Cloudmersive·Sep 18, 2023Why Should I Worry about Invalid File Uploads?Apart from causing all kinds of data quality issues, there’s a significant risk associated with allowing unrestricted invalid file uploads…
Cloudmersive·Jun 30, 2023How to Detect Files Containing Macros in your File Upload Process using RubyMalicious macros can unleash devastating cyberattacks once activated. Given the scope of that threat, it’s generally prudent to remove any…
Cloudmersive·Jun 30, 2023How to Block Files with Password Protection using RubyFiles from unknown external sources with password protection measures shouldn’t be stored in our application’s database. If those files…
Cloudmersive·Jun 29, 2023How to Identify Invalid Files & Scan Files for Viruses in One Request using RubyMasquerading file types are inherently dangerous. If, for example, our file validation process identifies a PDF extension containing…
Cloudmersive·Jun 23, 2023How to Detect Password Protected Files in your File Upload Process using JavaScriptWhile document security is an important practice in general, we don’t want client-side uploads with password protection entering our…
Cloudmersive·Jun 20, 2023How to Detect Unsafe Archives using GoThreat actors are very aware of how convenient archive formats are for everyday file sharing and file security. That makes it relatively…
Cloudmersive·Jun 20, 2023How to Scan Files for HTML Threats in GoFiles with top level HTML input can conceal a variety of hidden threats, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and local file access…
Cloudmersive·Jun 16, 2023How to Check Files for Insecure Deserialization Threats in GoFiles containing malicious JSON objects won’t be flagged by your typical file scanning solution. Thankfully, the free-to-use API provided…
Cloudmersive·Jun 15, 2023How to Detect and Block Password Protected File Threats using GoPassword protected files are frequently used to bypass weakly configured file security policies and eventually inject malware payloads…
Cloudmersive·Jun 14, 2023How to Identify Invalid File Uploads using GoInvalid file types can carry a variety of hidden threats, so it’s important that our applications never blindly trust a file’s encoding…