Does AppDetectivePro check for application-level Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow weaknesses?
AppDetectivePro checks if your applications are vulnerable to any DoS attacks or Buffer Overflows. Denial of Services attacks do exist on the database and application level. These types of attacks cause applications to fail or stop responding to requests. Possible DoS attacks on a database could result in the database crashing or failing to respond to connection requests or SQL queries. DoS attacks can result from sending malformed packets to the application or sending information the database does not expect. DoS attacks can be useful as a form of vandalism by unsophisticated attackers or can be used in spoofing and hijacking attempts by very sophisticated attackers. Buffer overflows also exist within applications and databases, and are categorized as “Vulnerabilities” within AppDetectivePro. A vulnerability is a specific attack that can result in an unauthorized user causing the application to perform an action the application was not intended to perform. A vulnerability within an ap
