What you need to know about Evil-Colon attacks

While novel attacks seem to emerge faster than TikTok trends, some warrant action before they’ve even had a chance to surface. This is the case for an attack we’ll refer to as Evil-Colon, which operates similarly to the now defunct Poison-NULL-Byte attacks. Though Poison-NULL-Byte attacks are now obsolete, they may have paved the path for new, similar attacks that could wreak havoc in your code if not dealt with properly. Case in point: When performing … More →

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