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Using Cookies For Selective DoS and State Detection

August 22nd, 2010 No comments

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This is a continuation of he first post where we described how you can use cookies to DoS certain portions of the website. After our speech one of the Mozilla guys came up to us and described another attack that arises from this. Let’s say when a user logs in it sets a cookie that is 200 bytes long, and when they log out it re-sets the same cookie to 50 bytes. Well if the attacker can set a cookie with a particular path to a single image on the site, for instance, they can use JavaScript to check with an onerror event handler to see if the image has loaded.

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Using Cookies For Selective DoS

August 22nd, 2010 No comments

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Quick Proxy Detection

August 21st, 2010 No comments

Quick Proxy Detection: “

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Just a quicky post on how in Firefox you can detect proxies using image tags. Firefox (and possibly other browsers but I first saw it in Firefox) use [ ] to denote IPv6 (I believe that’s it’s original intention anyway) but it also works in IPv4.

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The Top 10 Web Application security vulnerabilities

September 30th, 2009 No comments

The Top 10 Web Application security vulnerabilities
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