Until recently, it was trivial for developers to disable the “save you password” feature implemented by all major browsers. However, in the last years, browser vendors have begun to actively discourage and prevent applications from disabling this feature. Their case is that the safest practice for users is to use a password manager, instead of […]
Case study – Open Redirect
Most of us are familiar with the ‘Open Redirect’ vulnerability; an OWASP top 10 vulnerability that takes advantage of a situation in which the application receives a parameter from the client and uses it to build the URL location to which the user is redirected, without performing sufficient validation on the received input. Typically, attackers […]
Resident XSS – Reflected Becomes Stored Thanks to HTML5
HTML5 is the newest version of the HTML. It offers new features that enhance support for creating web applications that can interact with the user and his/her local data and servers. HTML5 successfully does this more easily and effectively than has previously been possible. In this article we will focus on the new client storage offered […]
X-Frame-Option is dead, long live Content Security Policy!
Clickjacking, (A.K.A UI Redress attack) is an attack in which an attacker utilizes multiple transparent or opaque layers in order to trick a client into clicking on a button or link on a different page; they are then mislead to think they were clicking the top level page link. Accordingly, the attacker is “hijacking” clicks meant for […]