Application Security

Database fingerprinting is the process of 'feeling out' a database using SQL to gather more information to be able to perform a more successful attack.

The process of using basic SQL injections and guesswork to find out information about a database (see Database Fingerprinting).

Device fingerprinting is a way to combine certain attributes of a device such as OS, browser version, browser language version, IP address to identify it as a unique device.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious method of disrupting the normal traffic of a targeted website, service, server or network.

DNS spoofing, also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, is a form of hacking in which corrupt Domain Name System data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect response, e.g. an IP address.

An Emergency Response Team (ERT), also known as an Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), is a group of information security experts responsible for the protection against, detection of and response to an organization’s cybersecurity incidents.

An executable file (exe file) contains an encoded sequence of instructions that the system can execute directly when the user clicks the file icon.

A file path traversal attack (also known as directory traversal) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to access files and directories that are stored outside the web root folder.