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anglebracket

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About anglebracket

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    Comment #17199568

    Yes, this isn't even the first cross-domain leakage attack on iframes using CSS. [0] There were similar issues with how hit testing was implemented for `document.elementFromPoint()…

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    Comment #17199472

    That's similar to what Kaminsky proposed with Iron Frame[0], but obviously it'd have to be opt-in. Applying Iron Frame-like rendering to all iframes would break a lot of content. […

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    Comment #16566261

    Not a great sign when they have only a handful of pages and still manage to have super basic XSS issues.

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    Comment #16540825

    I don't believe so. emacs-slack uses their official OAuth2 + Websocket integration https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack#how-to-get-token-the-...

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    Comment #16398880

    Generally if you have a CSP without `unsafe-inline` you'd have have a policy that would restrict all subresources (`default-src 'none'`,) then punch holes in the policy by resource…

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    Comment #16398803

    They shouldn't. These examples all rely on being able to cause an image load on a host the attacker controls if the CSS rule is applied. reddit blocks stylesheets that reference of…

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    Comment #14974850

    > The screenshot of their app on the iOS App Store shows a bunch of credible logos of their mentions, but then quotes "VyperVPN is the best service on the market" as coming from a …

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    Comment #12853561

    Yep, you can see that Ubuntu has been backporting security fixes: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1

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    Comment #12293924

    Interesting! I haven't spent much time looking at OS X internals, but I'll remember this for next time. Have any resources for other OS X quirks like this?

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    Comment #12151388

    >i've never seen the 'my' keyword before, what exactly is this language? It's Perl: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/my.html

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    Comment #11794689

    As a workaround you can go to "View > Page Style > No style". It honestly reads just fine without CSS.

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    Comment #11677355

    To JetBrains' credit they were very responsive throughout the disclosure process. I received a reply to my initial report in under two hours. Generally response times are measured …

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    Comment #11676208

    No, all that's necessary to trigger it is browsing to a page containing attacker-controlled JavaScript or Flash. The browser on your own computer would be connecting to the server …

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    Comment #11158414

    As far as I'm aware, Unity does not have JavaScript. It has the superficially similar "UnityScript" [0]. [0]: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/UnityScript_versus_JavaScr...

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    Comment #11077308

    See https://github.com/JdeH/Transcrypt/blob/master/Transcrypt/de... There are spaces before subscript operators, before `.method()` calls, and between `def name` and `(param1, para…

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    Comment #10955995

    That's fair. My point was that in reality, a ton of people end up doing it wrong in some way or another. You should cover your bases and keep your systems up to date with security …

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    Comment #10952625

    > Often there is no need to install updates at all on machines [...] like HVAC and SCADA systems Which, incidentally, have been the target of a lot of recent high-profile attacks.[…

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    Comment #10040354

    https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.ora...

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    Comment #8728212

    Any number of things can out you as a fake. Whether or not the request's Accept-Encoding has sdch, can help you figure out if something's Chrome. You can also abuse parsing quirks …

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    Comment #7314333

    >The attack made the code throw and exception and some of my escaping characters caused havoc with their error logger Heh, something similar happened to me during a recent audit. I…

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    Comment #7225738

    True, but just because you trust someone to access the dashboard doesn't mean you trust them to execute code on your server. There are other things to consider as well, like MITM a…