Hacking Your Way to Security - Learn How to Secure Better

Hacking and cybersecurity don’t belong in a single sentence, yet the best approach to securing any app, website or cyber resource is hacking. Why’s that? Well, if you can successfully hack your asset, you know who else can, and then you can structure your cybersecurity efforts around that.

With the losses by cybercrime amounting to an estimated $10.5 trillion by the end of 2025, secure software development is the way to go.

This article covers two things, the most common threats to application security and how you can use hacking to find out the vulnerabilities in your code.

Most Common Threats to Application Security

Even though the threats to application security keep changing over time, some of them are always there. These include:

Insecure Container Images

Containers are a great way of making agile and efficient applications, but they have a catch. Once a security vulnerability is inside a container image, it can go a long way. Conducting a proper Container Security check can save you from such threats.

Injection Attacks

Injection attacks work by feeding malicious data to an app through its input fields. The most common forms of such attacks are SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and Email Header....

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Hakin9 TEAM: Hakin9 is a monthly magazine dedicated to hacking and cybersecurity. In every edition, we try to focus on different approaches to show various techniques - defensive and offensive. This knowledge will help you understand how most popular attacks are performed and how to protect your data from them. Our tutorials, case studies and online courses will prepare you for the upcoming, potential threats in the cyber security world. We collaborate with many individuals and universities and public institutions, but also with companies such as Xento Systems, CATO Networks, EY, CIPHER Intelligence LAB, redBorder, TSG, and others.