Welcome to Secumantra! We have already covered top four vulnerabilities from OWASP Top Ten 2017 edition – injection, broken authentication , sensitive data exposure and XML external entities. In this post, we’re going to talk about the number five vulnerability – Broken Access Control. Broken Access Control covers all access control issues that can make your website vulnerable….
Welcome to Secumantra! We have already covered top three vulnerabilities – injection, broken authentication and sensitive data exposure from OWASP Top Ten. In this post, we’re going to talk about the number four vulnerability in the OWASP Top Ten 2017 version – XML External Entities (XXE). OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a nonprofit foundation that works to…
Welcome to Secumantra! We are on a mission to understand OWASP Top Ten in detail and have already covered top two vulnerabilities – injection and broken authentication. In this post, we’re going to talk about the number three vulnerability in the OWASP Top Ten 2017 version which is sensitive data exposure. OWASP (Open Web Application Security…
Welcome to Secumantra! In this post, we will understand the number two vulnerability in the OWASP Top Ten 2017 version which talks about broken authentication and session management. We already know what is OWASP and OWASP Top Ten, please read more about it here. In short, OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a nonprofit foundation…
Welcome to Secumantra! We already learnt what is OWASP and OWASP Top Ten in our previous post. OWASP Foundation is one of the most respected authorities in the field of web application security and it releases OWASP Top Ten List periodically sharing most common security vulnerabilities. Introduction Injection is the number one vulnerability mentioned in…
Welcome to Secumantra! We already learnt what is OWASP and OWASP Top Ten in our previous post. Before we look each one of these items in detail, we must build our vocabulary to have basic understanding of some of the commonly used security terms. To start with, we will focus on top ten such terms…
Welcome to Secumantra! In this post we will understand what Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is and will try to understand this typical CORS error we face frequently while accessing some URL or when working with APIs. You might have seen this kind of error many times on your browser console – In short, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing…
Welcome to Secumantra! In this post we will learn how to generate a self-signed SSL certificate for your website or web service. What is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate? A self-signed certificate is an SSL certificate that has not been validated by a Certificate Authority (CA). It is created by the developer of the application locally and…
Welcome to Secumantra! We already learnt what is OWASP and OWASP Top Ten in our previous post. Just to summarize, OWASP Foundation is one of the most respected authorities in the field of web application security and it releases OWASP Top Ten List periodically sharing most common security vulnerabilities. In this post, we will understand…
Welcome to Secumantra! In this post, we will learn what OWASP is and what it offers. As we are mainly talking about web application security on this blog, let’s get familiar with OWASP and OWASP Top Ten. We will frequently refer this for next few blog posts and discuss related topics. OWASP and OWASP Top…
