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Web security - Cross Site Request Forgeries CSRF
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Behind the barbarian word (which is pronounced "Sea Surf"), hides a very real attack vector, and easier to exploit than XSS (and one does not exclude the other). CSRF is about abusing the site's trust in users; and it is...
Web security - Cross Site Scripting XSS
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The Cross site scripting (abbreviated XSS to avoid confusion with the CSS), is one of the most common attacks in the Internet world today. It is about manipulating data from a private user without his knowledge.
Web security - Shared Accomodation
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Today, more and more individuals and companies are attracted by the price of the "cloud". Let us undesrtand the reasons for shared hosting popularity before analyzing the underlying threats on sites security.
Web security - Sessions and cookies
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Many web applications use a session to make a customizable environment process users activities. As the HTTP protocol has been defined as a stateless protocol, it is theoretically impossible for HTTP to "remember" actions or someone as each HTTP request...
Web security - HTTP Sessions and Cookies
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A web user activity is organized upon multiple requests into a logical entity that is enabled by HTTP sessions.
A HTTP session can not be secured without prior semantic code analysis on each elementary transaction. HTTP protocol is "stateless". When the...