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Surveying the OWASP Top 10

Surveying the OWASP Top 10

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Surveying the OWASP Top 10

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- [Instructor] As I mentioned earlier in the course, the OWASP organization is a non-profit organization that works to improve the security of software. And it has thousands of members and hundreds of chapters worldwide, and they have different projects. One of the most popular projects from OWASP is the OWASP top 10, and it's basically a list of security risk in modern web applications. And as you're seeing here, you know, the latest version of this list is from 2021. So it's a couple of years old, however, they updated every five to six years or so. As you see in the diagram here, the previous list was from 2017, and a few things change. Now they concentrate into categories. And the only vulnerability that actually has its own category is server site request forgery, as you see here in the screen, right? But these categories include things that have been very well known and unfortunately problematic in the last several years, you know, at least 10 years. One is broken access…

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