Common web application attacks and quick steps to prevent them

Common web application attacks and quick steps to prevent them

Management needs to take care of the security, especially the security of your sensitive customer information’s.

It’s so often only the most high profile  or sophisticated attacks that you actually hear about , but the reality is there are n number of web attacks happens every single day against the web applications, its comes to public news when it happens only for a big profile.

Good thing is we still can able to protect our website from these kinds of attacks with some preparations.

Most Common Attacks:

Carry out SQL injection attacks to gain access to the database, spoof a user’s identity, and destroy or alter data in the database. SQL injection occurs when malicious SQL statements are inserted into form fields to try and gather information from the database. This information enables the hacker to access, modify or destroy information in the database. With SQL injection, a hacker can change the price of a product, and gain customer information such as credit cards numbers, passwords and contact information.

Use Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks to send malicious code to other users of the  website by injecting code into the application that then executes on the client side for other users. These attacks can lead to your customers being infected with malware, having their sensitive information stolen, or even having their computer be recruited into large botnets.

Make the site temporarily unavailable with a Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS). DDoS attacks generate requests from thousands of IP addresses in an attempt to flood a site with traffic, making it impossible for the server to respond to requests. DDoS attacks can slow a site down or make it temporarily unavailable.

Hijack trusted user sessions to make unwanted purchases on behalf of users with Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. CSRF attacks occur when a user is tricked into clicking a link or downloading a compromised file that executes unwanted or unknown actions on an authenticated user session.


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