At the start of last week, we received great news regarding new improvements to a very popular security app, “Google Authenticator”. A feature it was lacking for a long time was finally implemented, “cloud backups”. However, after a few days, the security community realized the new feature wasn’t as good as everybody was assuming. It […]
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In a previous blog post published earlier this year I explored some security considerations of the well known “clipboard” functionality that most operating systems provide. Long story short, in my opinion there is a lot more that could be done to protect the users (and their sensitive data) from many attacks that use of clipboard […]
Content-Security-Policy (CSP) is an important mechanism in today’s web security arsenal. Is a way of defending against Cross-Site Scripting and other attacks. It isn’t hard to get started with or to put in place in order to secure your website or web application (I did that exercise in a previous post). However when the systems […]
If there is any feature that “universally” describes the usage of computers, it is the copy/paste pattern. We are used to it, practically all the common graphical user interfaces have support for it, and it magically works. We copy some information from one application and paste into another, and another… How does these applications have […]
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Security.txt
Some days ago while scrolling my mastodon‘s feed (for those who don’t know it is like Tweeter but instead of being a single website, the whole network is composed by many different entities that interact with each other), I found the following message: To server admins: It is a good practice to provide contact details, […]