Security and Vulnerabilities Category

Before a web page renders in a user’s browser, a request is made to the application host server. The server receives the request, processes it, and then sends a response to the browser. In an attack scenario, cyber-criminals use simple server request and response pairs to determine the architecture and infrastructure of the application. This […]

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a group of guidelines created by several of the large credit card corporations (e.g. Visa and Mastercard) that help organizations protect financial data. Any vendor or merchant that accepts credit card payments on a web application is subject to PCI-DSS standards and must take precautions to […]

It has been a few months since we last reported on a phishing email campaign and was covered off in our blog back then. We are seeing an increase in requests again to validate this email and due to the language and content and the call to action in it, appears to be tricking people […]

Databases are the foundation for data storage, and backups are the foundation for disaster recovery should your database be compromised and data integrity ruined. For some cyber-attacks or hardware outages, the only way to return the business to operational performance is to restore data from a previous state. When this catastrophe happens, it’s time to […]

Developers that build web applications know that many factors go into protecting a site from hackers. Whitelisting input, ensuring proper authentication features, and building frontend and backend code that checks for certain attacks are just a few ways developers can protect web applications, but using web server headers are also an effective way of protecting […]

Another phishing campaign that is attempting to have you provide your cPanel log in credentials.