Category:Attack

Application Security Threats

This category is for common types of application security attacks. These are the techniques that attackers use to exploit the vulnerabilities in applications. Attacks are often confused with vulnerabilities, so please try to be sure that the attack you are describing is something that an attacker would do, rather than a weakness in an application.

Some items to add
 * Brute Force Attacks
 * Account Lockout
 * Credential/Session Prediction
 * Unauthorized Access Attempts
 * Session Fixation
 * Session Hijacking
 * Cross-Site Scripting
 * Buffer Overflow Attack
 * Format String Attack
 * Directory Indexing
 * File Path Abuse
 * Traffic Flood
 * Automation of Functionality