19Dec 2018 by Amine G No Comments
Understanding Transport Layer Security TLS .

Understanding Transport Layer Security TLS .

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              TLS is the critical Internet infrastructure that makes commerce, trust, and confidentiality possible. Transport Layer Security is on the short list for "most important security protocol on the Internet." It is designed to enable client-server applications like web browsers and servers to securely communicate over the Internet, protecting against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. Each party can know that the other is who they claim to be. TLS is the technological descendant of Secure Sockets Layer and is often referred to casually as SSL. The earlier SSL versions were developed by Netscape Communications. In the late 1990s, after AOL bought Netscape, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) took over the protocol. Version 1.0 of TLS had only small differences compared with SSL 3.0.…
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22Nov 2018 by Amine G 1 Comment
Fundamentals Of Web Applications Security .

Fundamentals Of Web Applications Security .

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Over the past ten years, we have heard much about the security of web applications, and the threats that can come from using them. For better or worse, modern businesses have become increasingly dependent on the use of web applications developed agile; from complex infrastructure systems to IoT devices. Attacks on web applications provide intruders with ample opportunities such as: -Access to a company's internal resources and sensitive information; -The opportunity to disrupt the functioning of an application or bypass business logic; -Financial gains for the attacker, and losses, both financial and reputational, for the owner of web applications. Users of web applications are at risk, because if an attack is successful, the intruder can steal credentials, perform actions on websites on behalf of users, and infect a system with…
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