Discover what it takes to be secure on the web by reading these helpful articles. From preventing phishing attacks from using the best firewalls, there’s a lot to learn in this space.
Total 196 articles.
Trust is one of the most valuable assets of eCommerce websites. The slightest suspicion that a site is not secure can cause consumers to abandon it entirely. Consumers have a lot in common with friendships: it takes years to gain a friend’s trust, but a single serious mistake can destroy it in seconds. You don’t…
Let’s find out how you can leverage RASP to protect your applications. The reason is obvious – rampant cybersecurity breaches across the globe, giving a hard time to individuals and businesses. Now, applications are one of the favorite targets for cybercriminals, who are always on the lookout for finding vulnerabilities in your app. When they…
How do you ensure your application and infrastructure are secure from security vulnerabilities? Detectify offers a complete suite of asset inventory and monitoring solutions that include vulnerability scanning, host discovery, and software fingerprinting. Its use could help avoid unpleasant surprises, such as unknown hosts that present vulnerabilities or sub-domains that can be easily hijacked. Many…
Any online business or e-commerce website has many assets that could be easily exploited if they’re not properly secured or go unnoticed. If you own an e-commerce site, you’re probably unaware that you could have open ports, private git repositories, or exposed subdomains – to name a few – that attackers can exploit to gain…
Privilege escalation attacks occur when bad actors exploit misconfigurations, bugs, weak passwords, and other vulnerabilities that allow them to access protected assets. A typical exploit may start with the attacker first gaining access to a low-level privilege account. Once logged in, attackers will study the system to identify other vulnerabilities they can exploit further. They…
As an online business owner, there are many things you have to take care of to secure your application, provide better authentication, a nice user experience, and more. If you offer user authentication on your web applications, then there are few options you have. Traditionally, one goes for username and password authentication. But there is…
Don’t expose the .git folder, which may contain sensitive information. When you initialize and deploy your application through Git, it creates a .git folder that contains necessary information. If .git folder is accessible through a webserver or frontend over the Internet, it can potentially leak sensitive data. Worse, if you have credentials stored in some…
A reliable Virtual Private Network (VPN) forms a primary component of a small and medium business’s security perimeter. It’s like a safe tunnel between computers connected via the internet that allows them to access one another through a network. Previously, mainly organizations utilized VPNs to link their remote branches or roaming employees with their office…
know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu Reconnaissance is essential for every penetration tester or security engineer working on a pen-testing project. Knowing the right tools to find or discover specific information makes it easy for the pentester to learn more about…
It’s a scary world out there. You can’t turn on the news without seeing unrest and crime these days. Luckily, we have law enforcement that keeps us safe. Whether it is police, sheriffs, troopers, or the FBI, in the U.S., we know that when crimes are committed, we can call on these law enforcement agencies…
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