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Vulnerable and Outdated Components Explained | Rootsec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...
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,...
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...