As we are all currently confined to a life at home during the pandemic, it has become more important than ever that our favorite web applications stay fast and reliable. Many modern web applications use web caches to keep up with these demands. While this works wonders from a performance perspective, it also opens up new attack vectors. One of these new attack vectors is called Web Cache Poisoning.
STOCKHOLM — July 14th, 2020 — Detectify, the Sweden-born cybersecurity company that offers a website vulnerability scanner powered by Crowdsource – a network of ethical hackers, today announced that it has achieved the internationally recognized standard ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification.
For continuous coverage, we push out major Detectify security updates every two weeks, keeping our tool up-to-date with new findings, features and improvements sourced from our security researchers and Crowdsource ethical hacker community. Due to confidentially agreements, we cannot publicize all security update releases here but they are immediately added to our scanner and available to all users. This post highlights a few things that we have improved in the last two weeks.
A misconfiguration is exactly what it sounds like; something that is wrongly configured. From a security perspective this can be either fairly harmless, or in the worst case devastating. We have written about misconfigurations before, both here and here. Misconfigurations may derive from many different reasons, such as: Hackers often exploit misconfigurations, since this can have a huge security impact.
We know “go hack yourself,” but what about unhack yourself? According to Laura and Tom (@TomNomNom), it means understanding how something is built and how it works, before you can know if you’ve successfully hacked it apart. There were many valuable soundbites to take from this dynamic conversation between host Laura Kankaala and guest Tom Hudson of Detectify.
It’s soon time for Summer vacation to begin, and we’ve asked our colleagues to share some of their summer learning tips for better security awareness.
