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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: | |
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alesandroortiz.com
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| | | | | Alesandro Ortiz: Software Engineer. Security Researcher. | |
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textslashplain.com
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| | | | | A few years back, I wrote a short explainer about User Gestures, a web platform concept whereby certain sensitive operations (e.g. opening a popup window) will first attempt to confirm whether the user intentionally requested the action. As noted in that post, gestures are a weak primitive -- while checking whether the user clicked or... | |
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internalpointers.com
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| | | From routing to IP addressing, a look at the protocol that gives life to the Internet. | ||