Tag: web application security
What is Penetration Testing and Why is it Important?
Penetration testing, also known as pen testing or security testing, is a form of ethical hacking. It’s an authorised cyber attack on any computer...
‘India has immense under-utilised talent in the cloud security space’
Website security is getting increasingly challenging with 'innovative' attacks emerging every day. But, thankfully, as threats increase, so do the security measures. Diksha...
Web Application Penetration Testing Using Samurai
This article introduces you to penetration-testing of Web applications. Also included is some hands-on work with a Web-testing framework called Samurai.
Penetration testing, affectionately called...
Secure Upload Methods in PHP
Here's how to deal with file upload attacks against sites developed in PHP, and how to write more secure code to prevent these attacks.
In...
Securing Apache, Part 4: Cross-site Tracing (XST) & Cross-site History Manipulation...
This series of articles addresses the Web security concerns of information security experts, systems administrators and all those who want to jump-start their careers...
Securing Apache, Part 2: XSS Injections
In the previous article in this series, we started our journey to a secured Apache by dissecting its internals. We then looked at various...
