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Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Be on Guard for Forceful Browsers
When you go to a store to look around, the clerk may ask if they can help you. No, you’re just browsing, you say. You’re not necessarily in search of anything in particular. We do the same thing online. Web browsing is a way to satisfy our curiosity, to delve into areas that interest us, […]
An Introduction to Form Field Manipulation
You use web forms all the time. All across the internet, you are called upon to give certain information about yourself in order to access a site, use an application, or purchase a product. And the truth is most of us have become more open to these kinds of interactions as we have become immersed […]
Cookie Manipulation and Poisoning
Everybody loves cookies. They’re hard to resist — sweet and delicious. So why is something as flavorless as a computer cookie blessed with the same name? You can blame Lou Monulli. He created the technology for Netscape Communications and received a patent for it in 1998. In the beginning, nobody knew that cookies were being […]
The Ghosts of Buffer Overflow
An enormous amount of due diligence. That’s what it will take to overcome one of the most common computer security vulnerabilities that has been vexing cyberspace for years, according to John Clark of the University of York. “To make buffer overflows a thing of the past will require an enormous amount of due diligence – […]
CSRF and the Confused Deputy
Imagine that a smooth operator convinces Barney Fife — the famous sheriff’s deputy on TV — to unlock a Mayberry jail cell. Barney has the keys. He has the authority. He wants to do the right thing, but he’s easily confused and manipulated. Your web browser has authority too. It can do a lot of […]
Attack of the Botnet Zombies
There have been plenty of zombie movies over the past few years. The plots are similar — the undead stalk the living — and the productions are generally not Oscar material. But somehow the threat hits a nerve with the general public. To illustrate a threat of a different kind, let’s come up with a […]
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Exploits
JavaScript is a dandy programming language. And it’s very popular. A report from W3Techs shows that 94.7% of all websites surveyed used JavaScript. But it’s also vulnerable to a top web application hack called cross-site scripting (XSS). Unlike SQL injection, which targets the server side, XSS goes directly for unsuspecting web users. XSS injects malicious […]
Defending Against SQL Injection
If you’re worried about computer hackers, you should be worried about SQL injection (SQLi). It keeps showing up on the top ten list of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). In 2013, the year of their latest approved list, OWASP put injection at the top of the list. “Injection flaws such as SQL, OS, […]
Uptime Institute Ensures IT Infrastructure Reliability
When it comes to IT infrastructure, there’s not much room for error. In fact, businesses have come to expect their data technology environment to be completely reliable. As we wrote in “The Essence of Uptime“, “The standard for network uptime is 99.999% availability.” Data center reliability is essential to the success of the enterprise now […]
Network Availability – Is it Important to you?
Alright, we admit that our company has a certain obsession with network availability we collectively call “uptime”. It’s even in our name. We’re totally committed to keeping services up and running for our clients. And while uptime is our best friend, we seem to spend a lot of time thinking about the enemy: downtime. We’ve […]