I'm out here in beautiful New York City with some good friends elbow-deep in Web Application Security topics, but of course I won't be neglecting you readers who so graciously passed in your questions from the Ottawa and Montreal workshops. To kick it off, I'll address the question about...
Our Ajax Security book from Addison Wesley has been published! By now I'm sure everyone is tried of me talking about the book and its merits, so let's see what some of experts in the web security space are saying about it: Andrew van der Stock The Executive Director of OWASP reviewed a draft...
I got an email from Christ1an the other day asking me what Ajax Security was all about. I was just going to send him the table of contents to the book, but I thought it might be educational to see how the components of Ajax security relate, and where they come from. In Jeremiah's fascinating Web...
Its time again for AjaxWorld , the largest Ajax conference in the US. Bryan and I are thrilled. AjaxWorld offered us back -to- back sessions so we can do a 90+ minute workshop on how to break into Ajax applications. We will not only hit the major themes like increased attack surface, code transparency...
When JSON hijacking was first discussed and demonstrated in 2006 and 2007 by Whitehat, Fortify and others, all of the proof of concepts used Mozilla specific JavaScript extensions like setter or __defineSetter__ . This led many people to believe that these vulnerabilities only existed in Mozilla-derived...
I’m really excited to be speaking at Shmoocon again and especially excited about my presentation this Saturday at 1pm. Javascript Malware for a Gray Goo Tomorrow focuses on the increased scope of damage caused by Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the last year. The Web 2.0 revolution...
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