Sunday, June 8th, 2008
OK gang, this is one of those rare moments where feedback from community will directly influence a security feature that’ll make a real difference. First some background...
About 6 months ago Brandon Sterne left a cushy infosec position at eBay for Mozilla to solve an extremely important Web security problem he ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Recently Arshan Dabirsiaghi, Director of Research of Aspect Security, published a white paper entitled “Bypassing URL Authentication and Authorization with HTTP Verb Tampering”. Initially there was a lot of confusion about what exactly was being explained or claimed. Including, is it real? Is it novel? Is it dangerous? What is ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and Kicking
We were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A researcher has spotted a security problem in Facebook that could lead to hackers taking control of user accounts.
The flaw allows a hacker to execute scripts on Facebook that could potentially be used to create a fake log-in page and capture people's passwords, according to the XSSED security blog. The ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Developers of the Firefox browser are designing new technologies aimed at protecting users from some of the nastiest and most prevalent forms of website attacks.
One protection is designed to minimize end users' risk to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and cross-site request forgeries (CSRFs), both of which subvert basic internet security ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
A new attack on PayPal could have allowed users who thought they were on a trusted page to access a fraudulent page and possibly expose personal information. On Friday, Finnish researcher Harry Sintonen reported the vulnerability on an IRC chat room.
In an interview with Netcraft, Sintonen said the issue was ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Nowadays, who understands Di-Di-Di-Da-Da-Da-Di-Di-Dit (S.O.S., Save Our Souls)? Few people do, but your web browser just might. In his blog, security expert Nathan McFeters has reported the discovery of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on an Italian website that allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript encoded in Morse code in ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
This paper will help you configure your web browser for safer internet surfing. It is written for home computer users, students, small business workers, and any other person who works with limited Information Technology (IT) support and broadband (cable modem, DSL) or dial-up connectivity. Although the information in this document may ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
If you allow user-contributed content in your site, you run into the problem of dealing with user supplied HTML in a safe manner. The most secure way of dealing with things, of course, is to strip or escape all HTML from user input fields. Unfortunately, there are many situations where ...
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