Category: Application Security

  • AI Agent Tooling Is Turning Metadata Into an Attack Surface

    AI agent security is beginning to move beyond the familiar problem of malicious prompts. The more serious issue is what happens after the model is connected to real systems. Once an AI assistant can reach files, APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, code repositories, ticketing queues, and internal workflows, the security boundary is no longer just the…

  • Vulnerability Management Is Outgrowing Severity Scores

    Vulnerability management has always involved a mismatch between volume and capacity. Security teams identify thousands of findings across endpoints, cloud workloads, SaaS platforms, network appliances, containers, applications, and third-party software. Remediation teams do not have unlimited time, and many systems cannot be patched without maintenance windows, regression testing, uptime planning, or business approval. That is…

  • How AI Use Creates New Compliance Challenges

    AI adoption is creating a new class of compliance risk that does not fit cleanly inside traditional policy, audit, privacy, or security programs. For years, most compliance programs were built around known systems, known data flows, defined user roles, documented vendors, and repeatable business processes. Artificial intelligence changes that operating model. It introduces probabilistic outputs,…

  • Netizen: Monday Security Brief (6/29/2026)

    Today’s Topics: Squidbleed Shows Why Old Proxy Code Still Belongs in the Threat Model FortiBleed Shows Why Firewall Credentials Are Now Perimeter Risk How can Netizen help? Squidbleed Shows Why Old Proxy Code Still Belongs in the Threat Model Squidbleed is the kind of vulnerability that looks small in code and much larger in an…

  • The Growing Market for Stolen Browser Data

    The modern browser has become one of the most valuable data repositories in the enterprise. It stores passwords, cookies, active sessions, autofill fields, saved payment details, authentication tokens, browsing history, device identifiers, and traces of nearly every cloud platform a user touches during the workday. For attackers, that makes the browser less like a utility…

  • The Next Software Supply Chain Problem May Not Be Code

    Software supply chain security has spent the last several years focused on source code, third-party packages, vulnerable libraries, and malicious dependencies. That focus made sense. Incidents like Log4Shell, dependency confusion, typosquatting, and compromised open-source packages made it clear that organizations needed better visibility into what their applications were built from. That visibility still matters. SBOMs,…

  • Netizen: Monday Security Brief (6/22/2026)

    Today’s Topics: INTERPOL Warns Cybercrime Is Surging Across Asia-Pacific as Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Scale Up The Gentlemen Ransomware Shows How Former Affiliates Are Building Faster, Leaner RaaS Operations How can Netizen help? INTERPOL Warns Cybercrime Is Surging Across Asia-Pacific as Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Scale Up Cybercrime is rising sharply across Asia…

  • How AI Changes Secure Code Review

    Secure code review has always required more than finding obvious injection bugs or checking whether a developer used the right library call. Good review connects code behavior to trust boundaries, data flow, authorization logic, state changes, error handling, deployment context, and abuse cases. AI does not remove that requirement. It changes the volume, speed, source,…

  • The Security Risks Hidden in Service Accounts

    Service accounts sit at the intersection of identity, application runtime, infrastructure automation, and privileged access. They run Windows services, connect middleware to databases, let pipelines deploy code, let SaaS applications read tenant data, and allow workloads in cloud and Kubernetes environments to call APIs without a person at the keyboard. That operational value also makes…

  • The Difference Between Passing a SOC 2 Audit and Maintaining a SOC 2 Program

    For many organizations, SOC 2 begins as a customer request. A prospect asks for the report, a contract requires it, or a sales cycle stalls until the organization can prove that it has controls in place to protect customer data. That pressure often turns SOC 2 into a project with a deadline, an audit window,…