Security

How to secure the Passwords of Users in Web Applications?

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon26th Apr 2023
Generally while working with Web applications, one of the important data related to Users is their passwords, and keeping them secured is one of the important jobs of the Web application. In this article we gonna see a brief how a developer or admin can make sure the passwords are secure on the web application. Here are some best practices to secure passwords in web applications: Use Strong Pa

Secure your Web Application's Reset Password flow

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon22nd Jan 2023
Generally any application framework provides users to have a flow to reset the passwords by default, It is more like, use clicking on the Reset Password link and redirects to a page where he will asked for email, and reset link sent to users email, so that user can reset the password on their own. This is a default or general flow that any application framework provides, but developers or archite

How does Captcha know that I'm not a Robot?

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon11th Jan 2023
Almost all the developers working on web applications would have come across captcha or re-captcha. And developers might have also used them on the web pages before authentication of users on web applications or before showing specific content to users. As developers, we might have got a thought like how will this work behind the scenes, but in most of the cases, we developers would have ignored

Usage of Local Php Security Checker for Drupal Applications

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon23rd Jul 2022
In this article, we are going to see how the Local PHP Security Checker library will make people's lives easier during the development & code review process. To make developer life easier, developers look for tools or libraries which can automated security review. Here comes the Local PHP Security Checker library, which checks for any known vulnerabilities in the package dependencies. Th

Store Secrets Securely on Pantheon for Drupal Application

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon10th Jun 2022
In this article, we are going to see how people can store access keys and tokens securely, in the case of your drupal application that is managed on pantheon. Generally, all the Access keys or Tokens or any Secret third party auth information should not be stored in the database or within the project web root, Its safe to store it encrypted and within a file, and keep the file outside of the proj

Fix SSL error 61 in Citrix Web Receiver on Ubuntu

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon5th Jul 2021
This article is about fixing only a single error which you see with Citrix Web Receiver on the Ubuntu machines. This might be a simple & specific issue, but people who are facing this issue will really feel grateful with the solution provided. After you install the Citrix web receiver on Ubuntu machine & while you try to connect, in some cases no connection to system

Security Hardening - Nginx Response Headers

ByKarthik Kumar D Kon20th Jun 2021
Now-a-days, web based attacks are one of the most common types of cybercrime, and in most cases, the attacked protocol is the HTTP, while the component that receives the attacks is the web server. Hardening Nginx HTTP headers becomes necessary for reducing any attacks to the web server. And how to harden Nginx response HTTP headers? - HTTP headers are pieces of infor
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