the financial sector. On May 21st, 2020, I had the honor to dive into these challenges from multiple perspectives with my two guests, Vandana Verma and Victor Gartvich. We…
Figma is a powerful tool for interface development and prototyping. We use it to design our products and to create graphic layouts for marketing and other purposes. One of the most significant advantages of Figma is that it allows you to write custom plugins enabling third-party developers to expand the already extensive range of the platform’s capabilities. Let’s discuss one of such plugins. For new brochures, our product designer came up with an interesting concept:…
Last month, Wallarm Cybersecurity Strategist Kavya Pearlman interviewed cyberwar fare expert Chris Kubecka via a webinar session that was well attended and very timely discussion. If you missed the webinar, worry not! Here is a quick recap of the discussion around “Application Security in the age of Cyberwar”. These days we must be prepared to fight off not just hackers in search of simple financial gain, but malicious actors funded by hostile states. Asymmetry is…
There is such a thing as SSRF. There’s lots of information about it, but here is my quick summary. Let’s say you go to a website, fill out your profile, and get to the “Upload Profile Picture” step. And you have a choice: upload a file or specify a link.
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With this update we significantly reduced Elasticsearch load and thereby improved the responsiveness of the user interface with an attack showing up within seconds of being detected. Our new user-friendly interface has a lag time of no more than 5 seconds.