To comply with the security audit requirements of SOC 2, PCI, and others, your application audit report should have zero open vulnerabilities. Most companies perform these audits at least annually, and the audits are more frequent for highly regulated industries such as finance and healthcare. However, 31% of critical and high vulnerabilities remain open after 180 days – according to The State of Application Security.

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) remains a continuing threat, exposing user data and application integrity. However, with proactive measures like anti-CSRF tokens and additional defenses, you can protect your applications against CSRF attacks. Let’s delve into the depths of CSRF vulnerabilities and explore practical strategies to boost your web application security.

The Mirai Botnet, famous for massive DDoS attacks, used SYN flood techniques to hack 600,000 IoT devices. Targets like KrebsOnSecurity, Lonestar cell, and Dyn. The impact cascaded across key service providers that relied on Dyn’s services, affecting entities such as Sony Playstation servers, Amazon, GitHub, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, and Twitter.

To initiate an Indusface WAS vulnerability scan on your URL, confirming ownership of the URL or domain being scanned is essential. This verification is an additional security measure to prevent unauthorized users from conducting scans on your URL or domain and revealing potential vulnerabilities. There are 3 different methods to verify your URL.

XML-RPC is a powerful and versatile protocol in the ever-evolving web development and data communication landscape. XML-RPC, which stands for Extensible Markup Language – Remote Procedure Call, provides a standardized way for software applications to communicate over the Internet. XML-RPC for PHP is affected by a remote code-injection vulnerability. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands or code in the webserver context.

Cybersecurity researchers recently uncovered a critical flaw in the widely used Apache OFBiz Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, CVE-2023-51467. The zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-51467 poses a significant threat, boasting a CVSS score of 9.8. This authentication bypass vulnerability stems from an incomplete patch for a previously disclosed Pre-auth Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2023-49070.

With an average cost of USD 4.45 million for data breaches, the gravity of website security threats cannot be overstated. These attacks result in financial losses due to customer attrition, downtime, and disruptions and undermine customer trust. The rising numbers, increasing scale, sophistication, and impact of website security threats underline the necessity for proactive prevention measures. This article delves into 5 of the most common threats today and ways to prevent them.

If your device suddenly behaves like a re-animated zombie, you might be under a Botnet attack. Also known as a zombie army, these attacks involve hijacking internet-connected devices infected with malware, controlled remotely by a single hacker. The scale of these attacks is immense, as demonstrated by a cyber assault that exploited 1.5 million connected cameras to overwhelm and take down a journalist’s website.