An organization decided to harden its security against web-application and web-server attacks. John, a security personnel in the organization, employed a security scanner to automate web-application security testing and to guard the organization's web infrastructure against web-application threats. Using that tool, he also wants to detect XSS, directory transversal problems, fault injection, SQL injection, attempts to execute commands, and several other attacks. Which of the following security scanners will help John perform the above task?
You went to great lengths to install all the necessary technologies to prevent hacking attacks, such as expensive firewalls, antivirus software, anti-spam systems, and intrusion detection/prevention tools in your company's network. You are confident that hackers will never be able to gain access. Your peer, Peter Smith, disagrees and says the presence of a “weakest link” still exposes the network.
What is Peter Smith talking about?
A financial services firm is experiencing a sophisticated DoS attack on their DNS servers using DNS amplification and on their web servers using HTTP floods. Traditional firewall rules and IDS are failing to mitigate the attack effectively. To protect their infrastructure without impacting legitimate users, which advanced mitigation strategy should the firm implement?
A tester evaluates a login form that builds SQL queries using unsanitized input. By submitting a single quote ('), the tester bypasses authentication and logs in. What type of SQL injection occurred?
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