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XML Injection Attacks

What is an XML Injection Attack? Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an encoding standard that assists in the creation, retrieval, and storage of documents. It consists of a tag structure that identifies specific information within a document1. Unlike HTML, XML is not limited to a specific set of tags, because a single tag set would […]

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Security Misconfigurations

What are Security Misconfigurations? Security misconfigurations are a result of security settings not being defined or implemented, and default values are maintained. This typically means that configuration settings do not comply with industry security standards which are critical to maintaining security and reducing risk. Security misconfigurations happen most often when a system administrator or database […]