Application security
Why use GWT? Most modern web applications utilize an AJAX functionality of some sort to make them highly interactive and to have a user interface that works
Introduction In the second installment of this series, we discussed one of the most prevalent attacks to applications: SQL Injection. The previous discussion
Introduction There are multiple intercepting proxy tools available and Burp Suite is one of the best tools available for interception. If you are not yet fam
Burp Suite is one of the best tools available for web application testing. Its wide variety of features helps us perform various tasks, from intercepting a r
For several years now, there has been an explosive increase in the use of mobile applications. Included in this staggering increase of mobile software are ap
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Web applications today suffer from a variety of vulnerabilities. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most prevalent web application security flaws, yet
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In this series
- New Page Test 4
- New Page test3
- New Page test2
- New Test Page
- DevSecOps: Moving from “shift left” to “born left”
- What’s new in the OWASP Top 10 for 2023?
- DevSecOps: Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools
- Introduction to DevSecOps and its evolution and statistics
- MongoDB (part 3): How to secure data
- MongoDB (part 2): How to manage data using CRUD operations
- MongoDB (part 1): How to design a schemaless, NoSQL database
- Understanding the DevSecOps Pipeline
- API Security: How to take a layered approach to protect your data
- How to find the perfect security partner for your company
- Security gives your company a competitive advantage
- 3 major flaws of the black-box approach to security testing
- Can bug bounty programs replace dedicated security testing?
- The 7 steps of ethical hacking
- Laravel authorization best practices and tips
- Learn how to do application security right in your organization
- How to use authorization in Laravel: Gates, policies, roles and permissions
- Is your company testing security often enough?
- Authentication vs. authorization: Which one should you use, and when?
- Why your company should prioritize security vulnerabilities by severity
- There’s no such thing as “done” with application security
- Understanding hackers: The insider threat
- Understanding hackers: The 5 primary types of external attackers
- Want to improve the security of your application? Think like a hacker
- 5 problems with securing applications
- Why you should build security into your system, rather than bolt it on
- Why a skills shortage is one of the biggest security challenges for companies
- How should your company think about investing in security?
- How to carry out a watering hole attack: Examples and video walkthrough
- How cross-site scripting attacks work: Examples and video walkthrough
- How SQL injection attacks work: Examples and video walkthrough
- Securing the Kubernetes cluster
- How to run a software composition analysis tool
- How to run a SAST (static application security test): tips & tools
- How to run an interactive application security test (IAST): Tips & tools
- How to run a dynamic application security test (DAST): Tips & tools
- Introduction to Kubernetes security
- Key findings from ESG’s Modern Application Development Security report
- Microsoft’s Project OneFuzz Framework with Azure: Overview and concerns
- Software maturity models for AppSec initiatives
- Best free and open source SQL injection tools [updated 2021]
- Pysa 101: Overview of Facebook’s open-source Python code analysis tool
- Improving web application security with purple teams
- Open-source application security flaws: What you should know and how to spot them
- Android app security: Over 12,000 popular Android apps contain undocumented backdoors
- 13 common web app vulnerabilities not included in the OWASP Top 10