Analysing security threats for Singapore Writers Festival’s web solution, making the application compatible to Singapore Govt. guidelines

Singapore Writers Festival application was being managed by the Singapore Govt. (Arts Council). They faced some threats that the application was defaced for which they approached Web Spiders to analyze the application vulnerabilities and fix the corresponding issues within their hosted WAMP environment.

What we did

Application scanned with automated tools and reported around 700 occurrances of the threat entry points from the application.
Manual threat investigations done to confirm the exploits in the application.
Evidences collected and a comprehensive detailed reports being shared with the client through secure process.

Solution Highlights

Web Spiders analysed the application based on the threats listed based on OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project).
The top listed vulnerabilities are checked through automated scanning process.
PHP, MySQL and server configurations are carried forward in order to make the environment capable to resist the threats.

What we achieved

The team achieved to make the application non-vulnerable at that moment.
All the threats and open areas for the defacement has been neutralize to stop continuous hacking attempts in the application.