Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
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The internet is full of cool designs, apps, and websites. However, it also houses billions of hackers who want a piece of the successful company’s “pie”. Fraudsters hack websites to spread viruses, steal valuable data, publish confidential information, and break into corporate webs. This is why the insufficient security of web applications is fraught with economic, reputational, and other types of risks for owners.
Today we will consider the popular types of threats and how to get protected.
Obtaining personal data or authorizing someone else's accounts is still a common problem.
Many websites don’t comply with password complexity requirements. For example, when the number of input attempts is not limited. A fraudster can hack an account through a regular brute-force attack on passwords.
Hackers often use input fields to inject grammatically acceptable constructs that violate application logic. This allows malicious code to be injected into applications based on SQL, NoSQL, or LDAP.
Injections are especially common when the site doesn’t have restrictions on what the user enters in the fields and forms. Malicious code that gets into an application in this way can provide a hacker with access to confidential information or administrator rights.
Frameworks, servers, applications themselves can be vulnerable and insecure. The use of unsafe components leads to information theft and widespread attacks.
These attacks usually take place in an injection format. The attackers inject a script into the victim's website page, which runs every time you visit the site. One of the simplest examples is when a user clicks on an insecure link, enters his credentials from social media, and falls into the hands of hackers. Most modern browsers analyze site scripts and warn of possible threats.
It’s not enough to release the code without errors. Attackers can also target software from external publishers that you use.
Vulnerabilities can be in third-party libraries and frameworks. Hackers are aware of known vulnerabilities in popular libraries. And sometimes vulnerabilities are deliberately inserted into external components.
A minor incident can be part of a larger attack. Failure to receive and store complete information prevents the identification of potential risks and threats. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate even those incidents that initially seem trivial.
The best solution would be to entrust the development of the site to professionals who, at every stage, verify the security of the web application and discuss it after launch. You can find some on the TechReviewer website.
It is impossible to guarantee 100% security of web applications. But on the other hand, you can minimize risks with the help of a real team of experts and, of course, our advice.
