Since the internet can be accessed by anyone, there are some individuals that take advantage of it and use it for their own benefit wherein they attack some of the servers. Most of the websites that can be accessed online are vulnerable from the various attacks especially if it is not being protected well.
The most common type of attack that a lot of hackers use is by spreading viruses in different websites wherein it damages the server and sometimes forced to shut it down. There are also individuals who attack the web server by hacking information and use it in making transaction. However, these are not the only thing that we must worry because there are top ten web attacks that can damage your server. Below are the known web attacks:
- Injection
- Insecure Direct Object References
- Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Broken Authentication and Session Management
- Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
- Failure to Restrict URL Access
- Security Misconfiguration
- Insecure Cryptographic Storage
- Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
Some of these attacks can still be prevented if you will protect your website accordingly. You don’t have to suffer the risk that these attacks brought into your server.
You can use the ‘Web Application Firewalls’ in protecting the web server from any malicious request. The IP packets that is being transferred the website are being filtered until it can no longer harm the server. Also, it particularly protect your web server from the most harmful attacks in the web these are the injection attacks, indirect object references, and cross site request forgeries.