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Ethical Hacking

William Bailey

Ethical Hacking

MIS 5211.701 ■ Fall 2020 ■ William Bailey
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Week 09: Web Application Security

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Week 09: In the News: Web Application Breach

October 26, 2020 by William Bailey 44 Comments

To help us understand what can be obtained via a web application that has vulnerabilities, or weaknesses, that an untrusted outsider can take advantage of.  Krebsonsecurity talks about a breach caused to a web application that they had purchased from Fiserv, resulting in customers being able to to view account data for other customers, including account number, balance, phone numbers and email addresses.  (https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/fiserv/)

For this week, research a recent breach announcement that was attributed to a web application failure.  How did attackers misuse the website, and what were they able to obtain?  How could the breach have been averted?

 

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Weekly Discussions

  • Uncategorized (1)
  • Week 01: Overview (5)
  • Week 02: TCP/IP and Network Architecture (3)
  • Week 03: Virtualization (2)
  • Week 04: Vulnerability Scanning (2)
  • Week 05: System and User Enumeration (2)
  • Week 06: Metasploit (1)
  • Week 07: Social Engineering (2)
  • Week 08: Malware (2)
  • Week 09: Web Application Security (1)
  • Week 12: Wireless (2)
  • Week 14: Review of all topics (1)

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