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Domain-Driven Security

posted on Jan 21, 2011 by seccom Comments:0

by Rohit Sethi and Yuk Fai Chan The Problem We have a pervasive problem in our field. We lump two disparate classes of security weakness together. Some articulate the difference as “business logic” vs. “technical” or “semantic” vs. “syntactic”. I’d like to build on a familiar term to developers: “domain”. Each kind of software weakness…

The True Danger of XSS and CSRF

posted on May 15, 2009 by Rohit Sethi Comments:0

In our one-day training classes and conference talks we make judicious use of videos to demonstrate concepts. One of the most popular videos illustrates the true danger of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) combined with Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). We constructed a fake bank site and demonstrated that a single XSS vulnerability and money transfer functionality in the bank site could…