A widely used security tool owned by web hosting provider GoDaddy, designed to prevent websites from being hacked, was easily bypassed, putting websites at risk of data theft. The company's website ...

A tool for testing if Web application firewalls (WAFs) are vulnerable to around 150 protocol-level evasion techniques was released at the Black Hat USA 2012 security conference on Wednesday. The tool ...

Web application firewalls (WAFs) from five major vendors are vulnerable to malicious requests that use the popular JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to obfuscate database commands and escape detection ...

Despite the relative maturity of the Web, it is still the most hostile environment imaginable. Given the vast array of threats that exist online, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

As much as we might like to think otherwise, cloud-native applications are web applications. We may build services, but their APIs are often RESTful, and where we may have used various remote ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is probably one of the most popular preventive and/or detective security controls for web applications today. Garter’s Magic Quadrant (MQ) 2015 for Web Application ...