NTT Application Security Specialist

Our roundtable of experts weighs in on implications for Apple and lawmakers in the wake of the bombshell report showing widespread surveillance of dissidents, journalists and others.

Verizon will be working with Google to bring the Rich Communications Service (RCS) standard to Android users in the US starting next year, joining T-Mobile and AT&T which both announced the switch earlier this year.

The revelation that Israeli company NSO Group’s spy software Pegasus was targeting the smartphones of activists, journalists and business executives sent a shockwave through the international press.

Microsoft has now released patches to protect all versions of Windows against the critical PrintNightmare flaw. On Tuesday, the company had deployed fixes to cover most but not all editions of Windows.

The latest zero-day entails an attack chain that allows an unauthenticated intruder to execute code as root and install a permanent backdoor on the vendor’s network-attached storage (NAS) devices. It’s found in all Western Digital NAS devices running the old, no-longer-supported My Cloud 3 operating system.

The cryptocurrency brokerage of Robinhood Markets Inc. expects to pay New York regulators a penalty of at least $10 million for allegedly violating state rules on cybersecurity and anti-money-laundering practices, the company said in filings last week.

For many industries, the pandemic was a time of economic uncertainty, great technological change and reflection about where they and their services fit into a post-COVID reality.

WhiteHat Security published their latest installment of the AppSec Stats Flash report and podcast, surveying the current state of the application security and wider threat landscape.

The cybersecurity industry has become so essential and exciting. What is coming around the corner? What are the concerns we should keep an eye out for?

The report, titled AppSec Stats Flash, shows that utility companies have the widest exposure in their applications vulnerabilities.

A new report from WhiteHat Security has found that the average time taken to fix critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities has increased from 197 days in April 2021 to 205 days in May 2021.

The threat of cyberattacks continues to rise unabated, and Washington is taking urgent notice.

A new report from WhiteHat Security measured the amount of time a sector remained vulnerable to a known application exploit out in the wild, a metric they call an industry’s window of exposure (WoE).

Around 2% of the 1,000 top-grossing apps in the Apple App Store are scams, according to a recent analysis by The Washington Post.

A new analysis from the Washington Post reveals just how widespread fraud is across the Apple App Store, while also offering glimpse into the revenue flowing into Cupertino generated by those malicious activities.

Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm announced that it is suffering from a ransomware attack, becoming the latest victim of cyberattackers who in the last week alone have crippled everything from the largest meat processor in the US to the ferry system serving Martha's Vineyard.

With all the talk about the ongoing menace of ransomware, it’s easy to overlook application-specific attacks. But new research from WhiteHat Security shows that there might just be a greater likelihood of the latter.

A key metric that indicates vulnerability to cyberattacks has increased since the start of the year, a cybersecurity firm says.

An unknown number of Rapid 7 customers — and Rapid7 itself — have become the latest victims of security incidents affecting trusted third-party software supply chain partners.

The data of over 100 million Android users could be exposed to hackers due to a flaw in the way the devices handle cloud security, according to a report issued Thursday.

WhiteHat Security, a subsidiary of NTT, has announced an integration with Bit Discovery to make it easier for developers and cybersecurity teams to discover the extent to which the attack surface they need to defend might be impacted by a vulnerability.

WhiteHat Security, a subsidiary of NTT, has announced an integration with Bit Discovery to make it easier for developers and cybersecurity teams to discover the extent to which the attack surface they need to defend might be impacted by a vulnerability.

In a blog post commemorating World Password Day, Google announced the move to make users sign in via a second step after entering a password, such as a mobile app.

Colonial Pipeline, which operates the biggest gasoline conduit to the East Coast, said it has no estimate on when it could restart the 5,500-mile pipeline that it shut Friday after a cyberattack.

A newly revealed vulnerability that could give hackers access to your phone shows manufacturers need to take more responsibility for alerting users about security problems, experts say.

The hack was first uncovered when Apple employees started looking into malicious App Store apps, according to Ars Technica.