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30 Sep 08

Coding Horror: Cross-Site Request Forgeries and You

Explanation of and advice for handling common attacks through websites. Cross-Site Request Forgeries with a little bit of Cross-Site Scripting.

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19 Sep 08

Ajaxian » Simon Willison, @Media Ajax

Nice article on how to make Ajax applications more secure and resistant to things like cross-site scripting (xss) and cross-site request forgery (csrf).

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18 Sep 08

mashed life

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* Log in to any site from any browser on any PC
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* All data is strongly encrypted, privacy protected

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17 Aug 08

A MP3 Steganographic File System Approach » The Zana Zen

An interesting idea for using "ordinary" files to hide sensitive information, as a file-system.

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TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux

  • "# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. # Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive. # Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent." - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
15 Jul 08

Message Vault

An implementation of TiddlyWiki that encrypts each of the tiddlers you create so that you can pass it on to others in a secure fashion. Seems like it might be a useful alternative for a password archive.

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16 Jun 08

Password Strength Checker

A tool that lets you test how strong your passwords are. It ranks based on a lot of different factors and gives instant feedback via color to let you know how strong the password actually is.

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28 May 08

Password Safe

A free, opensource, software app that keeps track of your accounts and passwords for an unlimited number of services. The problem is that if you use multiple computers all your passwords don't come with you...

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28 Apr 08

5 signs your ASP.NET application may be vulnerable to HTML injection » DamienG

Article with examples of how to use Html encoding to prevent succeptability to XSS in ASP.Net web pages.

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... In Which We Discuss HTML-Encoding : Rob Conery

Discussion and some responses about HTML encoding in MVC as a means to prevent XSS. Gives some good links to XSS examples and resources.

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Steve Sanderson’s blog » Blog Archive » ASP.NET MVC: Prevent XSS with automatic HTML encoding

Tutorial with demo code you can use to change the default behavior of <%= ... %> so that the output is Html encoded. Useful for prevention of XSS but not tested in many situations yet for robustness.

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27 Apr 08

Blocking Direct Access To Views in ASP.NET MVC

Handy bit of code in web.config to prevent people from navigating directly to a view.

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25 Apr 08

Using jQuery to Consume ASP.NET JSON Web Services | Encosia

There's a snippet here about what Ajax settings to use for JQuery communicating with ASP.Net.

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01 Feb 07

How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In - News by InformationWeek

  • Interesting article but is it mostly FUD? Not sure since I like Cory Doctrow... - bluecockatoo on 2007-02-01
25 Sep 06

Flickcha - a little mashlet on TWOCrowds

  • Interesting use of flickr to create a catchpa, but has several "holes" as pointed out here... still something to think about more as a possibility... - bluecockatoo on 2006-09-25
23 Aug 06

Poxy

  • A tool to allow you to browse through a proxy so that you can avoid abitrary security restrictions. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

hidetext.net - become ungoogable - leave no traces - anonymous web browsing, free privacy service.

  • Converts text to an image that you can post in public places instead... basically to keep spiders and screen scrapers from getting the plain text info... obfuscation, not fullproof security, but handy in the right situations. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Tempinbox.com - ENGLISH - FREE, RECEIVE ONLY, TEMPORARY, THROWAWAY, E-MAIL ACCOUNTS

  • A service that lets you create a temporary email address that you can receive (not send) emails from for several days to keep you from having to use your real one to sign up for things and start getting spam. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Outlook "Object Model Guard" Security Issues for Developers

  • Documentation on how to deal with the security features in Outlook while writing VBA macros for use in Rules. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
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