XSS Vulnerabilities in Common Shockwave Flash Files
Posted on May 30, 2008 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment
Do not rely on the “escape()†function. Depending on the context, whitelist, URL encode, and/or HTML entity encode user input in “htmlText†fields Within your Flash applications, load supporting SWF files, images, and sounds from …
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Posted on May 29, 2008 - Filed Under programming | Leave a Comment
I think Mozilla tends to get the easy stuff, like avoiding buffer overflows and validating/escaping input, right. But we don’t do very well at “Don’t make your data structure invariants so complex that you cannot keep track of them.” …
Read More..>>Question about scripting attacks and security… in Programming …
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under programming | Leave a Comment
I know when you’re displaying data from the database, you should always use the html_escape (h) method to escape injections or other attacks in case someone input javascript or code to run:. Code : - fold - unfold …
Read More..>>Lets examine security.
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment
Encode all posts or user inputed data. You’ll have to sanitize user input, by disabling users the ability to put HTML tags & Javascript on pages, this is called escaping. Javascript escape(); Parse all HTML data as to make sure code …
Read More..>>Protect Your Site and Your Users Against Cross-Site Scripting
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment
These attacks rely on user input being returned back to the user with no modifications, and so they can easily be prevented by ensuring you escape all HTML entities before sending them back to the user. This means encoding characters …
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Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment
According to the Web Application Security Consortium, an international group of application security experts and industry practitioners, more than 40 percent of web hacking incidents are aimed at stealing personal information. …
Read More..>>How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under programming | Leave a Comment
responseText.substring(18,58); } function ShowTicket() { var ticket = GetTicket(); alert(ticket); } function GoPlugin() { var ticket = GetTicket(); window.open(”/QvPlugin/opendoc.htm?document=”+ escape(document. …
Read More..>>Web Application Programmer Wits.
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment
Key thing to notice is that I am a developer as well as a security blogger myself, and so forth know what I am talking about. So I want to take this opportunity to make something clear about programming a secure web application. …
Read More..>>Advanced Web Application Security
Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment
The security landscape has changed dramatically in the past 12 months. Unless you are aware of CSRF, Javascript Highjacking and the many ways to fool an XSS filter, it’s likely that your web application will not be secure. …
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Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment
Because it’s used for key input filtering. The Javascript handler can “return false” to tell the browser to ignore a given key. It’s also complicated because things like “control-v” for “paste”, and “home” for “go to start of the input” …
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