SoakSoak Malware and How to Protect Your WordPress Website
If you follow security news, I am sure you have heard of SoakSoak malware. It has been in the news for the past few days because it affects more than 100,000+...
Pavitra Shankdhar
Pavitra Shandkhdhar is an engineering graduate and a security researcher. His area of interest is web penetration testing. He likes to find vulnerabilities in websites and playing computer games in his free time. He is currently a researcher with InfoSec Institute.
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WPScanner: Automated Security Testing Tool for WordPress
WordPress is the popular content management system and blogging platform being used by millions of websites. This is the reason hackers are targeting WordPress....
Information Gathering: Mantra Browser Walkthrough, Part 2
In a previous post, I covered the basics on the popular penetration testing Web browser Mantra. That post contains information on how to download Mantra, as...
Mantra Browser Walkthrough Part 1
In previous posts, I discussed a few browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome that turn the browser into a penetration testing tool. But what if you could...
Fixing CSRF vulnerability in PHP applications
Cross Site Request Forgery or CSRF is one of top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities. It exploits the website's trust on the browser. This vulnerability harms users' and...
Protect Data by Preventing Insecure Cryptographic Storage
Daily, we read news about hacking and data leaks. Hackers are really active these days. So, it is our responsibility to prevent them in getting unauthorized...
Security and hacking apps for Android devices
Now days, smartphones and tablets are most the popular gadgets. If we see recent stats, global PC sale has also been decreasing for the past few months. The...
Using X5S with Fiddler to find XSS Vulnerabilities
Cross Site Scripting is one of the top 10 OWASP security threats. This dangerous vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious scripts on a website in...
Websecurify Walkthrough, Web Application Penetration Testing Tool
Information security is a very important thing for the modern Internet world. So, proper care must be taken while launching a web application over the Internet....