NewsFactor has a nice piece on the recent AT&T iPad "breach" that tells the story of how a code on AT&T's site was cracked exposing email addresses of iPad users. So, some criminals gleaned some email addresses from a telecom provider...In the grand scheme of things: big deal.I agree with Sophos' Paul Ducklin - I think this is being overblown...just like the sensationalism brought forth by my recent bit on ...
Continue Reading...I was just informed by my editor at SearchSoftwareQuality.com that they're going to take my Ask the Expert response regarding CSRF (referred to in this post) offline until they've had a chance to review it. In the interest of not letting this fizzle out without people knowing what happened as well as maintaining my stance on the topic and further clarifying what I meant, here's the original question along with ...
Continue Reading...Here's a great piece where something I wrote put a grown man with a hacker handle's boxers in a bunch. With all due respect to what Robert has contributed to our field, he is missing the point of my 8 sentence statement about cross-site request forgery (CSRF) not being a top priority (formerly published on SearchSoftwareQuality.com). It reminds of me when I wrote about Changes coming to the OWASP Top ...
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