While many people are somewhat confused about “2-factor authentication (2FA)”, which is also known as 2-factor verification, it’s a really easy concept to understand. Think of your bank’s debit card: you insert the…
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Whenever you send a request from your browser, the server responds with content along with HTTP response headers. These response headers contain alot of information like Status, Content-Encoding etc. Along with, there are…
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MyBB is one of the most widely used open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly Forum software out there. The software is recognized for its security as well as it is the most secure…
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The world of security, especially Web security, is a very complex and extensive knowledge domain to attempt to master-one where the consequences of failure can be extremely high. Practitioners can spend years studying this discipline…
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Well as you all knows that, file upload control is always at major risk for developers because there are N number of ways to bypass this control and an attacker can easily upload…
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WHM or Web Host Manager is a powerful program that permits administrative access to cPanel backend and also enables the user with more flexibility and control while managing some very popular resource intensive…
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SQL Injection is one of the many web attack mechanisms used by hackers to steal data from organizations. It is perhaps one of the most common application layer attack techniques used today. It…
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The Apache Web server is a remarkable piece of software. The basic package distributed by the Apache Software Foundation is quite complete and very powerful, and a lot of effort has gone into keeping…
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As seen from the previous articles, SQL injection has the ability to attack a web server database, compromise critical information, and expose the server and the database to a variety of malicious exploits;…
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1. Character Set: A character set is a specification that determines the set of codes used to represent the characters of a particular language or set of languages. Among the oldest character sets…
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The most prominent components of web applications that intruders will first seek to exploit are vulnerabilities within the web platform. The web platform commonly includes: Web server software (such as IIS or Apache)….
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Web application hacking is not just about using automated tools to find common vulnerabilities. It is indeed a methodological approach that, if followed, would help reveal many more flaws and potential security vulnerabilities. The…
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Once a web server and its services have been compromised, it is important to ensure that secure access can be maintained. This is usually accomplished with the aid of a web shell—a small program…
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1. Vulnerabilities There are many types of attack vectors a malicious user might use to exploit a web application and when dealing with a large web site, it is often impossible to secure…
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1. Before checking name of any website, first look for the domain extension i.e .com, .org, .co.in, .net, .in etc. The name just before extension is the DOMAIN NAME of the website. Right…
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As you all knows Joomla & WordPress are the most popular CMS used by today’s webmasters. While WordPress powers 23% of all websites on the internet, it’s not the only open source content…
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In this article we’d like to enumerate a number of suggestions/tips on how to improve security on your own WordPress website. Make sure that your are using latest version of WordPress. Your All…
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