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Entries Tagged ‘scripting’

A XSS Vulnerability in Almost Every PHP Form I’ve Ever Written

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months writing an enterprise application in PHP.  Despite what some people may say, I believe that PHP is as secure or insecure as the developer who is writing the code.  Anyway, I’m at the point in my development lifecycle where I decided that it was […]

OWASP Top 10 – 2010

This presentation was by Dave WIchers, COO of Aspect Security and an OWASP Board Member.  My notes are below: What’s Changed? It’s about Risks, not just vulnerabilities New title is: “The Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks” OWASP Top 10 Risk Rating Methodology Based on the OWASP Risk Rating Methodology, used to prioritize […]

Buildng and Stopping Next Generation XSS Worms – OWASP AppSec NYC 2008

I was originally planning on going upstairs for the SaaS Security presentation, but I had to come downstairs again to get my lunch and this topic seemed interesting, especially given the prevalence of cross site scripting in websites (see OWASP Top 10).  The presentation was by Arshan Dabirsiaghi, the director of research at Aspect Security.  […]