Its All About Ethics
As more and more businesses adopt a mobile-first approach, mobile applications are becoming conventional in the industry. With them, they bring a lot of doubts and questions regarding the security they offer. A lot of apps involve collecting user data and hence it is required to ensure the security of the data in compliance with…
Every year, a hundred thousand APIs become available on the internet. API (application programming interface) is nothing but a language used among various applications. Studies show that API abuses will become the most common type of web application-related attacks, which is exactly why securing them holds the utmost importance for a business entity. API security…
What is a hardware firewall? A hardware firewall is a physical device much like a server that filters the traffic going to a computer. While a user would normally plug a network cable directly into a computer or server, with a hardware firewall, the cable is plugged into the firewall first. The firewall sits between…
Penetration testing is performed on Win 7, Win Server 2008, Ubuntu form Kali being the attacker. All the Penetration test is performed on the Virtual machine by creating a test lab environment setup Win7, Win Server 2008 and Ubuntu on one base machine while Kali installed on a different base machine. In accordance with the…
Would you readily give your residential address to a stranger? No? Aren’t you extra cautious while opening an email from an unknown sender? Yes? Good! How about extending the same sense of protection to your smart phone while downloading apps? In both these instances, you are necessarily safeguarding your home and yourself from prying eyes….
While providing consultancy on cyber security, I am often asked a question by bank’s senior IT management — Why our application VAPT should be different than any other application VAPT? Isn’t it just a web app after all? I really wish if that was true, but it is not. It is a misconstrued notion in…
I guess most of us know why a vulnerability assessment and penetration testing needs to be performed for web apps or mobile apps. Lately I had been asked by IT product development companies to put together the most critical drivers for this. I thought I would sum it up and share for benefit of everyone…
Did you know that a mobile application, on an average has 9 vulnerabilities? Multiply that by the average number of installed applications (26.2) and you end up with an average of 235.8 vulnerabilities. In simple words, there are 235.8 ways for hackers to get inside your phone. Scary, huh? Hackers can get into your mobile…
We all know that there are 3 distinct pillars of software testing – functional testing, security testing and performance testing. There are multiple tools out there, to make tester’s life easy. While these automations are a important, there are few lacuna that a tester should be aware of, and this is especially true in case…
Year 2018 was full of cyber-attacks and the most serious news was about well-orchestrated cyber-attacks on banking industry. No matter how much awareness is generated, unfortunately the banking industry seems to be waking up only upon hearing about an attack and becomes sluggish on cyber security. While providing consultancy to many banks, in different geographical…