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| | mathieu.fenniak.net
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| | Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is a type of security exploit where a user's web browser is tricked by a third-party site into performing actions on websites that the user is logged into. It is often a difficult attack to pull off, as it requires a number of factors to line up at once. Protecting against it requires good discipline and good design practices, especially when it comes to protecting Web APIs. Here's a brief example of a fictitious CSRF attack against a bank:
| | www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl
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| | Cookies are typically sent to third parties in cross origin requests. This can be abused to do CSRF attacks. Recently a new cookie attribute was proposed to disable third-party usage for some cookies, to prevent CSRF attacks. This post will describe the same-site cookie attribute and how it helps against CSRF.
| | neilmadden.blog
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| | In XSS doesn't have to be Game Over, and earlier when discussing Can you ever (safely) include credentials in aURL?, I raised the possibility of standardising a new URL scheme that safely allows encoding a bearer token into a URL. This makes it more convenient to use lots of very fine-grained tokens rather than one...
| | www.denx.de
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