Loopholes in front-end software development can obscure the cyber security of a web application leaving the website vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting…
Category: Software
Application-Layer Cyber Threat
An efficacious cyber threat consisting of a DDoS attack on the application-layer (L7) remains difficult to detect. A DDoS attack on the application layer focuses on…
What is Bloatware?
Bloatware typically refers to unwanted software that remains redundant. Unused software takes over the computer storage space and in larger quantities slows down the device performance. Other names to reference Bloatware are Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) and Junkware.
Software Failures and Cyber Security
Software failures are often a result of later additions to existing code which introduces a series of complications and problems. For a security professional any software which is released too early with a lack of rigorous testing is a nuisance that could cause a serious cyber security breach.
Multiple software revisions for fixing problems followed by a sequence of patches introduces vulnerabilities to previously working components.
Cyber Security and Software Development
Underlying software development errors can result in the software crashing which causes significant problems for the end users, including but not limited to — loss of…