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OWASP or Open Web Security Project is a non-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software and web applications. The organization publishes a list of top web security vulnerabilities based on the data from various security organizations. The web security vulnerabilities are prioritized depending on exploitability, detectability and impact on software. Exploitability – What is needed to exploit the security vulnerability? Highest exploitability when the attack needs only web browser and lowest being advanced programming and tools. Detectability – How easy is it to detect the threat? Highest being the information displayed on URL, Form or Error message and lowest being source code. Impact or Damage – How much damage will be done if the security vulnerability is exposed or attacked? Highest being complete system crash and lowest being nothing at all. The main aim of OWASP Top 10 is to educate the developers, designers, managers, archite...
Have you ever received emails from unknown sources claiming to offer insurance, lottery tickets or advertisements? You may have noticed that such emails always have a link that they prompt you to click. What lies on the other side of the link can be any one of many ways to phish users into giving away their important login credentials. You obviously don’t want any confidential information such as credit card numbers or account passwords to be misused or imagine a scenario where you have downloaded a file which turned out to be malware and now your system is infected with nasty ransomware. In this article, you’ll find effective tips that can help you stay secure online. #1. Set Robust Passwords The most basic mistake that users make is setting easily guessed passwords so they don’t forget them and the attackers happily use this as a weakness by figuring out commonly used passwords. Don’t make it easy for hackers to get access to your online accoun...
You might already have heard the news: Google has more or less won the browser wars as Microsoft has started to rebuild its Edge web browser right from scratch. However, this time the company will make use of the open-source Chromium code which underpins many other web browsers including, Opera Brave Vivaldi Google Chrome (of course) And since Microsoft is going to do it right from the ground up, it is not a stretch to think that Microsoft is actually switching to a completely different (and perhaps better) web browser rendering engine. With that out of the way, you may be wondering, What is a web browser engine? Moreover, how does a web browser’s engine affect a given online consumer’s web browsing experience? In this guide, we will go through all the necessary details that you need to know about in order to really differentiate between different web browsers. You see, whenever you are in the process of selecting a web browser or changing a web browser, you a...
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