web application security

nCircle announced the Device Profiler 4000 (DP 4000), a high performance vulnerability scanning appliance designed to support vulnerability scanning requirements including web …

When 20-year-old Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a computer science student at Montreal’s Dawson College, discovered a critical flaw in his college’s student web portal, he …

Where 2012 was a period of great innovation amongst cybercriminals and hackers – many of whom keenly develop new and hybridized attack vectors that build on a constantly …

Web security impacts applications, servers and browsers. Successful attacks against Web applications and sites means bad news for their owners, developers and users. This book …

Two critical vulnerabilities in eBay’s US website (ebay.com) have been closed by the company, preventing attackers from accessing and modifying one of its databases as …

Veracode data indicates that despite increasing security risks from third-party and externally developed software, few enterprises currently have formal testing programs in …

Coverity announced the creation of the Coverity Security Library, an open source project available through GitHub and Maven to help developers easily fix cross-site scripting …

A new web application attack report by FireHost offers an impression of the current internet security climate and provides statistical analysis of 15 million cyber attacks …

Over the last few years, small to medium businesses has seen a huge increase in website attacks. Website owners are seeking for affordable and effective tools to protect their …

Web application security incidents have become increasingly common and expensive, with the majority of companies experiencing at least one breach in the last 18 months and …

Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, …

Etsy, the popular online marketplace for handcrafted and vintage goods, has announced its own bug bounty program, which will reward researchers with money and goods for …