Jun 18, 2020 | Penetration Testing
This is an article in a series on Web Application Vulnerability Basics. What Is Insecure Direct Object Reference? Insecure Direct Object Reference, also known as IDOR, is a reference to an internal implementation object that is exposed to a user without proper...
Jun 11, 2020 | Penetration Testing
This is an article in a series on Web Application Vulnerability Basics. What Is Cross-Site Scripting? Cross-Site Scripting, also known as “XSS”, is a web exploit that allows an attacker to inject malicious content (such as markup, or scripts) into a web application....
May 28, 2020 | Penetration Testing
This is an article in a series on Web Application Vulnerability Basics. What Is Cross-Site Request Forgery? Cross-Site Request Forgery, also known as CSRF and XSRF, is a web application attack that tricks a victim into submitting a malicious request to a web app that...
May 21, 2020 | Penetration Testing
This is an article in a series on Web Application Vulnerability Basics. What Is a Path Traversal Attack? Path traversal, also known as directory traversal and backtracking, is an exploit that allows an attacker to access files on a web server that they are not...
Apr 2, 2020 | Penetration Testing
An Infrastructure Penetration Test is one of the best ways to discover weaknesses, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and threats located within your infrastructure. To conduct a Penetration Test, highly skilled engineers utilize the same tactics, techniques, and...
Jun 24, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Tenable, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid What is an Exim server? An Exim server is a mail transfer agent used on Linux like operating systems. Exim is a free software and used by as much as 57% of the Internet email servers. Over the past couple weeks it has been noted that a heavy amount...
Jun 10, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid What is SHA-1 and what is the history of SHA-1? Originally SHA-1 was developed as part of a U.S. government capstone project. The first version of SHA was SHA-0 and that was developed in 1993 as the Secure Hash Standard. SHA-0 was originally...
Apr 15, 2019 | Compliance, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning
By: Justin Fimlaid If you haven’t heard of it there is a new banking directive in the U.K. called the Open Banking Directive. This directive went into effect on January 13, 2018. It’s significant for U.S. based banks, because this Directive could apply...
Mar 11, 2019 | Penetration Testing, Source Code Reviews
By: Justin Fimlaid Authentication is a critical piece of any application. It’s also always the piece of security architecture that is commonly attacked, so it’s important to get it right. When we talk about authentication it’s the act of establishing that someone or...
Nov 1, 2018 | Penetration Testing
By: Eric Kobelski As a software developer turned security engineer, I continue to follow current development technologies, as it makes me more of an effective tester. One of the articles that I was reading contained an interview with one of the applications developers...
