Christoforos Ntantogian, Stefanos Malliaros, and Christos Xenakis from the Department of Digital Systems in the University of Piraeus (Greece) conducted research on password hashing in open-source web platforms including the most popular content management systems (CMS) and web application frameworks. The results published in their…
What Is OS Command Injection
OS command injection (operating system command injection or simply command injection) is a type of an injection vulnerability. The payload injected by the attacker is executed as operating system commands. OS command injection attacks are possible only if the web application code includes operating system…
What Are Email Injection Attacks
It is common practice for web pages and web applications to implement contact forms, which in turn send email messages to the intended recipients. Most of the time, such contact forms set headers. These headers are interpreted by the email library on the web server…
Current Cybersecurity Market Strong: What’s Driving It?
Cybersecurity is a big business and it’s going to get bigger. Individual users, small business owners, and IT professionals at international corporations know that threats occur every day. Staying ahead of those threats is the only way to protect proprietary data, network integrity, and network…
REST API Security Testing with Acunetix
Security vulnerabilities in RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) introduce the same risks as security issues in websites and other web applications: sensitive data theft, manipulation, and more. Therefore, it is very important to know how to test them efficiently. However, some characteristics of REST APIs…
Test Your XSS Skills Using Vulnerable Sites
Finding and proving application security vulnerabilities requires a lot of skill. However, many of them are easy to exploit. If you want to write better code, you should know how others may prey on your mistakes. We compiled a Top-10 list of web applications that…
What Is a Buffer Overflow
A buffer overflow vulnerability occurs when you give a program too much data. The excess data corrupts nearby space in memory and may alter other data. As a result, the program might report an error or behave differently. Such vulnerabilities are also called buffer overrun….
Authentication Bypass in WP Live Chat
WP Live Chat for WordPress is a very popular plugin used by many companies to provide online support. Currently, it has more than 50000 active installations. Very recently, researchers from Alert Logic found an authentication bypass vulnerability in this plugin. This vulnerability may be used…
A Typo Can Make You an Administrator
You are a developer. You put a lot of effort into making sure that your code is safe. You never trust user input, you use the best security-related development libraries. And then you make one small typo and everything is ruined. This is not fiction….