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5 XSS Exploits You Should Know About

frank — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:30:08 +0000

Following on from my HTTP Splitting post, this post rounds up 5 common cross site scripting (xss) attacks and how to prevent them. Stored XSS Reflected XSS XSS Phishing CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) XST Cross Site Tracing Preventing XSS Stored XSS Basic XSS exploits often take 2 forms: Stored XSS Reflected XSS Stored xss essentially means the code to exploit the vulnerability is stored and [...]

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HTTP Cache Poisoning

frank — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:30:03 +0000

I have started working through the WebGoat tutorials from OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). The first tute covering HTTP splitting and cache poisoning was difficult enough for me to start with, and in fact I could write a whole post on installing WebGoat and WebScarab which was an achievement in itself. Half the reason I [...]

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5 XSS Exploits You Should Know About

Install Eclipse 3.3 On Ubuntu 8.04

frank — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:09:26 +0000

This is just a quick post. I’ve had numerous problems with eclipse 3.2 PDT and Aptana on my Hardy Heron install; updates have broken functionality in the past and many problems with memory allocation. After installing the PyDev plugin the other night to try out Django my PDT and Aptana installs were destroyed and so [...]

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Tip of the Week : Non capturing groups in Perl regular expressions

frank — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:22:22 +0000

Non capturing groups are very handy, recently I was working on grabbing a portion of xml out of a document. After trying the PHP 5 xmlReader() class I opted for the quick and dirty Perl regular expressions for this script. Problem is with the dot/period operator . which matches any character except for newlines \n. So the [...]

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iPond application

jt — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:18:08 +0000

Editors Note: This is a guest article from Jon at BigBeard Games and Activate Design. Through the dark murky swamp of lame applications shines a beacon of light…and it’s called iPond. This is a unique game unlike anything else available on the iPhone today. The iPond has a fantastic array of cute and colourful creatures for you [...]

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“Click” by Bill Tancer

frank — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:13 +0000

I’m not really qualified to write a book review on “Click” by Bill Tancer. Especially considering I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the topic of human behaviour (well, like everyone else I’ve read Malcolm Gladwells books of course) and also considering that “Click” was so easy to read and hard to put down I chewed through it [...]

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Blackberry 8800 html checkbox issues

frank — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:49:41 +0000

This was such a mission to fix, it deserves a post. Starting with a very basic login page using standard html form elements, a couple of text inputs for username and password, a checkbox to accept terms and conditions and a submit button. The login system would work fine on very early blackberries version 3.7.0 [...]

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Blackberry Simulator on Windows

How does the Internet Work?

frank — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:53:51 +0000

* This article is really just a collection of notes for my own use which are semi readable and summarised for other people to read. How does the Internet Work? Its a pretty straight forward question, and one that I stumbled over in an interview a few months ago so I’m starting from scratch to [...]

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New Branding!

frank — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:25:29 +0000

We’ve decided on deadlytechnology.com as the home for the new blog. There isn’t much of a story behind the new name but I had spent a good few days with new domain names running through the back of my mind and couldn’t come up with much. There were the typical web 2.0 names like: meebo [...]

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Thoughts on facebook and twitter

frank — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:09:15 +0000

There seems to be a lot of disquiet about the facebook changes. This installment of UI changes are coupled with the obligatory ‘We hate the changes’ groups and polls counting hundreds of thousands of users. Which might be a healthy sign from Facebook’s perspective - every time they roll out changes they resurrect their own [...]