Vulnerabilities
Host Header Injection: Risks and Protection for Small Businesses
Attackers manipulate the HTTP Host header to bypass security controls, cache poison servers and steal session tokens without touching your application code.
web security
Everything Cipher Insider has reported about web security: 8 stories, newest first. Part of our Vulnerabilities coverage.
Vulnerabilities
Apache Struts Vulnerabilities: Debunking 6 Common Security Myths
Misconfigurations and legacy plugin usage create wider attack surfaces than the core framework code, shifting risk away from simple patching.
Vulnerabilities
How IDOR Vulnerabilities Work: Step-by-Step Exploitation
IDOR exploits occur when an application trusts the user-supplied identifier without verifying that the user owns the associated resource, allowing access to any record.
Data Breaches
Data Scraping Myths: What Automated Collection Really Reveals
Automated data extraction rarely involves hacking; it exploits public interfaces and poor access controls to harvest vast quantities of exposed information without triggering alarms.
Threat Intelligence
How Token Theft Works: The Mechanics of Session Hijacking
Attackers rarely crack passwords; they steal the valid session tokens that systems trust implicitly, bypassing authentication checks entirely.
Vulnerabilities
Dynamic Application Security Testing Explained: How Black-Box Scanning Works
DAST scans running applications from the outside, finding flaws that static code analysis often misses because it cannot see the live execution environment.
Vulnerabilities
Prevent NoSQL Injection: Validation, Operators and Query Builders
String escaping fails against NoSQL injection because the database interprets input as code objects rather than plain text data.
Vulnerabilities
Command Injection Explained: How Code Runs Outside Its Box
When an application fails to separate your input from its instructions, your data becomes executable code that bypasses standard security controls.