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Exploring the OWASP Top 10 risks in web applications

Exploring the OWASP Top 10 risks in web applications

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Exploring the OWASP Top 10 risks in web applications

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- Earlier in the course, you learned about the OWASP nonprofit organization that is extremely popular. They have a lot of different projects and different deliverables that has helped the community and the security industry for many years. So if you're not familiar with them, I strongly recommend for you to become familiar with the OWASP Foundation. One of their flagship projects, if you will, is the OWASP Top 10. Basically these are the top 10 risks that assist in web applications in the industry. Now, they update this list on a periodic basis, not in a yearly basis, but several years ago, that was a last update, and I don't think that they're going to update it for a little bit of more time. And, as you can see, the last version was from 2021, so a few years ago. But, again, all these attacks are still relevant. And what these are, are different categories of vulnerabilities, except the last type of vulnerability is called server-side request forgery, that basically go over the…

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