Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy. It runs on UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. According to Netcraft, 6% of all domains on the Internet use nginx webserver. Nginx is one of a handful of ser ...
Web application frameworks are made to help developers build web applications. Some of them also help you with securing the web application. In fact one framework is not more secure than another: If you use it correctly, you will be able to build secure apps with many frameworks. Ruby on R ...
Recently, there have been reports of malicious attacks on unsecured instances of MongoDB running openly on the internet. The attacker erased the database and demanded a ransom be paid before restoring it. Related Articles:
The MySQL database has become the world’s most popular open source database because of its consistent level of fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It is used everywhere and by everyone. Individuals, web developers, and many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing org ...
A very popular standalone NoSQL database solution came under criticism about their security posture this week. It’s not the kind of publicity a database company – or any company for that matter – relishes. Although the vulnerability seems to have been less a problem with the core dat ...
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides AWS customers with the ability to launch and fully manage virtual machines in the cloud. This webpage provides high-level guidance and best practices for securing EC2 instances. These best practices span operating syste ...
Like any responsible website owner, you are probably well aware of the importance of online security. You may think that you have your ducks in a row in this department, but like many other website owners and companies, there probably hasn’t been enough done to secure your web applicatio ...
Security attacks are moving from today's well-protected IT network infrastructure to the software that everyone uses - increasing the attack surface to any company, organisation or individual. Paradoxically, productivity-enhancing software that is embraced often invariably houses large amo ...
Security is an important feature in any web application. Since almost all web applications are exposed to the internet, there is always a chance of a security threat to web applications. Hence, when developing web-based applications, it is always recommended to ensure that application is d ...
Security Testing is a variant of Software Testing which ensures, that system and applications in an organization, are free from any loopholes that may cause a big loss. Security testing of any system is about finding all possible loopholes and weaknesses of the system which might result in ...