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Introduction to Web Application Security Several times in a year does your personal or work computer ask you to update its security features despite the worldwide spending on information security standing around $80 billion in 2015. World Wide Web has become a vulnerable place, the more it saw a lot of sophistications and developments...
Application Security, Technology
We saw different implementations of a password reset functionality to ensure application security along with their best practices in the first and the second blogs of the series. In this final blog of the series, we will discuss the concept of Multi-Factor Authentication (One Time Passwords i.e. OTP) for the implementation of a reset...
Being a technology focused company, TO THE NEW has always made its presence felt in major conferences around the world. This time, it was X0RC0NF in Cochin, India. I was invited to present my talk there and attend the conference as a speaker. The topic of my talk was "Anatomizing online payment systems: hack to shop", majorly focusing on...
Application Security, Technology
Digital innovation has been evolving and growing in the financial space with time. It is no secret that the financial companies today see digital presence as a key component to their company's success. Customers can now manage their finances from anywhere and at anytime using these digital offerings. But, this raises a serious issue. With...
A thief picks a lock to open it. But if the key is already available, it’s a piece of cake for the thief. Such is the nature of applications and hackers today. All it takes is one mistake from the developer(the key) and the hackers capitalize on that mistake (the theft). It has been rightly said, ”Security is only as strong as the...
For every developer, implementing a password reset feature is a very interesting part. This is where he develops a logic and then implements it in the code. There is no well-defined industry standard on how to implement a secure password reset functionality in your application. So, the result is that every application has a different way...