Regular penetration testing is becoming increasingly important. What many business owners seem to want to know, however, is when to arrange a system test. Any application that processes personal data, whether in the storing or retrieving personal data, needs to have its security tested regularly according to GDPR Article 32 (1.D). Many systems have never … Read more
If the name doesn’t already sound strange enough, wait until you see what you can do with Google Dorking. Before we dive deep into how we can use Google Dorking. We must first look at search engines themselves. What is a search engine? A search engine can be thought of as a behemothic database, however, … Read more
Web application penetration testing describes the process of simulating an unobtrusive attack against a web application. It allows companies to understand vulnerabilities that are easy to miss during the development process. These vulnerabilities can have wide-reaching consequences to the application as well as the data stored within its database.
Penetration testing comes in many forms and is often dependent on the type of application/ system being tested. This often falls into four categories. API penetration test, mobile penetration test/application penetration test, infrastructure penetration test, and web application penetration test. Each one of these types of tests has different steps and techniques. API Penetration Testing: … Read more
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are injection attacks in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise trustworthy and innocuous websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code to a particular end user, usually in the form of a browser side script.
Each piece of the cyber security puzzle for your organisation is important. At Sencode, we believe the best way to combat the surge in cybercrime is to use an innovative method we call ‘Test and Teach’.
We all know that skilled hackers are only as good as the tools they use – whether they are self-made or widely available to download, professionals rely on tools to speed up tests and complete tasks which would otherwise not be humanly possible (such as exploit’s with race conditions, for example). So, here they are; Sencode Cyber Security’s top 5 hacking tools as of February 2021.
Pen testing is one of those sneaky terms in the English language which describes a whole suite of different services, but the unifying trait within its constituents is that they are all characterised by a ‘simulated cyber-attack’.
Having spoken to many cybersecurity professionals at various networking events and expos, one recurring topic of conversation seems to arise; that business owners are put off improving their cybersecurity posture because they have little knowledge of the dangers that cybercrime can pose, or of the simple methods by which they can achieve security. Many organisations … Read more
