Tag Archive | "csrf"


07 May 2010 | 7,619 views

Jarlsberg – Learn Web Application Exploits and Defenses

This codelab is built around Jarlsberg /yärlz’·bərg/, a small, cheesy web application that allows its users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. “Unfortunately,” Jarlsberg has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote code execution. The goal of this codelab is [...]

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22 April 2010 | 15,134 views

PayPal Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities

PayPal in the news again for a series of fairly high-profile vulnerabilities discovered by the same guy that found the XSS bugs in Google Calendar and Twitter (Nir Goldshlager). I’m glad people are looking at PayPal as I’m sure the volume of monetary transactions that pass through their site on a daily basis is huge. [...]

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11 September 2008 | 4,131 views

CSRF Vulnerability in Twitter Allows Forced Following

I did mention this earlier in the week when I was talking about Twitter being used as a malware distribution platform, there also seems to be an auto follow vulnerability that spammers would love. Do you remember Myspace and samy with 900,000 friends? Now we have johng77536 on Twitter! Last week, TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid wrote [...]

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