DoS attacks using wildcards
Posted on June 5, 2008 - Filed Under filtering input | Leave a Comment
Say, your web application processes all this data and shows it back to the user, and your code doesn’t check number of records that has been asked for, then your application is also affected. An application level DoS. …
Read More..>>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 …
Read More..>>HP Helps Businesses Defend Against Malicious Web Attacks with New …
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..>>Ed Finkler’s Blog: Inspekt 0.3 now available
Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under Input Filtering | Leave a Comment
Ed Finkler has released the latest version of his Inspekt input filtering/output validation library for PHP5: I’ve uploaded the 0.3 release of Inspekt, the input filtering and validation library for PHP4 and 5. …
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14 Security Tips For Developing With PHP and MySQL
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Do not use user input directly in your SQL queries. Use mysql_real_escape_string() to escape the user input. PHP.net recommends this function: (well a little different). PLAIN TEXT. PHP:. function escape($values) { …
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RE: Official ZF QuickStart
Posted on January 1, 1970 - Filed Under security | Leave a Comment
For security reasons, it is inadvisable to keep your application\’s scripts in a directory that your web server makes publicly accessible. In this case, index.php immediately hands over control to your bootstrap.php file, which resides …
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The Tainted Edition
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In my opinion security is a process and you have to reconcile for each and every string what it represents and how to escape it in this context. Of course an automatic escaper can be a great help, but …
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Top Ten Security Tips Every Developer Must Know
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Security risks can come from anywhere. You could write bad error handling code or be too generous with permissions. You could forget what services are running on your server. You could accept all user input. And the list goes on. …
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JIRA Security Advisory 2007-12-24
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The fix is to escape all of the error messages rendered on the 500 page, so that no user input, which is propagated to …
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What is SQL Injection?
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We can validate all the inputs of the user by:. 1. We reject entries that contain binary data, escape sequences, and comment characters to verify input from …
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