Saturday, January 30th, 2010 I just wanted to show a quick example of using Incognito to impersonate user tokens on a compromised system. You can think of tokens as a web "cookie" which is just an object that holds your security information for the entire login process so that you don't have to re-authenticate ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Most web application security experts frown on the practice of passing session or authentication tokens in a URL through the use of URL rewriting. Usually these tokens are passed between the server and the browser through HTTP cookies, but in cases where users configure their browsers to not accept cookies, ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 A researcher has developed a browser extension that stops advertising networks from tracking a person's surfing habits, such as search queries and content they view on the web.The extension, called Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO), enables its users to opt out of 27 advertising networks that are employing behavioural advertising ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Gmail is Google's "free webmail service. It comes with built-in Google search technology and over 2,600 megabytes of storage (and growing every day). You can keep all your important messages, files and pictures forever, use search to quickly and easily find anything you're looking for, and make sense of it ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that a new variant of the Koobface worm is spreading on Facebook.Koobface first appeared in 2008, with separate variants striking members of Facebook and MySpace.com. Now the Koobface worm is back again, with an eye toward stealing cookies for other social networking sites.According to ...
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