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Please recommend scanner that allows to find XSS and SQL injections vulnerabilities for Web Application [closed]

We develop Web Application: Platform is Redhat 6.3/6.4 Presentation tier is JSF2 Persistence tier is Hibernate Server is JBoss 4 Database is PostgreSQL 9.0.13. We want to run scanner during our ...
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Web application security standards/certificates

I'm currently working on Web application/service that (hopefully) will be used in a wide variety of ways. Of course I'm looking to attracting some commercial users as well, and as we all know, they ...
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SQL Injection - Extracting database data from the page content

I have a question I am hoping someone could help with.. I am in the process of writing an SQL Injection tool from scratch (I am aware there are already excellent tools out there such as SQL Map, but ...
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IT Security professional or software developer.. which is a better career option? [closed]

I am a fresher out of college. I have completed my masters in computer applications. Currently i am working as a java developer in an IT services firm ( a pretty big one). I am good at development ...
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Is it illegal to test a website and report the security bugs to them? [closed]

I am doing testing on some websites and I have found some serious bugs in those sites. I am not sure if this is legal or not. Is it ever legal? How can I find out if it's legal where I live? What ...
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What dangerous characters need to be filtered from user input prior to use in a DB2 SQL query?

I'm looking to fully understand how to properly filter/escape dangerous characters from user input that will be interpolated into a DB2 SQL query. The sanitization routing that I'm analyzing works ...
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SQL Injection How to inject Clean/Rest URLS

I have a question I'm hoping you could help me with? Unclean url's: http://example.com/index.php?page=foo http://example.com/products?category=2&pid=25 ...
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Black box testing javascript MVC web applications

I want to test a web application that has been built using the backbone.js framework. Currently I have used a few tools for crawling and testing without any luck. When crawling the website they can ...
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How I add cookie to w3af for authenticated attacks?

Can anyone explain this in steps to me? Lets just say I clicked to OWASP Top 10 scan profile and entered url. Next I need to add cookies or authentication values to w3af (form based auth.). How? ...
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Create a page to experiment with SQL injection [closed]

This semester, I have taken a course on Information Security and my project for this course is to implement an SQL injection to obtain admin privileges. For this I first download Havij software ...
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Web app penetration testing

I have a static website which needs to be pentested. It has only got one form which updates some data on the server and i have pentested it with some blind PHP and SQL injection. The site is hosted on ...
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Pentesting file Upload feature

The file(resume) upload feature is accepting any sort of files. I have uploaded the PHP shell into it. How do I again access to that uploaded file? I'm bruteforcing the web directory to check for ...
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GWAPT - Training Experiences/Questions [closed]

I'm heavily considering the GWAPT certificate, I'm wondering: http://www.giac.org/certification/web-application-penetration-tester-gwapt Has anyone done the online version of it? What is it like? Is ...
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What type of attacks can be carried on for an web application [closed]

My company has designed an web application and its going to be hosted soon, I would like to know what type of attacks can be carried on the web application to test the security of my web application ...
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How do small businesses handle web app security?

Everything on Owasp's top 10 list, how do current small businesses (< 1000 employees) handle web application security, along with mobile security of their applications? Do they care about info/app ...
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Efficient way for finding XSS vulnerabilities?

Manual (reliable) way: Put string containing characters that have special meaning in HTML into some parameter of HTTP request, look for this string in HTTP response (and possibly) in other places ...
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What is this hardened computer called? [closed]

After undergoing a security audit, it was suggested that a hardened computer be placed in the DMZ to run firewall software. What is this hardened computer called?
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How to pentest Flash file on webapp with alowscriptaccess=samedomain?

In the course of a pentest I found a Flash movie file (swf) that loads another Flash movie through loadMovie. The HTML is this: <embed width="388" height="350" ...
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Web application penetration testing resources? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Best resources to learn web security attacks? I'm very interested in web application penetration testing. I went over every good Youtube video on that subject and most ...
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Should companies use Crowd Source Audit Platform for Manual Penetration Test?

As a CIO, CISO, CTO or Sys Admin, would you use a crowd sourced platform for penetration tests in order to improve your security issues? LE: So most of you guys downgrade, and said it's wrong to have ...
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Securely Store Credentials for Web Application Services in Apache

We are running a web application in python using wsgi with apache2, and must submit to a penetration test. The testers will be exploring the potential for damage if the attackers gain shell access as ...
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Example of attack trees in the web application security analysis

Here I am again asking for some informations about attack trees usage in web application analysis. For my master thesis I decided to study the usage of this formalism in order to reppresent attacks ...
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How can I execute a XSS with these conditions?

I am trying to learn penetration testing and I have downloaded a vulnerable application called "Bodgeit Store". I have finished almost all the challenges except one which is to execute a Cross-Site ...
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What fraction of vulnerabilities does black-box pentesting find?

Black-box penetration testing is one to check a web application for vulnerabilities. It can find some vulnerabilities, but not all. What fraction of vulnerabilities does black-box pentesting find, ...
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question for pentesters: PHP proc_open() in safe_mode

Can anybody explain to me how proc_open() is affected when PHP is running in safe_mode? As far as i have noticed, the command to execute is appended to a '/' - is there anything else and is it ...
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Android Pen Testing

I have been pen testing a random android app that uses POST method to send data to a remote server using HTTPS. I have set up a proxy and am able to intercept the traffic, however the POST method ...
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Where can I find exploit code?

I am doing VA/PT on a sample web application. I run the nessus scanner and I found some high severity problems. It is related to HP System Management Homepage. The CVE numbers are: 2010-1917, ...
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how an iframe can cause xsrf?

I know how a form tag is prone to CSRF which does not use any token (or any other challenge-response mechanism) but I was wondering how an iFrame can be used to cause XSRF attack and what would be the ...
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Securely building a local pentest lab in a VM

I'd like to set up OWASP WebGoat or a similar vulnerable web app in a VM (probably VirtualBox on Linux). For convenience's sake, I'd like to get it running on one of the primary machines I use (say, a ...
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How to improve as a security expert

I'm a professional software developer with a high interest in web application security. I'd say that I probably have a better understanding of the security of web applications than the average ...
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What are some good resources for learning how to hack my website? [closed]

Note: This is for my personal use. I'm not going to hack someone else's website. I have several websites, and I'd like to learn how to hack them so that I can secure them. Where can I find some good ...
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What should be included in the ground rules for an attack review?

I've drafted some ground rules for a call for adversarial attack-review. I've tried to cover the following topics: Link to the policy that I want to enforce. Link to a minimal testbed and ...
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Is there a typical step-by-step A-Z process for testing a Web site for possible exploits?

I'm interested less in the tools of the trade (there are many questions here already about that), and I am interested more in the process by which you would go about using those tools. So for ...
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Question on information retrieved from systems that could potentially lead to exploits

Usually it is advised, when one wants to secure an application, to "provide" as little information, or better yet, no information at all to unauthorized (possibly malicious) users. I'm thinking of ...
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How to perform penetration testing on a Flex application?

Possible Duplicate: What tools are there to inspect Flash SWF files? I have decompiled it, verified the source. All seems fine. Appscan also is not able to find anything in this case. But I ...
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Are there any tools for automated penetration testing of Silverlight applications?

I'd like to find a tool to assist with automated penetration testing of Silverlight applications, in a similar vein to AppScan for webapps. Specifically, I'm looking for a tool that can cope with ...
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Security review: “HTTP header user-agent has been set to (something)”

We got a security review done of our PHP code and they team advised this in their report (amongst other things): /appdir/ Details The HTTP header user-agent has been set to \" . Request GET ...
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Are there any decent web app security scanners that can integrate with a build server?

I've spent a lot of time in TeamCity recently and the nightly code quality metrics coming from the dupe finder, FxCop and NDepend have been great. What I'd really like to do is find a decent web app ...
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What are the most important security checks for new web applications?

I'm wondering what are the top priority security checks you should make befor launching a new webapp? I'm guessing brute force vulnerabilities and cross-site scripting. What are the other things you ...
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How can I test my web application for timing attacks?

race conditions, etc. Are there automatic tools for this? What manual techniques should I use? From the Area51 proposal
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Defending site against being abused by phishing

Say you have a web site and you are using some returnUrl URL parameter to redirect user back to page where he was after login or editing some records in user area. Is there some standard way how to ...
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Web Crawler for ASP.NET site

Do you know any crawler/spider software, which is able to go through ASP.NET application, not ASP.NET MVC, but the one full of __doPostBack JavaScript functions on every link/button/change event? If ...
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What are some good website security scanning solutions?

What are some good web-based website security scanning solutions? I'm not too concerned if they are web-based solutions, or software that can be run locally. Generally, I'm looking for something we ...