Application security

Virtual Assistants: Here to Stay or Data Security Risks?

Cardiff University and IBM have been working on creating a new virtual assistant (VA) software that can interact with its owner in a more human-like manner.

QARK – A tool for automated android app assessments

There has been a need for automated tools for Android Application Assessments for quite some time. Though there are some frameworks here and there, most of t

Writing Exploit for Mini Share Software: Introduction

In this article, we will analyze another software and develop our own working exploit for it. The software which we will be discussing in this article is cal

HTTP/2: Enforcing Strong Encryption as the De Facto Standard

HTTP Protocol, which serves as the communication channel for HTTP requests and responses on the Web, has received its first major revision since introduction

Content Security Policy

The entire web application security model is built on the idea of "Same Origin Policy" which restricts the content of one domain being accessed by another do

Firefox Plug-ins a Security Engineer Needs to Know

Plug-ins are programs that runs within software, which can improve the features of software. For example, a browser could be simply used for browsing purpose

Secure Your Application Using .htacess File

What is Wordpress? WordPress is a free, open-source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin archi

Enhancements in Damn Vulnerable iOS app version 2.0

In this article, I would like to give a quick walkthrough of the new vulnerabilities and challenges that we have added in version 2.0 of Damn Vulnerable iOS

Bypassing Jailbreak Detection Using Xcon

In this small article, we will look at a very handful utility named Xcon for bypassing Jailbreak detection. As per the wiki page ... xCon is a collaborative

Dealing with bad characters & JMP instruction

So far, in previous articles, we have learnt how to develop our own working exploit for the Echo Server program; we used two different payloads with the expl