Today, Compass Security published a public advisory regarding nevisProxy, a product from AdNovum, used by several Swiss financial institutions. nevisProxy is a secure reverse proxy with an integrated web application firewall (WAF). It acts as a central upstream entry point for web traffic to integrated online applications. nevisProxy controls user access and protects sensitive data, […]
Developers increasingly integrate BeanShell support into web applications to provide end users and administrators with a simple extension framework. But be warned! BeanShell support without appropriate access control will put the hosting web server at severe risk. An attacker could easily execute operating system calls and without appropriate system hardening such an attack will immediately result in full system compromise. The […]
As it is known since at least 2006, a website is able to identify the domains a user previously visited, with some simple CSS hacks. This had great privacy implications, and browsers took steps to eliminate this problem. But in December 2011, lcamtuf presented a new proof of concept based on cache timings, which basically does the […]
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