Author: Rebecca Deck

During application testing, most SQL injection attacks are mundane. Often, when there is one SQL injection, there are many–and they are easily exploitable with tools like sqlmap. Occasionally, an application is largely protected against SQL injection, but something interesting happens on a test. A tester manually validates a SQL injection vulnerability based on server responses,… Read more »

Identify the Common Ways S3 Buckets Can be Misconfigured According to 2017 report, 93 percent of organizations are using some form of cloud computing. This increase brings new threats that many organizations’ current security processes may not be equipped to handle. One of these issues is the use of Amazon S3 buckets (AWS S3) with… Read more »

Turn Your Software Development Security into a Repeatable Engineering Process Companies have long viewed application security testing as a black art that’s dependent upon a small number of experts wielding arcane tools to find vulnerabilities and develop exploits. However, as the velocity of software development increases, the old way of running security tests becomes less… Read more »

A key aspect of testing mobile applications is the ability to observe and modify network traffic. Learn how to use a router with modified firmware to perform HTTP/HTTPS-based traffic interception. 3 Methods for Intercepting Traffic 1. ARP cache poisoning Testers can use man-in-the-middle tools such as Bettercap to force mobile device traffic to a proxy… Read more »