Rewire with Susan
Rewire with Susan
Common security vulnerabilities(Part 2)
0:22 - Welcome!!
0:33 - Short recap from last week
0:56 - Please share your feedback about the podcast in this google form
1:10 - SQL Injection
- Injecting malicious SQL statements into the database through the user input
- 2:23 - How to prevent
- Treat user input as untrusted - Filter and validate
2:43 - Security misconfiguration
- Happens when a part of your web application is defenseless against attack
- Using default credentials
- Allowing users to have access to information about the application through the stack trace
- 4:18 - How to prevent
- Don't overshare information
- Have a minimal footprint for the different components of your application
- Don't keep default accounts, files, or directories
5:14 - Broken authentication
- Happens when an attacker masquerades as a user through. different means
- Credential stuffing: using known breached accounts
- Automated attacks: using random credentials
- Default(lazy) credentials
- Stolen session Ids
- 8:46 - How to prevent
- The web server could be used to create unique session ids different from the ones created by the browser
- Add a limit to failed logins
- Muti-factor authentication
- Password complexity
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