The document discusses web application security testing and provides guidance for testing professionals. It outlines some of the top attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It recommends getting educated on security topics, using tools like WebScarab and IBM Rational AppScan to test for vulnerabilities, and incorporating security testing into the development process.
The Complete Web Application Security Testing ChecklistCigital
Did you know that the web is the most common target for application-level attacks? That being said, if you have ever been tasked with securing a web application for one reason or another, then you know it’s not a simple feat to accomplish. When securing your applications, it’s critical to take a strategic approach. This web application security testing checklist guides you through the testing process, captures key testing elements, and prevents testing oversights.
Tailor your approach and ensure that your testing strategy is as effective, efficient, and timely as possible with these six steps:
Web applications are commonly used to transmit, accept and store data that is personal, company confidential and sensitive.
More enterprises are spending more time testing web applications, but many still do not integrate security testing into an application's overall test plan.
In this presentation, we explore ways to integrate security testing into an end-to-end test plan, exercise security features in unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests.
Precise Testing Solution is offering security testing services to web application. We help you to protect data from unauthorized users. Precise Testing Solution has 8 year experience in security testing. For more info visit at: http://www.precisetestingsolution.com/security-testing.php
The Complete Web Application Security Testing ChecklistCigital
Did you know that the web is the most common target for application-level attacks? That being said, if you have ever been tasked with securing a web application for one reason or another, then you know it’s not a simple feat to accomplish. When securing your applications, it’s critical to take a strategic approach. This web application security testing checklist guides you through the testing process, captures key testing elements, and prevents testing oversights.
Tailor your approach and ensure that your testing strategy is as effective, efficient, and timely as possible with these six steps:
Web applications are commonly used to transmit, accept and store data that is personal, company confidential and sensitive.
More enterprises are spending more time testing web applications, but many still do not integrate security testing into an application's overall test plan.
In this presentation, we explore ways to integrate security testing into an end-to-end test plan, exercise security features in unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests.
Precise Testing Solution is offering security testing services to web application. We help you to protect data from unauthorized users. Precise Testing Solution has 8 year experience in security testing. For more info visit at: http://www.precisetestingsolution.com/security-testing.php
+ Background & Basics of Web App Security, The HTTP Protocol, Web.
+ Application Insecurities, OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, etc.)
+ Web App Security Tools (Scanners, Fuzzers, etc), Remediation of Web App
+ Vulnerabilities, Web Application Audits and Risk Assessment.
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Introduction to Web Application Penetration TestingAnurag Srivastava
Web Application Pentesting
* Process to check and penetrate the security of a web application or a website
* process involves an active analysis of the application for any weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities
* Any security issues that are found will be presented to the system owner, together with an assessment of the impact, a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.
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+ Background & Basics of Web App Security, The HTTP Protocol, Web.
+ Application Insecurities, OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, etc.)
+ Web App Security Tools (Scanners, Fuzzers, etc), Remediation of Web App
+ Vulnerabilities, Web Application Audits and Risk Assessment.
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Vaibhav Gupta, Vishal Ashtana, Sandeep Singh from Null.
Introduction to Web Application Penetration TestingAnurag Srivastava
Web Application Pentesting
* Process to check and penetrate the security of a web application or a website
* process involves an active analysis of the application for any weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities
* Any security issues that are found will be presented to the system owner, together with an assessment of the impact, a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.
This is a detailed presentation of our web security suite - SECURITY-TESTING. It's a cloud based product, providing solutions under 6 modules - SERM, Scanning, Detection, Monitoring, Performance and Inventory. For more details please visit our website www.security-testing.net
Improve the Security of Your Application Portfolio in a Few Days with On-Dema...Capgemini
Under pressure to deploy more applications and releases, organizations need industrial application protection and security testing processes for huge software portfolios.
Find out how a flexible service from testing and security leaders Capgemini and Sogeti can improve the security of your applications, test them on demand, and get results in days.
Powered by HPE Fortify on Demand and hosted in a private infrastructure in Europe, it requires no license, hardware, special expertise, or investment.
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Security Testing is deemed successful when the below attributes of an application are intact
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- Authorization
- Availability
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Non-Repudiation
Testing must start early to minimize defects and cost of quality. Security testing must start right from the Requirements Gathering phase to make sure that the quality of end-product is high.
This is to ensure that any intentional/unintentional unforeseen action does not halt or delay the system.
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I will first deep dive into sample code across a few tools (Cucumber, Fitnesse, Concordion) to illustrate this layering. I use an example that shows how to decouple the GUI from tests (window driver pattern).
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Positioning OWASP SAMM as structural and measurable framework to get application security under control in the complete application lifecycle.
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• Malware Attack
• Single factor passwords
• Insider Threat
• Shadow IT Systems
• Crime, espionage and sabotage by rogue nation-states
• IoT
• CCPA and GDPR
• Cyber attacks on utilities and public infrastructure
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13. Web Application Security is Neglected of all attacks on Information Security are directed to the Web Application Layer 75% of all Web Applications are vulnerable 2/3 Network Server Web Applications % of Attacks % of Dollars 75% 10% 25% 90% Security Spending
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30. Cross Site Scripting – The Exploit Process Evil.org User bank.com 1) Link to bank.com sent to user via E-mail or HTTP 2) User sends script embedded as data 3) Script/data returned, executed by browser 4) Script sends user’s cookie and session information without the user’s consent or knowledge 5) Evil.org uses stolen session information to impersonate user
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SQL Injection occurs when user input is embedded as-is inside a pre-built SQL query. For example: Let’s assume that our web application receives a product ID as input, and presents that product’s page. The SQL query looks like this: “ Select * from products where id=‘” + $REQUEST[‘id’]; You should note, that the query is basically a text string, and user input is concatenated to it. In this example, the user string is surrounded by apostrophes. Let’s take a look at what will happen if we submit the product ID value of ‘ or ‘’=‘ The query will be: SELECT * from products where id=‘’ or ‘’=‘’; You should pay attention to the fact that the WHERE criteria here is basically a Boolean TRUE. Since the results of this query matches every entry in the database, all the products will be returned.
Let’s take a look at how SQL Injection can assist a hacker to bypass the login mechanism of a banking application: - First, in order to sense that SQL Injection is possible, the hacker will injection the character apostrophe (‘), as the user name
This yields a very informative SQL error message, which helps the attacker to devise the next phase of the injection
Now, the hacker attempts to send the username: ‘ or 1=1— Note: the apostrophe is used to close the string context in which our input is embedded in 1=1 is a Boolean TRUE -- is used in MS SQL to comment out everything after the – sign, so we don’t have to worry about the rest of the SQL query
After sending this SQL injection payload, we will be logged into the application, as the first user in the user's table - without having to supply actual credentials.
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A Cross Site Scripting attack, attempts to echo back a malicious script in the HTML returned from a trusted site. Since the script is echoed back from a trusted site, it runs in the context of that site. The implications of XSS are: Stealing HTTP session tokens Page content may be compromised (this may include “local” site defacement, or hijacking of the browser’s session using scripting) Future pages may be contaminated as well (by hijacking the session)
Let’s take a look at the chain of events during a XSS attack The attack creates and sends the victim a link to bank.com (a trusted site). The link contains a search string (or any other string that is echoed back), which contains a malicious JavaScript code The victim, clicks on this link, since he/she trusts the bank.com web site The bank.com web application, echoes back the malicious JavaScript code inside the response page. This JavaScript is executed in the security context of bank.com, since it is echoed by from that site. This means that it has access to DOM elements belonging to this domain/session The malicious script, sends the current cookie and session information, without the victim’s consent, to the evil.org web site, where the hacker is waiting for it.
Let’s take a look at the following banking web site – this site contains a search function, that allows users to search the site for specific text. If we type the string “asdf”, the response to the search will contain that string, inside the results page, in what we call “free HTML context”. What will happen if instead of typing “asdf”, we will type some JavaScript code? Let’s try to type the following JavaScript code: <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
As you can see – the piece of JavaScript code that we wrote, was echoed back by the site’s search function – since it was returned from the banking application, it had access to the Document Object Model (DOM), and could access the current session cookie. In this situation, I myself planted this JavaScript code in the web page, but in a XSS attack, it is the attacker who creates a link that contains the malicious JavaScript, and then sends this link to the victim. When the victim clicks on the link, the malicious JavaScript will be echoed back from the trusted site.
In several scenarios, it may be possible for an attacker to manipulate the web application to disclose a resource such as a sensitive file. This can occur by either guessing a common file name and location and attempting to request it, or by manipulating a parameter value that is used to access a file, as will be seen in the next example. The implications of Insecure Direct Object Reference is usually information leakage or access to sensitive resources.
In this example, we see that a web application that uses a parameter called “content”, which points to the contents of the page to be displayed. An attacker might attempt to manipulate the parameter value, from “business_deposit.htm”, which is the valid page, to some other file – for example, the Boot.ini which is a system file.
The attempt failed, and the system disclosed that it only allows parameter value (file names) that end with either txt or htm as their file extension. Let’s try a little trick called “Poison Null Byte”, we’ll write the file we actually want to open which is Boot.ini, but append a NULL character and the extension the application is looking for (in this example .htm)
Bingo! – we managed to circumvent the file extension validation, and open a sensitive system file. Using this technique, we can manipulate the application to hand us the contents of other, more sensitive files, such as databases, customer files, etc.