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In today’s digital landscape, where businesses heavily rely on technology and online platforms, it has become imperative to prioritize cybersecurity measures. One crucial aspect of ensuring the security of your business is conducting regular vulnerability scanning. This proactive approach allows you to identify and address potential weaknesses in your systems before they can be exploited […]

Vulnerability scanning is a crucial aspect of modern organizations seeking to secure their digital assets against cyber threats. While there is a plethora of scanning tools available in the market, each offering its own distinct features, the extensive reports generated can be overwhelming for developers and drain resources. This is where a vulnerability scanning service […]

Much of the web is made up of multi-page and single-page applications. Single page applications or SPAs are exploding in popularity because they perform a lot of real-time functionality such as updating content, facilitating personalization, and improving user experience. An important feature of single-page applications is performance. They get a performance boost by loading HTML, […]

Checkscan+ Technical Director John Killilea answers some important questions on the topic of vulnerability scanning.

Vulnerability scanning, or software vulnerability scanning, is the process of finding vulnerabilities in software and fixing them before hackers find them and use them against you. But what does that really mean? What do vulnerability scans do? Why are they so important? And what’s the best way to use vulnerability scanning to make sure your […]

Any device that runs software or applications can contain security flaws, known as vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities are regularly discovered in all sorts of software. Once discovered, malicious individuals or groups move quickly to misuse (or ‘exploit’) vulnerabilities to attack computers and networks in organisations with these weaknesses. Vulnerabilities also have varying degrees of severity and new […]

Webinar Overview: Handling file uploads and processing URLs should be easy, right? Well, it turns out there are many things that can go wrong, in lots of different ways, and at many levels (e.g. an application, a framework, the web browser, a proxy server). We explore through example how assumptions and subtle mishandling of URLs […]