Such perilous situations demand a mechanism which takes on cyberattacks and studies them, further using the obtained knowledge to prevent such attacks. One such mechanism is a honeypot which creates a virtual trap to lure attackers. An intentionally compromised computer system allows attackers to ...
8. SQL injection attacks Structured Query Language (SQL) injectionis a common method of taking advantage of websites that depend on databases to serve their users. Clients are computers that get information from servers, and an SQL attack uses an SQL query sent from the client to a database...
Nearly all applications, web servers, and web application environments are vulnerable to buffer overflows. Environments that are written in interpreted languages, such as Java and Python, are immune to the attacks, with the exception of overflows in their interpreter. Buffer overflow attacks are typ...
allowing attackers to insert malicious payloads into application code through unvalidated user input. These attacks are among the most severe application security risks, as highlighted in the OWASP Top 10 (2021), where injection vulnerabilities were ranked as the #3 overall security risk for web ap...
DDoS Protection mitigates these attacks, differentiating between malicious and legitimate traffic, by interacting with the client, and blocking malicious traffic. Resource (application) layer attacks: These attacks target web application packets, to disrupt the transmission of data between hosts. They ...
Both types of attacks overload a server or web application to interrupt services for legitimate users. A DoS (denial-of-service) attack comes from a single location, so it's easier to detect its origin and sever the connection. DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks originate from multi...
A WAF helps protect a company’s web applications by inspecting and filtering traffic between each web application and its interactions with the internet. A WAF can help defend web applications from attacks like cross-site-scripting (XSS) and structured query language (SQL) injection. Common useful...
Botnet-based Attacks DNS Flood Attack DNS Attack Mitigation 1. DNS Cache Poisoning Attack Cache poisoning is one of the most common attacks on the web and is designed to trick users into visiting fraudulent sites when they visit legitimate ones, such as when someone visits gmail.com to check ...
Brute force works across all attack vectors described above, including password attacks, breaking weak encryption, etc., so it is not technically an attack vector. DDoS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a cyberattack against a network resource (e.g., server, website) by numerous ...
Unsanitized user input can put any web application at risk of an XSS attack. The most common language for XSS attacks is JavaScript, but XSS can affect HTML, Flash, VBScript, CSS, and other web development languages and frameworks.