Imperva Recognized as a Best Place to Work in Israel

It is not easy and takes many things to create a winning workplace, including and certainly not limited to: a vibrant culture, a balanced approach to professional and personal life, career advancement opportunities and, most importantly, a group of talented, world-class professionals who care abo...

Recent NPM package hack is an alarming reminder of the risks of website supply-chain fraud

There are over 1.8 billion websites online today. Almost 98% of them are powered by JavaScript, and for a good reason: JavaScript’s flexibility and portability enable the rich online functionality we’ve all come to know and love. But when that same functionality becomes a significant vector for...

Forrester report suggests Imperva Data Protection delivers high value and rapid ROI

In mid-2021, Imperva commissioned Forrester Research to interview five current Imperva enterprise customers - two in the financial services industry and three in the insurance industry. The goal of the exercise was to gain insight into the economic impact of deploying the Imperva data security...

Learning how MTU and MSS work is key to using DDoS Protection as a Service

Maximum Transmit Unit MTU and Maximum Segment Size MSS are two important terms you should be familiar with when venturing into the world of networking, especially if you are working with GRE and IPSEC tunnels. And if you are looking to use DDoS Protection as a service, you will need to know how M...

Serverless protection for execution environments made easy

Serverless computing is transforming the way we build, ship, automate, and scale applications. With no infrastructure to manage, organizations can move from ideation to market faster, with virtually no operational overhead. Consequently, these enterprises can now focus on just the code that serve...

Imperva Cloud Data Security adds Azure SQL support to build on extensive DBaaS coverage

It’s kind of mind boggling to see just how fast the market is adopting cloud managed database services also referred to as DBaaS. According to market research firm Imarc Group, In 2020, the overall market size was $12.8 billion, and within five years it’s expected to reach over $31 billion. That’...

Fostering the Next Generation of Female Technologists at Imperva

Today marks the start of the 2021 Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest gathering of female technology leaders in the world. Last year, over 40,000 women from 117 different countries attended virtually, bringing together their research and career interests to help inform and inspire others. As...

Imperva An Eight-Time Magic Quadrant Leader for Web Application and API Protection

2021 has seen a lot of change. Billionaires now go where only governments and Red Bull gimmicks could go before. The 2020 Olympics didn’t take place in 2020. Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl for a completely new franchise those of you in the US get this reference. Similar change in application...

How to Exploit SQL Server Using OLE Automation

As part of the Imperva Research Labs we have the opportunity to examine various security scenarios. In this post, we will consider database security on SQL Server. One standard method that security practitioners use to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for hackers to take the...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in imran300/inventory

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the product name when adding a new categorie in the product page. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/inventory/index.php/Category/listcategory and click on add category and copy paste the following xss payload and paste it in the...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in leantime/leantime

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the todo name when adding a todo item 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/tickets/showKanban and add a todo item and copy paste the following xss payload in the todo-name javascript " Click on safe and go to the My Timesheets tab and see...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

Bad bot activity on sports betting websites rises during Euro 2020

Across Europe, the EURO 2020 tournament captivated fans over the past month, with Italy ultimately defeating England to take home the cup on July 11. As fans eagerly watched the matches, Imperva Research Labs was busy monitoring activity that wasn’t happening on the playing field -- but across a...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in omeka/omeka-s

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the Title when adding a new site. the xss is getting executed when you are trying to delete the website, see the PoC for details. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/omeka/omeka-s/admin/site and click on add new site copy paste the...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in leantime/leantime

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the Hypothesis when adding a new Research 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/leancanvas/simpleCanvas and click on add new and copy paste the following xss payload javascript " Click on safe and see the xss popup with the cookie. 💥...

jSonar to Begin a New Chapter in Collaboration

A message from JSonar co-founder and CTO, Ron Bennatan. My wife complains that I’m a boring person. I’ve been doing the same thing for 25 years now – databases, then security, then database security, then data security and then some data lake security. But by that account Tom Brady is a boring...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in devcode-it/openstamanager

✍️ Description Stored xss through file upload via anagrafiche 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Go to an existing Anagrafiche or create a new one. Upload a .svg file with the following content: javascript alertdocument.cookie; give a name you want ending with .svg store-xss.svg for example. when you click on...

Infographic: Bad Bot Sophistication Levels

All bad bots interact with applications in the same way a legitimate user would, making them harder to detect and block. They enable high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks on your websites, mobile apps, and APIs. They allow bot operators, attackers, unsavory competitors, and fraudsters to perform ...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 4, Trends in Average Volumes of Stolen Records

Imperva research shows an increase in the volume of data stolen every year. In 2020, we started to see more and more breaches that exfiltrate records in billions. Based on the analysis of thousands of data breach details published on dbdigest, we made calculations on the raw data and found some...