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Vulnerability Assessment – Part I

by Ankit Mehta on August 10, 2011

This series blog post is going to give you some details regarding vulnerability, what is vulnerability assessment, why vulnerability assessment. It will not give you in depth idea about the vulnerability assessment but it will give you basic understating about the above mentioned topics. In computer terms vulnerability means weakness. This weakness may be due [...]

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WordPress Security

by Ankit Mehta on August 3, 2011

WordPress Security: Any CMS like WordPress can be affected by two major factors when it is in public or protected environment. Environmental Issues (Hosting Environment) Configuration Issues (Plugins, Modules) Environmental Issues: 1.       Threat: Fuzzing attack Countermeasure: Implement IPS Attackers try to attack on any server using fuzzing. Fuzzing will increase number of user request on [...]

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Web Application Security and Guidelines

by Ankit Mehta on August 3, 2011

The e-commerce applications seem to be very secure from network, but  if application core or platform itself is vulnerable, then anyone can easily hack or compromise them. Let us take an example of e-commerce portal. There are 3 ways to access this portal: User can just visit the website (Surf) User can visit and make [...]

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