Unlocking your iPhone
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 6th Feb, 2008
I hasn’t been long since the iPhone entered the UK market, however we’ve had the advantage that it’s a follower market and we’ve been insulated from the initial cycle of the technology and been introduced to a more recent built. One interesting side to that even though the iPhone has entered the market relatively recently, [...]
The 12 most common application level hack attacks
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 26th Nov, 2007
I got an interesting paper in my email today entitled The 12 Most Common Application Level Hack Attacks written by Watchfire Corporation. Most development probably know about most of these, but it was nice to see them collected in one place. In a nut shell, these are:
Cookie Poisoning
Hidden Field Manipulation
Parameter Tampering
Buffer Overflow
Cross-Site Scripting
Backdoor and Debug Options
Forecful [...]
You make it, we’ll break it!
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 3rd Jul, 2007
The iPhone has only been around for a couple of days and a number of people out there are working hard at breaking into the device. It’s strange how a whole industry has spawned around people hacking their way around software and systems .. and making a legitimate living around it.
It seems like the main reason [...]
Using PHP? Watch out for your security!
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 11th Jan, 2007
Excellent post on Security Focus by Kelly Martin called PHP apps: Security’s Low-hanging Fruit which is a worthwhile read for anyone using applications written in PHP, just like WordPress for example. The article talks about the rise in popularity of PHP, the subsequent increase in PHP-based applications and the problems brought about by less-experienced coders [...]
