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What are some effective strategies to pentest a native code library?

The vast majority of resources out there about penetration testing applications is about web and mobile applications; in some cases there are resources about so-called "native applications" ...
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Safe sharing source code with 3rd party for security review?

I work at a small software company, and we are working with another company that wants to use our software. However, their InfoSec team want us to have a 3rd party source code review completed, with ...
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Path Manipulation Vulnerability

Currently I am working in code review process. I have few doubts regrading Path Manipulation Vulnerability. Some portion of the Path is already hard coded and with extension public class ReadFile { ...
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Penetration Testing vs Secure Source Code Review [duplicate]

Recently I came across to a situation where an institution has hired a third party vendor to develop its business applications. I came up with the following questions related to penetration testing ...
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How and where to begin on the Return of Web Application Security Investment?

While there is a vast trove of vulnerabilties, threats and their corresponding countermeasures, the amount of information on Infosec Economics (Specifically for web applications) seems scarce. What ...
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Is Request.getHeader("host") vulnerable?

If the following is the code snippet, what would be your suggestions? <script type="text/javascript" src="<%=request.getHeader("Host")%>/XXX/xxx.js"></script> Is this a clear ...
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Penetration Testing Silverlight Applications

What would be the process in pentesting a Silverlight application? What would be the best method to proceed in a manual test? Any specific tools use? For example an application with lot of file upload,...
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Open source web application penetration testing community

I do web development for a living but my real passion is security. I have worked with countless open source web application/framework and I have found vulnerabilities in most of them. The main cause ...
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Automated tools vs. Manual reviews

What are the advantages of using automated tools, as opposed to manual review? What are the disadvantages? This applies both to external blackbox vulnerability scanning, and to static code analysis. ...
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White-box vs. Black-box

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each form of testing? I.e. What is the difference between static code analysis and runtime/dynamic penetration testing? What are the pros and cons ...
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How to perform a security audit for a PHP application?

I have a PHP application that I would like to have audited for security. I'm familiar with most of the general security issues, but want to make sure I didn't miss anything. What steps should I take ...
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