wiki:plugins:security - Add some material on XSS
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It is usually safer to parse the users input to check that they are only using the permitted attributes, rather than to try to parse out the prohibited attributes. This is often referred to as \”whitelisting\” the permitted things in …
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Hacker Network Security HandBook
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turn on local echo, set authentication to NTLM, set the escape. character, and set up logging. • SET NTLM turns on NTLM. While you are using NTLM Authentication, you are not. …
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Review of The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
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All in all I highly recommend this book to pen testers, web application developers and anyone interested in the evolution of web security. Its great to see all this information in one place and my minor grumbles above certainly do not …
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Web Security Scanning Is Paramount
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–SECURITY MATTERS BLOG: Spam and Phishing; Dangerous Medical Devices; Web Application Security by Mark Joseph Edwards MX Logic says spam and phishing are on the rise; poor security-related decision making in the creation of medical …
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Misconceptions about AIR
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Another, related difference is that AIR lets apps escape browser chrome such as the forward/back buttons and the address bar. I can see that app designers would love that — yay for integrity of artistic vision! …
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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Alpha + Internet Explorer 8 Beta + ESET.Nod32 …
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Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: \”look up\” information within a webpage or \”send\” web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. …
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Web Application Vulnerability Assessment Essentials: Your First …
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It ll show you what you can reasonably expect a web application security scanner to accomplish, and what types of assessments still require expert eyes. The following two articles will show you how to remedy the web security risks a …
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update
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That’s why this is an web app security lab. People visit this site (or should, at least) with the knowledge that we are pushing the boundaries of what’s know about web application security. We aren’t talking about yesterday’s problems. …
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PHPIDS 0.4.5 is ready to use
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The exploit and filter circumventions they found were awesome as usual and got our team surprised a lot. JavaScript is a hell of a language - and so is SQL… …
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PHPIDS - Security Layer & Intrusion Detection for PHP Based Web …
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PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application. The IDS neither strips, sanitizes nor filters any malicious input, …
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