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Hacking everything, by Chris Evans / scarybeasts

Thursday, February 24, 2011

I got accidental code execution via glibc?!

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The story of Chromium security bug 48733 , with guest Cris Neckar, part I It has been a long time now, but the story of Chromium security bu...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Some less obvious benefits of HSTS

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HSTS , standing for HTTP Strict Transport Security, is a relatively new standard that aims to bolster the strength of HTTPS connections. Hop...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

A harmless SVG + XSLT curiousity

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How do you execute code in a turing complete language via the <img> tag? Why, by combining an XSL transform into an SVG image of cour...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Minor leak, major headache

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I find this bug interesting, because at first it looks like a relatively minor cross-origin leak. But with a bit of investigation, it has ma...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

IE8 CSS-based forced tweeting

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A few weeks back, I published a demo that uses a serious Internet Explorer cross-origin violation to permit a malicious web page to force th...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Internet Explorer considered harmful

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Now that this paper is officially public, the full story of CSS-based cross-origin theft can come out. (As an aside I'd like to note th...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Firefox fixes CSS-based cross-origin theft issue

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Firefox just released version 3.6.7 of their excellent browser, and it fixes this: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-46...
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