Tag Archives: Web Application Security

Multiple vulnerabilities on US Army Corps of Engineers site

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Prashant

Web application popularity is at a peak these days. Almost every big or small firms, government and educational organizations, etc have global presence as well as reach in the cyber space using it. And as always, as common everywhere! Security … Continue reading →

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GitHub hacked by fellow member

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Prashant

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.According to a news published at ZDNet, GitHub was hacked yesterday by … Continue reading →

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Indian state government to implement firewall after attacks

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Prashant

Indian government sites have always faced attacks and breaches in the past. Be it the “Shadow in the cloud” cyber espoinage, only a hope glows up to learn lessons from these attacks. Recently, Andhra Pradesh state government is implementing a … Continue reading →

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Breaking the barrier: Bypassing XSS filters

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Prashant

Cross site scripting a.k.a XSS is assumed to be a low level threat and often avoided by web developers during development and deployment of web applications. But the past years passed have faced the Tsunamis of XSS, making this attacking … Continue reading →

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SQL Injection attack infects 1 million webpages

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Prashant

Security researchers from Internet Storm Center (ISC) have pointed out a mass SQL injection attack. The attack was named lilupophilupop because it redirected users to a domain with that name. At that present time (December 2011) there were only 80 … Continue reading →

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PHP, ASP.NET, Java, Python and Ruby Vulnerable to DoS Attacks

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Prashant

Security researchers Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink showed how a common flaw in the implementation of the most popular web programming languages and applications can be used to force servers to use their CPU at full capacity for several minutes, … Continue reading →

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Indian shopping scene: How safe is your online shopping?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Prashant

Online shopping has always been on a boom due to various and popular schemes by sellers. Online market enhanced in the mid of 2000 and is now ruling the market at the top now. Security issues with online shopping has … Continue reading →

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Detecting load balancers

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Prashant

Load balancing is used to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload One of the most … Continue reading →

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XSS in official Adobe site

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Prashant

Cross-site scripting aka XSS has been a common threat faced by web applications these days. That’s why its on the top 10 chart of OWASP! :) Many times while browsing websites, we had came across  this vulnerability (like the FlipKart.com and … Continue reading →

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XML encryption standard found to be unsafe

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Prashant

According to researchers at the Ruhr University of Bochum XML encryption used by IBM and Microsoft in web service applications presents certain vulnerabilities that would allow someone to intercept and decrypt the data transmitted between online servers. The official W3C XML encryption specification … Continue reading →

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