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Author Archives Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

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Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki
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Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki (also known as tonid) is a Primary Cybersecurity Writer at Invicti, focusing on Acunetix. A journalist, translator, and technical writer with 25 years of IT experience, Tomasz has been the Managing Editor of the hakin9 IT Security magazine in its early years and used to run a major technical blog dedicated to email security.

2021 – the year in review

Web Security Zone | December 27, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

As 2021 comes to an end, it is time to sum up the year to see what it meant for Acunetix, Invicti, and the web application security industry. The rise of Invicti 2021 was the year when Acunetix became a brand of Invicti Security. The…

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Critical alert – Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228 in Log4j) – possibly the biggest impact vulnerability ever

Web Security Zone | December 13, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

On December 10, 2021, a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Log4j framework, which is commonly used by most Java installations. The vulnerability, dubbed Log4Shell or LogJam, was identified in the NVD as CVE-2021-44228 and, to quote one of Acunetix original creators and primary…

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The false sense of security in the cloud

Web Security Zone | December 2, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

Businesses like yours have different reasons to move to the cloud. Some do it primarily to save on hardware. Others go further and outsource services to reduce the need for their own resources. Those who want to outsource administration and related services often believe that…

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Secure coding practices – the three key principles

Web Security Zone | November 29, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

All security vulnerabilities are the result of human error. Most web application vulnerabilities and API security issues are introduced by developers. Therefore, the best approach to building secure applications is to do all that is possible to avoid introducing such errors in the first place instead of…

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Code security is not enough!

Web Security Zone | November 22, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

Recently, I came across an article that referred to web application security as code security and I hope it was just a slip of the tongue. If you really think web application security is the same as code security, you are leaving a gaping hole…

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What is website security – how to protect your website from hacking

Web Security Zone | November 18, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

You protect your every office computer with an antivirus. You install firewalls to prevent unwanted access to your network. But what do you do to secure your website? And what can happen if it’s not secured? This article is aimed at website owners that are…

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You are the only one who can secure and protect your web applications

Web Security Zone | November 15, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

Security-related vocabulary includes a lot of words with imprecise meanings. Two such terms that give me a headache when used in the web application security context are the verbs to secure and to protect. But this headache is nothing compared to the one I get…

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What is continuous web application security?

Web Security Zone | November 1, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

The term continuous security in the context of web application security is best understood when paired with well-known terms continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Continuous security means that security is part of a continuous process – DevSecOps or, even better, SecDevOps. The confusion around…

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Paul’s Security Weekly: Securing iframes using the sandbox attribute

Web Security Zone | October 7, 2021 by Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki

Our Senior Security Researcher, Benjamin Daniel Mussler, has been invited to the Security Weekly podcast to talk about the security of iframes and, in particular, how to secure iframes using the sandbox attribute. Benjamin first talked about how traditional framesets have become completely obsolete but…

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