Testing heartbleed and SSL/TLS vulnerabilities

This section explains how to test whether a website is safe from SQL injection using the sqlmap penetration-testing tool. sqlmap is an automated tool for finding and exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities injecting values in the parameters of the queries.

Introducing OpenSSL

Openssl is an implementation of SSL and TLS protocols that is widely used by servers of all types; a fairly high percentage of servers on the internet use it to ensure communication between clients and servers using strong encryption mechanisms.

However, it is an implementation that throughout its years of development has been violated on several occasions, affecting the confidentiality and privacy of user...