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Pentest 101: How to Dodge the Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Directory Traversal might not be considered as a high-impact vulnerability but it can be a stepping stone to information leak and shell upload vulnerability. The lack of directory traversal security can allow an attacker to manipulate the file path to gain unauthorized access to different files in the directory. You need penetration testing to detect the directory traversal vulnerability. This video is a short explanation of how the file traversal vulnerability can be exploited, and how you can avoid it.

Pentest 101: Detect and Prevent Clickjacking with Penetration Testing

Clickjacking is an interface-based attack where the hacker manipulates the CSS of a website to insert a malicious iframe, button, or link which hides behind a seemingly harmless button of link. It takes the user to a malicious page and triggers some unsolicited action on the user's behalf. A clickjacking attack may be used to trigger a malware download, loss of content, or money, among other things. You can detect it with the help of penetration testing.

Pentest 101: SQL Injection | What is SQLi? | How to Avoid It?

SQL injection is listed in both OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and top 25 vulnerabilities by SANS. An attacker can hijack your database, delete critical information, or create a persistent backdoor by exploiting an SQL injection. 😰 You need penetration testing to detect and fix this critical vulnerability. Astra Security presents a crisp exploration of SQL injections - how they occur, how they affect a user, different categories of SQLi vulnerabilities, and the way in which you can avoid them.

Astra Login Recorder - A Better Way to Secure Websites

Gone are the days when organizations used to run and scale their offline businesses at three-toed sloth’s speed. The inception of the Internet turned into a really pervasive and groundbreaking force in our life, with millions of Websites serving billions of web pages to people on a daily basis. Through various advancements, web and SaaS applications have become intelligent, dynamic and asynchronous.

Introducing our new Security Scan Platform

Today we’ve arrived at another significant achievement at Astra Security. After months of preparation, development, and design, we’ve officially launched our new Security Scan platform. From addition of more security tests to new dashboard design, the new platform will make pentesting a breeze for you. Our new and simple to utilize UI guarantees that your dev and security groups can rapidly and safely associate with pentest discoveries and resolve them easily.

Olivier Trupiano (Founder of Signalement) Reviews Astra's Security Audit & VAPT

Signalement is well renowned professional alert system & a whistleblowing platform based out of France. They have more than 100 private and public customers. Security is one of the major concerns as they store lot of sensitive & personal information. Astra team helped Signalement on the security front by performing detailed security audit & helping them to patch the vulnerabilities. Also, our firewall & malware scan ensures real time protection of the sites from any malware attack.

Contact Form 7 (5.3.1 & below) Vulnerable To Unrestricted File Upload

Before you start reading the description, please log in to your WordPress Admin panel & update all the plugins. Contact Form 7 version 5.3.1 and below were found to be vulnerable to unrestricted file upload vulnerability. This issue has been reported by security researchers at Astra Security. By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could simply upload files of any type, bypassing all restrictions placed regarding the allowed uploadable file types on a website.

Astra's Security Audit & VAPT Review by Arun Bansal (Founder & CEO of ServerGuy)

99.7% websites have atleast one vulnerability. Astra Security helps you find your website's weaknesses and patch them up before it hurts your business. ServerGuy is well renowned premium managed Magento, WordPress Hosting Platform, offering lightning-fast and scalable infrastructure.