Code review to find vulnerabilities in web applications
Perform source code review to find vulnerabilities in web applications. Reviewing code is probably the best way to find vulnerabilities in a web application. It’s a lot faster than black-box testing, and it helps you learn how to program safely in the future by observing the mistakes of others. If you are interested in open-source software, auditing code is also a great way to get involved in the open-source community and help secure the tools you love. Here are a few tricks I’ve learned along the way to audit source code more effectively. Let me know if you have any additional tips for conducting source code reviews. How to look for bugs There are several ways to go about hunting for vulnerabilities in source code. Depending on how thorough you want to be, here are some approaches that you could take. The “I’ll take what I can get” The “I’ll take what I can get” approach works great if you don’t need extensive test coverage. This could be because you have very limited ...