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OWASP. The Open Worldwide Application Security Project [ 7] ( OWASP) is an online community that produces freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the fields of IoT, system software and web application security. [ 8][ 9][ 10] The OWASP provides free and open resources.
Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security issues within applications. It encompasses the whole application life cycle from requirements ...
A web application firewall ( WAF) is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application's known vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and improper system ...
In computing, SQL injection is a code injection technique used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker). [ 1][ 2] SQL injection must exploit a security vulnerability in an application's software, for example, when ...
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
OWASP ZAP. ZAP (short for Zed Attack Proxy), formerly known as OWASP ZAP, is an open-source web application security scanner . It is intended to be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. It has been one of the most active Open Worldwide Application Security Project ( OWASP) projects [ 3 ] and ...
Insecure direct object reference. Insecure direct object reference ( IDOR) is a type of access control vulnerability in digital security. [1] This can occur when a web application or application programming interface uses an identifier for direct access to an object in an internal database but does not check for access control or authentication.
In software development, time-of-check to time-of-use ( TOCTOU, TOCTTOU or TOC/TOU) is a class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check. TOCTOU race conditions are common in Unix between operations on the file ...