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Posts tagged with "security"

Preventing cross-site scripting attacks

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:16:05 PM

Cross-site scripting attacks, also known as XSS attacks, are a type of vulnerability found in some web sites.

For example, if your blog comment box allows users to write JavaScript snippets that aren't escaped in any way by the server and are ran, it's most likely vulnerable to an XSS attack.

It's not just a problem with small, less known sites - Recently, even Google had an XSS vulnerability.

XSS attacks are, however, quite easy to prevent if you know how.

WLAN routers are tools of evil crackers!

Friday, February 2, 2007 11:27:15 PM

security, wlan

Did you know most WLAN routers these days can be used to scan for other networks and.. um.. invade them.

The innocent looking little box can be a serious security threat, also to your very own data.

Me

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Let’s Rickroll MTV Europe Music Awards 2008!
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Windows Remote Desktop + Live FolderShare = Ul ...
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Sharing authentication over multiple sites / S ...
At The Group, we’re developing some web applications that needed to use the same user database. The applications were originally being developed with separate login for each, but I decided it would be better to share the login code across them. I investigated some ways to achieve sharing a ...