How would you determine whether your website is being hacked or not? Read the way hacker steals the information and hacks your website. Moreover, how you can help preventing your website being hacked.

IS YOUR WEBSITE HACKABLE?

Some hackers, for example, will take advantage of web application vulnerabilities and may maliciously inject code within vulnerable web applications to trick users and redirect them towards phisphing sites. This technique is called Cross-Site Scripting and may be used even when the web servers and database engine contain no vulnerabilities themselves.

Is your data really safe?
Just because you think your data is safe does not mean your database of sensitive organization information has not already been cloned and is resident elsewhere ready to be sold to the highest bidder. To make matters worse, only recently, it has been discovered that hackers are not simply selling [...] Continue Reading…

What is a Black Box Testing Strategy?

Black Box Testing is not a type of testing; it instead is a testing strategy, which does not need any knowledge of internal design or code etc. As the name “black box” suggests, no knowledge of internal logic or code structure is required. The types of testing under this strategy are totally based/focused on the testing for requirements and functionality of the work product/software application. Black box testing is sometimes also called as “Opaque Testing”, “Functional/Behavioral Testing” and “Closed Box Testing”.

The base of the Black box testing strategy lies in the selection of appropriate data as per functionality and testing it against the functional specifications in order to check for normal and abnormal behavior of the system. Now a days, it is becoming common to route the Testing work to a third [...] Continue Reading…

Web applications are becoming more prevalent and increasingly more sophisticated, and as such they are critical to almost all major online businesses. As with most security issues involving client/server communications, Web application vulnerabilities generally stem from improper handling of client requests and/or a lack of input validation checking on the part of the developer.
The very nature of Web applications - their ability to collate, process and disseminate information over the Internet - exposes them in two ways. First and most obviously, they have total exposure by nature of being publicly accessible. This makes security through obscurity impossible and heightens the requirement for hardened code. Second and most critically from a penetration testing perspective, they process data elements from within HTTP requests - a protocol that can employ a myriad of encoding and encapsulation techniques.
Most Web application environments (including ASP and PHP, which will both be used for examples throughout [...] Continue Reading…

World champion Abhinav Bindra wins India’s first ever individual gold at the Olympic Games by winning the gold medal at the men’s 10m air rifle event in Beijing. The bespectacled shooter managed a series of 100, 99, 100, 98, 100 and 99. Let’s all wish him on creating history and for bringing pride to India

Beijing, Aug 11 (IANS) The Indian national anthem was played at an Olympics venue after 28 years as shooter Abhinav Bindra made history here Monday, winning the country its first individual Olympic gold medal. The last time India had won a gold medal at the Olympics was the hockey gold at 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

The 25-year-old bespectacled shooter showed nerves of steel as he scored 104.5 in the final to add to his 596 in the qualifier for a total of 700.5 points that gave him the coveted gold.

That composure gave way to a couple [...] Continue Reading…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

By carefully evaluating techniques required to boost website traffic i have come up with the 32 tips for search engine optimization (SEO) of your favourite website. If these tips are followed in correct manner you will see the increase in traffic for sure

1. Make sure your site is not under construction, incomplete, with little or no unique content.

2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search [...] Continue Reading…