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Risk Rating Methodology

Discovering vulnerabilities is important, but being able to estimate the associated risk to the business is just as important. Early in the life cycle, one may...

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Variable Manipulation

What best practices I should remember while designing login pages? From login pages, users should be sent to a page for authentication. Once authenticated, the user...

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Injection Flaws

An injection flaw is a vulnerability which allows an attacker to relay malicious code through an application to another system. This can include compromising both backend...

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Improper Error Handling

Improper handling of errors can introduce a variety of security problems for a web site. The most common problem is when detailed internal error messages such...

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What is HttpOnly?

According to a daily blog article by Jordan Wiens, “No cookie for you!”, HttpOnly cookies were first implemented in 2002 by Microsoft Internet Explorer developers for Internet...

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How to Write Insecure Code

In the interest of ensuring that there will be a future for hackers, criminals, and others who want to destroy the digital future, this paper captures...

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Hibernate

Since ORM architecture isn’t obvious, this document will explain some important things you need to know in order to analyze a Hibernate application in a security...

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Fuzz testing or Fuzzing

Fuzz testing or Fuzzing is a Black Box software testing technique, which basically consists in finding implementation bugs using malformed/semi-malformed data injection in an automated fashion. A trivial example...

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Double Encoding

This attack technique consists of encoding user request parameters twice in hexadecimal format in order to bypass security controls or cause unexpected behavior from the application....

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Component Analysis

Modern software is assembled using third-party and open source components, glued together in complex and unique ways, and integrated with original code to provide the desired...

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Broken Access Control

Access control, sometimes called authorization, is how a web application grants access to content and functions to some users and not others. These checks are performed...

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CSRF abuses

CSRF abuses the trust relationship between browser and server. This means that anything that a server uses in order to establish trust with a browser (e.g., cookies, but also...

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Access Control And Authorization

Access Control, also known as Authorization — is mediating access to resources on the basis of identity and is generally policy-driven (although the policy may be...

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Validation for XSS Protection

Request validation is a feature in ASP.NET that examines HTTP requests and determines whether they contain potentially dangerous content. This check adds protection from mark-up or code...

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Follina vulnerability

The Follina vulnerability represents a significant risk within Microsoft Office products. It enables remote code execution (RCE) attacks, demanding immediate attention as Microsoft has released security...

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XML External Entity attack

An XML External Entity attack is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This attack occurs when XML input containing a reference to an external...

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Using freed memory

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash. The use of heap allocated memory after it has been freed or deleted...

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Use of hard-coded password

The use of a hard-coded password increases the possibility of password guessing tremendously. Consequences Authentication: If hard-coded passwords are used, it is almost certain that malicious...

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