Paros 3.2.11 has been released. This version is a maintenance release with a useful feature requested by various users. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version. One of my favourite proxy options, along side the Burp Proxy (evolved into Burp Suite). Paros labels itself as MITM Proxy + Spider + Scanner plus anything […]
Security
Paros Proxy 3.2.10 Released – MITM HTTP and HTTPS Proxy
One of my favourite proxy options, along side the Burp Proxy (evolved into Burp Suite). I’ll definately talk more about the Burp Suite later as it’s excellent for testing anything web-based. Paros labels itself as MITM Proxy + Spider + Scanner plus anything else you want it to be, it is a pretty neat piece […]
AJAX: Is your application secure enough?
Introduction We see it all around us, recently. Web applications get niftier by the day by utilising the various new techniques recently introduced in a few web-browsers, like I.E. and Firefox. One of those new techniques involves using Javascript. More specifically, the XmlHttpRequest-class, or object. Webmail applications use it to quickly update the list of […]
Is Open Source Really More Secure?
Is Open Source more secure? That’s a question that can be answered with both yes and no. Not only that, but the reasons for the “yes” and the “no” are fairly much the same. Because you can see the source the task of hacking or exploiting it is made easier, but at the same time […]
Post-Mortem Data Destruction
[ad] 1. Introduction This article describes and partly implements a method to delete or re-locate, potentially sensitive and / or incriminating information from your UNIX flavoured machine, after the sad event of your death. An older version of this article has been published before, yet it has since disappeared from the Internet and the Google […]