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Articles by Ashish Jha
4 articles
Why Educating Employees Is Key to Preventing Data Breaches?
Data breaches are the most common problem these days. With new emerging technologies, implementations are sometimes not done with proper security practises in mind, leading to data breaches. Organisations deploy every sophisticated product in the market, yet still, data breaches happen. Why? Human errors are the answer! In this article, let's explore why educating employees is the key to preventing data breaches in 2025 and beyond. What is a Data Breach? A data breach takes place when any private information is accessed by anyone without permission. This information or data can be anything such as your debit/credit card details, passwords, ...
Read MoreHow to prevent cookie leaks in a cross-site scripting attack
Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are among the most common vulnerabilities found in web applications. An attacker attends a user's browsing session, often deceptively by propelling a malicious script, but the user is using a trusted site. The most important effect of XSS is that it allows an attacker to steal sensitive cookies by unauthorized acquisition, causing identity theft or session hijacking.What XSS attacks are, how cookies are compromised because of them, and most importantly, how to implement effective safeguards against the leaking cookies during such attacks will all be revealed in this article.What is Cross-site Scripting?Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a ...
Read MoreDifference Between Password Spraying and Dictionary Attack
It is vital in cybersecurity to learn how to prevent different types of cyber attacks. Many different mechanisms are used by attackers when targeting user credentials; two of the most common types of attacks are dictionary attacks and password spraying. Both of these try to penetrate a password, but their approaches and situations are quite different. In this article, we will examine the differences between these two attack methods, and we will also explore how they work and what are the preventive measures. What is Password Spraying? One of these attack techniques is called password spraying where an attacker ...
Read MoreHow to use X-Content-Type-Options to prevent MIME sniffing?
Data security maintenance plays a critical role in online applications. MIME Sniffing is one such vulnerability, which results from improper installation of security headers and the unauthorised execution of content. A browser will try to get a resource MIME type by content rather than just the Content-Type header. A server sends that header along with a resource. This behaviour can be stopped with the help of the X-Content-Type-Options HTTP header adding to the security fortification. A developer will instruct a browser to firmly follow the defined Content-type and disallow MIME sniffing by this header. The following discussion will provide insights ...
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