While traditional penetration testing (pen testing) has long been the go-to method for identifying security gaps in a organization’s network and web application, a new approach has emerged: ...

Computers are vulnerable to viruses and malicious software that can cause damage to your files and software, compromise your security and privacy and spread to other computers without your knowledge.

Web applications often handle vast amounts of data, from personal user details to sensitive corporate information. As these applications grow in complexity and importance, they also become primary ...

I’m writing to tell you about our new Watcher tool for web-app security auditing and testing. Watcher is a plug-in for Eric Lawrence’s Fiddler proxy aimed at helping developers and testers find ...

Testing browser security features is important to keeping your web application safe and operable. To effectively test browser security features and ensure compatibility with updates, you need to use ...

A DAST tool is an application security (AppSec) solution that in essence uses similar techniques that a cybercriminal would use to find potential weaknesses in web applications, while they are in use.

When we think about how to protect our information systems against attack, the typical things that come to mind are firewalls, encryption and applying the latest software patches. These technical ...

I have already written about the potential benefits and pitfalls of bug bounties, but some numbers from the above-mentioned reports appeared interesting to me — highlighting previously unobvious ...

Web application security is the practice of protecting websites, online services, and applications from cyber threats that exploit vulnerabilities in their code, configurations, or design. It involves ...

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