web application security
Top cybercrime weapon: Web exploit toolkits
HP identified a significant increase in the volume of organized cybercrime targeting data centers and networks, which can lead to financial and data loss. While there were …
Vulnerabilities in common web applications escalate
A new Cenzic report reveals widespread Web application vulnerabilities, with 2,155 discovered – a third of which have both no known solution and an exploit code publicly …
Massive SQL injection attack compromises 380,000 URLs
A massive SQL injection attack campaign has been spotted by Websense researchers, and the number of unique URLs affected by it has risen from 28,000 when first detected …
McAfee.com filled with vulnerabilities
Discovering that your site is chock full of security vulnerabilities must be embarrassing for any company, but is surely doubly so when you are a company offering to secure …
Web application security trends and issues
In this podcast, Mandeep Khera from Cenzic talks about web application security trends and issues. Web applications are the weakest link in the security chain – and it …
Cenzic at a glance
John Weinschenk, President & CEO of Cenzic, talks about the company and their product line. Cenzic is a provider of software, managed service, and cloud security products …
IronBee versus ModSecurity
After spending a couple of weeks talking about IronBee to anyone willing to listen, I have assembled a list of commonly asked questions. Not unexpectedly, the question that …
Most sites are exposed to at least one vulnerability each day
The average website has serious vulnerabilities more than nine months of the year and data leakage has over taken cross site scripting as the most common website …
Free e-book: Web Application Security for Dummies
Qualys announced that it has published a new comprehensive free guide on Web Application Scanning (WAS) to help readers understand web application security – including …
Web application scanning on a new level
Qualys announced the release of QualysGuard WAS 2.0 with several major enhancements to help customers catalog their web applications on a global scale and scan them for …
IronBee: Creating an open source web application firewall
Qualys announced IronBee, a new open source project to provide the next-generation of web application firewall (WAF) technology. Led by the team who designed and built …
400,000 e-mail addresses stolen in Irish job website breach
Names and e-mail addresses of some 400,000 job seekers have been harvested by hackers who have breached the RecruitIreland.com site and its systems. The site has been taken …
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