Company Insights on BP, Microsoft, and Western Digital

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... APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES COUNTERMEASURES (CONTINUED)Top­10 Web application vulnerabilities (continued)Remote administration flawsAttacker can gain access to the Web server through the remote administration interfaceWeb and application server misconfigurationAny Web server software out of the box is usually vulnerable to attackDefault accounts and passwordsOverly informative error messages32HANDS ON ETHICAL HACKING AND NETWORK DEFENSELesson 10Hacking Web ServersAPPLICATION VULNERABILITIES COUNTERMEASURES (CONTINUED)WebGoat can be used toTraverse a file system on a Windows XP computer running ApacheWebGoat’s big challengeDefeat an authentication mechanismSteal credit cards from a databaseDeface a Web site36COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE (CGI)Handles moving data from a Web server to a Web browserThe majority of dynamic Web pages are created with CGI and scripting languagesDescribes how a Web server passes data to a Web browserRelies on Perl or another scripting language to create dynamic Web pagesCGI programs can be written in different programming and scripting languages1037COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE (CGI) (CONTINUED)CGI exampleWritten in PerlHello.plShould be placed in the cgi­bin directory on the Web server#!/usr/bin/perlprint ... "="4217DOES THE WEB APPLICATION CONNECT TO A BACKEND DATABASE SERVER? (CONTINUED)Basic testing should look forWhether you can enter text with punctuation marksWhether you can enter a single quotation mark followed by any SQL keywordsWhether you can get any sort of database error when attempting to inject SQL43USING SCRIPTING LANGUAGESDynamic Web pages can be developed using scripting languagesVBScriptJavaScriptPHP18DOES THE WEB APPLICATION REQUIRE AUTHENTICATION OF THE USER?Many Web applications require another server authenticate usersExamine how information is passed between the two serversEncrypted channelsVerify that logon and password information is stored on secure placesAuthentication servers introduce a second target44PHP: HYPERTEXT PROCESSOR (PHP)Enables Web developers to create dynamic Web pagesSimilar to ASPOpen­source server­side scripting languageCan be embedded in an HTML Web page using PHP tags <?php and ?>Users cannot see PHP code on their Web browserUsed primarily on UNIX systemsAlso supported on Macintosh and Microsoft platforms19 ON WHAT PLATFORM WAS THE WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPED?Several different platforms and technologies can be used to develop Web applicationsAttacks differ depending on the platform and technology used to develop the applicationFootprinting is used to find out as much information as possible about a target systemThe more you know about a system the easier it is to gather information about its vulnerabilities45OBJECTIVESCollection InformationDescribe Web applicationsExplain Web application vulnerabilitiesDescribe the tools used to attack Web servers2 ... %>.</BODY></HTML>Microsoft does not want users to be able to view an ASP Web page’s source codeThis can create serious security problems14ASSESSING WEB APPLICATIONSSecurity testers should look for answers to some important questionsDoes the Web application use dynamic Web pages?Does the Web application connect to a backend database server?Does the Web application require authentication of the user? On what platform was the Web application developed?40APACHE WEB SERVERTomcat Apache is another Web Server programTomcat Apache hosts anywhere from 50% to 60% of all Web sitesAdvantagesWorks on just about any *NIX and Windows platformIt is freeRequires Java 2 Standard Runtime Environment (J2SE, version 5.0)15DOES THE WEB APPLICATION USE DYNAMIC WEB PAGES?Static Web pages do not create a security environmentIIS attack exampleSubmitting a specially formatted URL to the attacked Web serverIIS does not correctly parse the URL informationAttackers could launch a Unicode exploithttp://www.nopatchiss.com/scripts/...

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