web application security

Cyber attackers taking advantage of legitimate online services is not a new thing, and “online clipboard” Pastebin.com is often used to anonymously leak stolen …

2014 was a year of high-profile hacks for businesses around the world. From The Home Depot breach to the recent Sony data leak, it seemed like as soon as one data breach was …

Brakeman is an open source vulnerability scanner specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It statically analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at …

It’s pretty difficult to make information security predictions, and even more difficult to verify them afterwards: we can only judge the effectiveness of information …

A programming flaw in the code of popular online marketplace AliExpress, which connects small Chinese businesses with international buyers and has over 7.7 million registered …

Google has open sourced another security tool: it’s called Firing Range, and it’s an effective testing ground for a variety of automated web application security …

Administrators of sites that run Drupal 7, and have not yet updated to version 7.32 or have done so later than 7 hours after the public revelation of the highly critical SQL …

Admins of sites that run Drupal 7 are advised to update to the latest version of the platform – version 7.32 – because it fixes a critical SQL injection …

851,322 individuals who used Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) will soon be receiving notices that they information …

The developer team behind the popular open-source content management system Joomla is urging users to update the software to the latest version – v3.3.6 (or v3.2.7 for …

A recurring XSS bug in Amazon’s Kindle Library, i.e. the “Manage your Kindle” web application, can be exploited by attackers looking to hijack users’ …

When well-known lawyer and Stanford law lecturer Jonathan Mayer was invited to teach a course on government surveillance on Coursera, the popular online website offering free …