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HttpOnly broke my Selenium tests

On my current project (running .NET 2.0), I have been using Selenium to test various security related aspects of the application. (Could Selenium be used for security testing?, Selenium with support...

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HttpOnly broke my Selenium tests

On my current project (running .NET 2.0), I have been using Selenium to test various security related aspects of the application. (Could Selenium be used for security testing?, Selenium with support...

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Design considerations for Web Services

I came across this very good article discussing web services security: Security Concepts, Challenges, and Design Considerations for Web Services Integration. It discusses concepts and design in a very...

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Security analogies

I just read Scott Granneman’s article on Security Analogies on SecurityFocus.com. He argues that the use of analogies is essential when explaining security to users. He makes a very good point. I think...

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Norwegian sites leaking information

Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet revealed yesterday that several commercial and non-commercial sites can be exploited to perform identity theft. In Norway, all persons get assigned a unique number...

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OOPSLA’07 – Security

My second day at OOPSLA consisted of two security related workshops. The first one as entitled “Security Patterns and Secure Software Architecture” and was presented by Munawar Hafiz. Security patterns...

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OOPSLA’07: Security Testing with Selenium

I ran my demo at OOPSLA today entitled ‘Security Testing with Selenium’. You may find the presentation slides here.

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Windows CardSpace anyone?

I was at a presentation about Windows CardSpace a couple of days ago. Beautiful technology it might be, but I cannot help questioning the adoption of CardSpace in the real world. I cannot say I have...

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Is the Internet security battle lost?

According to this New York Times article, researchers at Stanford University vote in favor of starting all over, redesigning the Internet. I wonder if that is the way to go? At the same time, they...

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HTTPS is here

During the last few months, I have written several blog posts in my company’s blog about how to secure a site with HTTPS. I started off talking about how to encrypt an Azure web site with Let’s...

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