Category Archives: Application Security

Injection Flaws/ Attack

This post is part of a multi-post series on web application security threats and their solutions. Please visit my introduction article here to know about more security threats and their solutions. Introduction Injection flaws allow attackers to relay malicious code through a web application to another system. These attacks include calls to the operating system […]

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attack

Introduction This post is part of a multi-post series on web application security threats and their solutions. Please visit my introduction article here to know about more security threats and their solutions. This type of attack enables attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users. XSS flaws occur whenever an application […]

Click Jacking OR UI redress Attack

Introduction This post is part of a multi-post series on application security threats and their solutions. Please visit my introduction article here to know about more security threats and their solutions. In click-jacking attacker hijack user’s click. Click-jacking (also known as a “UI redress attack”) is when an attacker uses multiple transparent/opaque layers to trick […]