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Website file being altered

I have recently had random spam links inserted into 3 ASP.NET websites. The links are inserted into the physical file so it is not SQL injection attack. The websites have very little in common other ...
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What threats does a stateless web application have? (as opposed to a “state-full” sessions)

I'm comparing the pros and cons between having an authenticated "stateless" ASP.NET MVC session versus a ASP.NET Forms application with viewstate. Assuming that there is a webfarm of more than 1 web ...
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Does ASP.NET Viewstate implicitly prevent CSRF attacks? What does this mean for MVC?

If an encrypted ASP.NET Viewstate is submitted with every form, and control POST, does that mean that ASP.NET is less vulnerable to CSRF than other solutions with this? What is the extent and ...
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When the use of a AntiForgeryToken is not required /needed?

I'm running a rather large site with thousands of visits every day, and a rather large userbase. Since I started migrating to MVC 3, I've been putting the AntiForgeryToken in a number of forms, that ...