Terminology

A brute force attack is a  cryptanalytic method that allow to find any password. The goal is to test all the possibilities one by one. This method is considered almost of the time to be the best because it can break any password if we don’t track time because the longer the password is, the longer it […]

A WordPress Exploit means “to use something to one’s own advantage”, it is a piece of code or commands that can take advantage of a vulnerability to cause unintended behavior on your website like gaining control of it, allowing privilege escalation, or a denial-of-service (DoS or related DDoS) attack.

SQL injection attack is an insertion of a SQL content in a query using the client input data of a web application. If the exploit is done, the SQL injection can read data from the database or modify database data and even execute administration operations on the database.

A Web Application Firewall also knew as a WAF is an firewall only for HTTP applications. It sets rules to all HTTP requests. These rules cover common attacks such as XSS attack and SQL injection.

A security flaw is a involuntary weakness despite the developer and in contrary of a malicious flaw. This is a vulnerability, that can be exploited but not designed to be. Usually the developer takes this seriously and release a patch to fix this security flaw. Security flaws are not created but discovered.