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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'web application security'


Browser Sniffing

We've just posted an article in the Digital Library on browser sniffing. Here is an excerpt:...

Basics of Threat Modeling

Threat modeling is a design practice that helps us understand they types of attacks and vulnerabilities that can adversely affect our applications. In this podcast, we examine the basic steps in threat modeling and describe a tool for supporting threat...

Design Flaws Hamper Online Banking Security

Researchers at the University of Michigan are reporting that 75% of 214 online banking sites had significant design flaws. At first this did not sound surprising, assuming the design flaws were minor tradeoffs between security and usability but that wasn't...

Yet Another Form of Injection Attack: Web Redirects

Brian Kreb's Security Fix discusses some research out of Indiana University on how phishers and others can use open redirects in legitimate Web sites. In addition to the clear examples of hacked redirects Krebs provides, I add that this is...

Database Complexity is a Security Problem

At about the same time Oracle is releasing its quarterly patch, Sun is announcing MySQL 5.1, a major upgrade that brings more standard relational DBMS functionality to the open source platform. Is Oracle at risk of adding so many features...

Ajax Security Overview: Problems and Solutions

We've just posted a new article for developers on how to use Ajax without introducing a host of vulnerabilities. Starting from the fundamental premise that we can't trust the client, the article describes three techniques for improving the security...

Patching for Web 2.0 Vulnerabilities

You may have woken up this morning to find your PC automatically rebooted after a Microsoft critical update. This time around, Microsoft provided critical patches for MS Project, Graphics Device Interface (GDI), VBScript and JScript, and a vulnerability in ActiveX...

Trusted but Compromised Sites: How to Protect Yourself

There are now more compromised Web sites distributing malware than sites established just for that purpose. How are we supposed to protect ourselves from these unwitting pushers of malware? There are no easy answers but a combination of steps to...

Will There Be A Pause in the Web 2.0 Party?

Web 2.0 security vulnerabilities are well known and it's almost as well known that these aren't really new - the difference with Web 1.0 is more of quantity than quality. Web 2.0 tools and techniques let us build apps faster,...

Trends in Malware

Malware is becoming more resilient, in part, because of increasingly sophisticated infrastructure for distributing and controlling malware. This podcasts looks at these themes especially with regard to distribution mechanisms for malware, techniques for protecting compromised devices like fast flux, the...

Fortune 500 FTP Credential for Sale

Cybercrime is making sales on line and credentials to ftp sites is one of the latest discovered offerings. Finjan reports in ther Malicious Page of the Month report that 8700 ftp credentials of corporations and government agencies are available through...

McAfee Foresees Growing Threat from Botnets and Vulnerable Web Services

McAfee is looking to the recent past and predicting that two of the biggest problems we'll face in the next year are more resilient and dangerous botnets and more attacks on Web sites. vnunet.com notes: Many of the threats to...

Good Tips for the Security Novice

I was a little hesitant to click through on a BusinesssWeek article entitled "Looming Online Security Threats in 2008". It isn't even Thanksgiving yet and already Christmas decorations are in the stores and doom and gloom predictions for 2008 are...

Ways to Avoid Cross Site Scripting Attacks

We've just posted a new article in the Messaging and Web Security library entitled Web Developers Guide to Avoiding Cross Site Scripting Attacks. You can download it here. If you're a Web developer you've probably heard about cross site scripting...

Poor Web 2.0 Design Harms Usability and Security

History is repeating itself. Poor usability was a problem with client server apps back when Visual Basic opened GUI design to pretty much every programmer. Then easy to use HTML tools turned us all into graphic designers. Now Web 2.0...

Web 2.0 Small but Still Weak on Security

Wow, lots of talk about the Pew report on Web 2.0. There's nothing like a report on omnivores to get them going. (Omnivores, according to Pew, are those who "participate in cyberspace and express themselves online and do a range...

Ajax Security Risks

Billy Hoffman of SPI Dynamics is speaking out about the risks of JavaScript and Ajax and was quoted in a recent InfoWorld article. One of the most telling quotes about the state of Web application security from Hoffman is: "In...

10 Steps for Web Application Deployment

Web application deployment requires careful planning a number of security checks. This podcast desribes a 10 step process spanning application testing and configuration, through multiple levels of security checks to penatration testing....

Why Push Dell for Linux and OpenOffice?

The IdeaStorm site at Dell is collecting suggestions from customers and he most widely sought changes center around the pre-installed Linux and OpenOffice. Why is there this push to Linux and OpenOffice? Here are some possibilities. 1. The voting population...

Google Docs & Spreadsheet Security and Privacy

We are going to keep more and more of our work on central servers, whether on private company servers or on Google's or some other third party. There have been a lot of good discussion about the security and privacy...

Can Google Apps Improve Security?

I've been arguing for shifting from desktop appliciations network based applications because we can more effectively secure servers and high-powered client devices are too much of a resource for spammers and botnet herders. Now Google is making Google Apps official...

Rich Internet Application (RIA) Security

Web applications are gaining features of client server applications and with this new functionality comes additional security risks. This podcast describes several techniques that should be used in RIAs to improve the security of those applications....

Compliance and Web Application Security

Regulations made clear the need to protect the privacy and integrity of information. One aspect of meeting those requirements is securing Web applications that collect, manage and analyze that information. This podcast examines some common security problems in Web applications...

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