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Why Your Business Needs Bot Protection Solution?

Jul 9, 2024 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
Our latest application security report shows a significant rise in bot attacks, jumping from 59.4 million in Q1 2023 to 147 million in Q1 2024—a 147% increase. These automated programs can disrupt services, compromise sensitive data, and threaten the integrity of online operations. To effectively mitigate these risks, businesses must adopt a robust bot protection solution.
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Why Do You Need Cloud-Based DDoS Protection?

Jul 8, 2024 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
The cloud offers unparalleled flexibility and scalability, from data storage to maintaining an online presence. However, this increased reliance on cloud infrastructure also brings heightened risks, particularly from DDoS attacks. Recent incidents underscore the urgent need for robust DDoS protection. For instance, the HTTP/2-based DDoS attack peaked last August, reaching over 398 million requests per second.
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Application Layer DDoS Attack - What it is, Types & Mitigation

Jul 4, 2024 By Vivek Gopalan In Indusface
An application layer DDoS attack, also known as a Layer 7 (L7) DDoS attack, targets the application layer of the OSI model. This type of DDoS attack focuses on disrupting specific functions or features of a website or online service. Layer 7 attacks leverage loopholes, vulnerabilities, or business logic flaws in the application layer to orchestrate the attacks. Here are the key characteristics and methods: Examples of L7 attacks are Slowloris, GET/POST Floods, etc.
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10 Botnet Detection and Removal Best Practices

Jun 28, 2024 By Venkatesh Sundar In Indusface
If your device suddenly behaves like a re-animated zombie, it might be under a botnet attack. Botnet attacks, also known as zombie armies, involve hijacking internet-connected devices infected with malware, controlled remotely by a single hacker. These attacks can reach immense scales, as demonstrated by an incident where 1.5 million connected cameras were exploited to overwhelm and take down a journalist’s website.
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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks? [ 17 Best Practices]

Jun 27, 2024 By Venkatesh Sundar In Indusface
In 2021, Amazon suffered a financial setback of around $34 million due to a one-hour system outage that led to a considerable loss in sales. Meta suffered a loss of nearly $100M because of Facebook’s 2021 outage. The consequences of downtime can be severe, and businesses of all sizes and governments can be affected. A DDoS attack can bring a business to a complete standstill for hours, leading to a substantial loss in revenue.
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AppTrana Bot Management Enhancements - User-Defined Bot Policies and More

Jun 25, 2024 By Arvind Sastry In Indusface
Have you ever wanted to fine-tune the configuration of your Bot Management? With self-service rules, you get finer control over bot scoring and customize it according to user behavior on your applications. In this blog, we will cover three use cases that will explain how to use this feature.
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Fundamentals of Origin Server Protection

Jun 24, 2024 By Phani Deepak Akella In Indusface
Servers host applications and services; therefore, they are the center of all web, mobile, and API applications. These origin servers are under constant attack as hackers run probes to exploit open vulnerabilities and launch large-scale DDoS attacks that could bring down the entire infrastructure. Therefore, ensuring availability and protecting the integrity of origin servers is paramount. This article will cover what, why, and how of origin protection.
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Black Box Security Testing - Process, Types and Techniques

Jun 17, 2024 By Vinugayathri Chinnasamy In Indusface
With cybercrime costs projected to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025, securing digital assets is more critical than ever. Black box testing in security has become a key strategy for organizations to identify vulnerabilities in software and systems proactively. This blog delves into the essential role of black box security testing in mitigating risks along with its various types and techniques.
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CVE-2024-4577 - A PHP CGI Argument Injection Vulnerability in Windows Servers

Jun 10, 2024 By Vivek Chanchal In Indusface
On June 7, 2024, a new critical PHP vulnerability CVE-2024-4577 was revealed, mainly impacting XAMPP on Windows. It happens when PHP runs in CGI mode with specific language settings, like Chinese or Japanese. The problem comes from how PHP handles certain characters, allowing attackers to inject code through web requests and take control of servers. This vulnerability, if exploited, could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, a scenario with severe consequences for system integrity and data security.
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Account Takeover, SQL Injection and DDoS Attack Simulation on APIs

May 28, 2024 By Indusface In Indusface
Overview: According to TechTarget, 94% of organizations experience security problems in production APIs, and one in five suffers a data breach. The primary reason is that most tech leaders assume that having a strong authentication and authorisation framework is enough to secure APIs. As a result, cyberattacks on APIs increased from 35% in 2022 to 46% in 2023, and this trend continues to rise. Join Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivekanand Gopalan Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface, in this webinar as they demonstrate how APIs can be hacked.
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