Preventing website vulnerabilities with auditing

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Unsecured APIs
Modern applications now consist mainly of client applications and rich API interfaces accessible via JavaScript in the browser or from mobile applications. They can work via SOAP/XML, REST/JSON, RPC, GWT, etc. These APIs are often not protected and are also designed with many bugs that lead to vulnerabilities.

A site vulnerability test is a proactive process that allows you to detect weak points, understand how secure the site is, and what attacks it is threatened with. Based on the information received, you can develop a web resource protection plan.

How to find a vulnerability on a website? A medical mail list comprehensive security check includes the following steps:

Password brute force attack.

Embedding XML entities.

Search for elements with known vulnerabilities.

Checking for remote execution of arbitrary code.

Identifying vulnerabilities in server components and the website's web environment.

Checking for code injections.

Attempts to bypass the authentication system.

Detecting CSRF/XSS vulnerabilities on a website.

Attempts to hijack privileged accounts or their sessions.

Checking the probability of Remote File Inclusion / Local File Inclusion file injections.

Checking for open redirects and redirects to other web resources.

Scan directories using brute force and hacking through Google index.

Checking all forms on the site: registration, login, search and others.

Checking the ability to openly obtain confidential data.

Checking for Race Condition attacks - errors in the design of multithreaded systems and applications.

The audit is conducted using vulnerability scanners - specialized programs that check the site and analyze typical weak points. Based on the data obtained, a conclusion is made about the overall security of the site.

There are 3 types of scanners:

Network . They conduct remote testing via a connection to network resources. This type of scanner is the most popular.

Passive . They receive information from network traffic, but at the same time, unlike network ones, they reduce the scanner's impact on vulnerable areas.

Local . Installed directly on the node being checked and allow you to obtain the most reliable data. Searching for vulnerabilities on a site involves comparing file attributes.

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Alexander Kuleshov
Alexander Kuleshov
General Director of Sales Generator LLC
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Best Website Vulnerability Scanners Online
A fairly common type of software now is web application scanners. These tools can be both paid and free. Each has a certain set of characteristics and checks different types of vulnerability of websites online. Some scanners are only published in the OWASP Top Ten (Open Web Application Security Project), others conduct much more in-depth black-box testing.

Next, we will consider 7 of the most common and tested scanners. Each of them was tested on independent points of two platforms (.NET and php): premium.pgabank.com and php.testsparker.com.