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A blog by experts of penetration testing and other security assessments.

Understanding Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI)

Web applications play a vital role in delivering dynamic content to users. To achieve this, developers often utilize server-side templates, which provide a powerful and consistent way to generate dynamic web pages. However, along with this power comes the risk of Server-Side Template Injection ...

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Introducing SamuraiWTF 5.3: A Powerhouse for Web App Pen Testing

We are thrilled to announce the release of SamuraiWTF (Web Training Framework) version 5.3! This ...

12 Days of ZAPmas - Day 12 Testing a new Content-Security-Policy

Testing | application security | OWASP | web application security

What is the CSP? The Content-Security-Policy (CSP) is a widely recommended control and is ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 9 - Automated Scanning and ATTACK mode

application security | OWASP | automation | scanning

Automated scanning against an application is useful. It’s a faster and less labor-intensive way to ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 7 - API Testing with Postman and ZAP

application security | OWASP | API

If you’ve done any significant amount of API development, there’s a good chance you’ve used ...

Twelve Days of ZAPMAS - Day 6 - Passive Flaw Detection and Using the HUD

application security | OWASP | web application security | scanning

One of the awesome things about a security-focused interception proxy like ZAP is its ability to ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 5 - Scope and Contexts

application security | OWASP | web application security | scope

Normally I don’t like having my interception proxy hide out-of-scope traffic. Doing so creates a ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 4 - Fuzzing for Injection

web penetration testing | application security | web application security | how-to

I briefly introduced fuzzing earlier in the series, citing it as the second primitive upon which ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 3 - CYA (Cover Your Auth)

application security | OWASP | web application security | how-to

Access control is one of the crucial elements to application security. The vast majority of ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow

Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow - Replaying and Tampering with Requests Fuzzing and tampering are like ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 1 - Setting Up ZAP

web penetration testing | application security | OWASP | web application security | how-to

This holiday season, I’m going to run down some of the ins and outs of working with OWASP Zed ...

Coming Soon - Twelve Days of ZAPmas

Training | web penetration testing | application security | web application security

In December of 2018, I published a twelve-day series of cross-site scripting tips, tricks, and ...

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