AppCheck Security Blog

AppCheck Plug-in for Citrix Vulnerability CVE-2019-19781

Product Research Security Alerts / Posted December 18, 2019

AppCheck have released a plug-in to detect a remote code execution flaw in Citrix appliances.

AppCheck Shortlisted for Prolific North Tech Awards 2020

News / Posted December 16, 2019

The Prolific North Awards represent 'the very best tech companies' across the North, judged by an esteemed panel of industry leaders and experts.
This year AppCheck has been shortlisted for two categories:

'Tech Growth Business of the Year Award' and 'Tech Company of the Year - Small.'

Scan & Secure Joomla with AppCheck

News Product / Posted December 11, 2019

Joomla is a popular Content Management System (CMS), used to manage websites. Having over 2.3 million websites live at time of press.
Joomla is ranked 3rd place in 2018’s most hacked websites according to a recent report.
Read more about common vulnerabilities within Joomla.

Case Study - Queen's University of Belfast

Case Studies / Posted November 20, 2019

We caught up with Queen's University Belfast to see how AppCheck has helped them. Take a look at what they said.

Macy's falls victim to hack exposing customer data

Security Alerts / Posted November 20, 2019

Popular department store Macy's looks to have been hit with a card skimming hack.
The hack appears very similar to those conducted by hacking group Magecart who have historically targeted Airline giants British Airways as well as online ticket sales company Ticketmaster, amongst others.

AppCheck Webinar: URL's, Uploads & Dragons [New date announced]

Events / Posted November 19, 2019

The team here at AppCheck would like to invite you and your colleagues to our next 1-hour webinar surrounding the subtle dangers of the humble URL. We ran this session at The Cyber Hack Theatre at the Digital Transformation Expo London 2019 this year and due to the overwhelming success have decided to provide this as a webinar for those not able to attend.

Manchester Web Application Security Seminar - November 2019

Events / Posted November 11, 2019

Web Application Security Seminar

The Web Application Security seminar is a free event that presents a detailed analysis of the most common threats facing web applications today. We will review high profile examples and provide a technical breakdown of critical security flaws along with an introduction into emerging technologies such as HTML5.
Each candidate will receive a copy of the slides and exclusive tools and exploit code used in the live hacking demonstrations.

Halloween Special: AppCheck's Scariest Vulnerabilities

News / Posted October 31, 2019

AppCheck’s Dev team got their heads together to come up with the Top 5 Vulnerabilities that keep them up at night.

Now this list isn’t all-encompassing or a list of the worst vulnerabilities out there. Each one is on the list for a different reason. Continue reading to discover why we these particular vulnerabilities give us the chills and fangs for checking it out.

Case Study - Music Magpie

Case Studies / Posted October 29, 2019

'[AppCheck] provides us with a tool we can use whenever we want rather than the position we were in before of getting visibility twice a year and being charged for anything outside that. It puts the power back with us and arms us with everything we need to stay on top of vulnerabilities.'

Some amazing feedback from global retailers Music Magpie when we spoke with their IT team recently.

Case Study - The University of Derby

Case Studies / Posted October 22, 2019

'AppCheck has had such a positive impact across the business in many aspects. It has given the organisation transparency, it produces good reports, it provides peace of mind.'
See what the University of Derby had to say about AppCheck when we caught up with their IT Department.

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