RE: DNS Lookups ? huh ?

2000-06-08 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Rob Tanner wrote: I gotta read messages all the way down before I respond.. Duh. You said they were off and I told you to turn them off. That's probably at least three demerits for me. Anyway, unless you have an extremely busy server, those lookups are generally

Re: talking about cookies (was: session something...)

2000-05-11 Thread Marc Slemko
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: For all those who favor chocolate cookies (mostly related to the latest discussion about the sessions): IE hole exposes Web surfers' private data: Microsoft is working on a patch that will prevent its Internet Explorer browser from inadvertently

Re: Security in displaying arbitrary HTML

2000-04-28 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: Unfortunately there's also a browser bug to contend with. They treat \x8b (I think that's the right code) as and there's a similar code for . Since most web developers are just doing s//lt;/g; they are open to attacks based on character sets like

Re: Security in displaying arbitrary HTML

2000-04-27 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote: I'm interested in providing 'HTML email' support for my users (like HotMail, Outlook Express, Eudora 4.0, etc provide), but I'm very nervous about security. Essentially, providing HTML email involves letting any arbitrary HTML get displayed by

Re: Security in displaying arbitrary HTML

2000-04-27 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Nick Tonkin wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: Cookies are not secure and will never be secure. They may be "good enough", and you may not have much choice, but they are still simply not secure when you put everything together. Can y

Re: Security in displaying arbitrary HTML

2000-04-27 Thread Marc Slemko
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: "SC" == Steven Champeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC developers and designers) for Webmonkey: SC http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/18/index3a.html SC If you want to see what sort of stuff the XSS problem opens you up for, SC just try

Re: Implementing security in CGI

2000-04-24 Thread Marc Slemko
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, dreamwvr wrote: hi, most likely you will want to shut down cookies and use another method as per advisories that currently there is a problem with javascript and cookies when both enabled. b.t.w. exploder has simular

RE: Proxy hijackers?

2000-04-19 Thread Marc Slemko
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Eric Cholet wrote: (Off topic again, but lots of people here are using reverse proxy). For a while I had 'ProxyRequests On' in my httpd.conf mistakenly thinking that it was necessary to make ProxyPass and mod_rewrite proxying work. Then I noticed entries in my

Re: cross site scripting security issue headsup

2000-02-02 Thread Marc Slemko
, 2 Feb 2000, Sander van Zoest wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: http://www.apache.org/info/css-security/ http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html I think I have found a little typo/oversight in the mod_perl example on http://www.apache.org/info/css-security