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Two essential pieces of the Web’s security infrastructure are weakened if Web-View and its APIs are used: the Trusted Computing Base at the client side, and the sandbox protection implemented by browsers.
This paper performs the first large-scale analysis of HTTP inclusion in WebViews across 189,779 Google Play apps and identifies high-profile apps with 10M+ installations vulnerable to attacks ranging from phishing to full app takeover.
This work presents TENET, a purpose-built auditing tool whose design decisions are grounded in the structural properties of the secrets targeted and empirically validated against a ground-truth dataset, and proposes mitigation measures and best practices for both Telegram platform developers and third-party Mini App cr...
Mobile apps frequently embed sensitive secrets, such as API keys, access tokens, client secrets, and private keys that support internal functionality or enable integration with external systems and third-party services. Developers frequently embed these secrets into Android apps, which allows attackers to extract them...
A security assessment on 75 FastAPI backends generated by three contemporary LLMs revealed a disconnect between functional correctness and secure logic, which is interpreted as a review-risk pattern, which is called the human-in-the-loop paradox.
PyWAF, a Python-based WAF developed as a reverse proxy that offers flexible protection across heterogeneous web servers against SQLi attacks, was evaluated in compatibility testing and reliability testing across three popular web server environments namely Apache, Nginx, and OpenLiteSpeed.
Web applications are among the most frequently targeted systems in today’s cyber-threat landscape, and vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting and various configuration errors have dominated the OWASP Top 10 list for years. This article examines the security of a web application using modern vulnera...
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