Vulnerability classifications
Vulnerabilities can be classified into the following categories:
- Misconfiguration: You'll hear me preach about this all the time because it's one of the most common vulnerabilities. Misconfiguration is caused by human error. It allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to your systems. There are different types of misconfigurations because they could happen on application platforms, databases, the network itself, and even web servers. As misconfiguration could occur because someone may have forgotten to update the application or the database. They may have disabled the security settings or some features that are needed, or they may have gone set up permissions incorrectly or misconfigured SSL certificates.
- Default installation vulnerabilities: These are typically done when we hit the Next options during installation. I get it. Sometimes, this happens. Installing an application where the attackers and everybody else are expecting...