What to Do After a Ransomware Attack | Rootsec
Ransomware has grown steadily in both scale and sophistication. Recent industry threat reports show ransomware activity rising sharply year on year,...
What Is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)? | Rootsec
Cross-site scripting, or XSS, is a type of attack where injection plays the leading role. Attackers inject malicious scripts into websites and...
Vulnerable and Outdated Components Explained | Rootsec
That is quite a mouthful for a single category of weakness, but it earns its place. In the original OWASP Top 10 (2017) this risk was listed as A9:...
Understanding & Preventing Phishing Attacks | Rootsec
Phishing is a form of social engineering designed to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, card numbers and banking details....
Vulnerability Scan vs Penetration Test | Rootsec
“Just tell me what I need.” If only it were that simple. The honest answer is that every security challenge calls for its own approach,...
How to Reduce MTTD and MTTR | Rootsec
Cyber attacks are growing more sophisticated and more frequent, and across the UAE and wider GCC the organisations weathering them best are not...
Information Security vs Cybersecurity | Rootsec
“Cybersecurity” and “information security” are often used as if they mean the same thing. They are closely related, and good...
Logging & Monitoring Failures Explained | Rootsec
This is the tenth and final stop in our walk through the OWASP Top 10. Looking back, it might have made more sense to begin here and work upwards,...