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Articles in Web Security
Finding Data in Client Certificates
Can I pass additional user data, such as identity information, in a message secured with a client certificate? This question looks like an earlier one about Windows credentials but has some subtle differe...
From : Nicholas Allens Indigo Blog
2008 Jan 29
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 158; Sentence Count: 8; Grade Level: 12.0
Custom Password Validation for HTTP
Phil Henning has written about creating a custom username/password validator for HTTP, which is another new feature in Orcas. Like getting access to client IP addresses, creating a custom password validator i...
From : Nicholas Allens Indigo Blog
2008 Jan 14
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 82; Sentence Count: 4; Grade Level: 12.0
Accessing the Query String
How do I get access to the query string of an HTTP request when processing a message? The query string isn't one of the properties available on the new WebOperationContext but you can still get access to ...
From : Nicholas Allens Indigo Blog
2008 Jan 04
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 66; Sentence Count: 6; Grade Level: 12.0
Hack Google (Maps) URLs for Quick Searching [URL Hacking]
Frequently using Google Maps for directions? Reader Pham writes in with a simple but interesting way to save time when looking up directions.Basically, the multi-step process of going to Google [Maps], typing ...
From : Lifehacker
2007 Dec 22
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 206; Sentence Count: 21; Grade Level: 5.5
iPhone serial access tutorial
Filed under: cellphones hacks[TheRain] sent in his tutorial on using the iPhone's serial port. Apparently there's a hardware trick required to enable two way communication. Whatever device is attached to the i...
From : Hack a Day
2007 Dec 11
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 69; Sentence Count: 4; Grade Level: 10.6
Silent Security Failures
I'm using reliable messaging and getting an exception that the reliable session has faulted. It's the first exception that I see so I don't know why the session faulted. How do I know what went wrong? Her...
From : Nicholas Allens Indigo Blog
2007 Dec 06
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 198; Sentence Count: 13; Grade Level: 10.3
Security Software Moves to Consoles - Web Filtering for PS3
Ah it seems some companies are having the same idea as me, consoles might well be the next infection vector for zombie style botnets, they have good processing power, the current generation has ample hard-driv...
From : Darknet - The Darkside
2007 Nov 29
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 65; Sentence Count: 6; Grade Level: 7.0
[Security] Microsoft unveils Code Protection suite of tools
about a year ago Microsoft bought a small Israeli Company called Secured Dimensions. They had an interesting solution to the problem of protecting your .NET code. Basically they would help you choose which par...
From : ISerializable - Roy Osheroves Blog
2007 Nov 16
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 131; Sentence Count: 9; Grade Level: 7.2
VMware Web Management and IIS7 on Windows Server 2008
As I pointed out in a previous post, I wasn't able to find any love on teh intarwebs about how to get the VMware Web Management Interface to work on Windows Longhorn Server/IIS7. Then I remembered: One of the...
From : AngryPets Blog
2007 Nov 06
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 453; Sentence Count: 25; Grade Level: 8.4
Ideal Log Management Tool?
The idea came from Jeremiah Grossman (here) when he described “The Best Web Application Vulnerability Scanner in the World” thus: “Within a few moments of pressing the scan button it’l...
From : OReilly Sysadmin
2007 Nov 05
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 574; Sentence Count: 17; Grade Level: 12.0
SOA in the Unification Model
This is third in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview) What can you get from this series? My prior post raised a bit of ire with one of...
From : Inside Architecture
2007 Oct 27
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1768; Sentence Count: 83; Grade Level: 11.4
Best Practice: Always open WCF client proxy explicitly when it is shared
In order to provide symmetric programming model for the client-side as for the server-side, WCF leverages .NET Remoting transparent proxy technique so that the service contract interface can be used seamlessly...
From : Wenlong Dongs Blog
2007 Oct 26
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 473; Sentence Count: 42; Grade Level: 5.2
XSSDETECT: Analyzing Large Applications
XSSDetect is a static binary analysis tool. In the first step of analysis it reads target binaries to create a directed graph where nodes represent statements while the edges represent flow of data. This graph...
From : ACE Team - Security, Performance & Privacy
2007 Oct 24
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 470; Sentence Count: 27; Grade Level: 10.4
Create Custom RoleProvider for ASP.NET Role Permissions and Security
Just as with a Custom MembershipProvider, one can create a Custom RoleProvider in ASP.NET to handle role-based permissions and security. In this 5 minute tutorial I am going to create a custom roleprovider, ca...
From : David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server
2007 Oct 17
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 51; Sentence Count: 6; Grade Level: 8.1
Re-enable request validation in ASP.NET
Request validation is enabled by default in ASP.NET and it basically stops people from submitting a form with HTML in any of the input fields. It’s a little more sophisticated than that, but basically ...
From : .NET slave
2007 Oct 14
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 535; Sentence Count: 63; Grade Level: 1.9
