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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:
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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...
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| | In this article, we break down some most asked interview questions on Security part in ASP.NET MVC.
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| Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....