Re: what are the top 5 usual suspects?



On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Travis wrote:

when performing an EXTERNAL pen-test / vulnerability assessments what
have you seen time and time again to be a big hole?

My favourites:
- weak passwords
- input validation errors in webforms
- not so often: a forgotten test system with vulnerable software sitting
before a firewall

Cheers,

Christine Kronberg.


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