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How to hide victim pop-up in clickjacking?

I am testing a web application for click-jacking vulnerability. The attack works fine for single clicks, however i am trying to delete a file and the hidden frame (victim) throws a pop-up ...
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User privileges for unsanatized code

We all know there are still vulnerable code out there even though they may or may not get exploited and found for hacking attempts. I've seen people do it countless times and have a possibly plausible ...
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Limited JavaScript app scenario: Attack vectors and mitigation

I'm going to be developing a single page JavaScript app which allows input via a textarea. This input is never sent to the server, never shown to another user, and will only be persisted in browser ...
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Set Cookie in XHR response : How different browsers handle this?

If I send a XHR request to example.com and response has Set-Cookie: dummyCookie=dummy in response. How different browsers handle this? Does any version of any browser set the cookie for ...
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Without using SSL, what's the most secure way to make an AJAX request to a PHP page?

It was suggested over at stackoverflow that I try my question here. This is it verbatim: So, it's impossible to do AJAX requests securely without using SSL. I get it. You can either view-source the ...
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Best way to secure javascript front end/REST back end architecture web site?

I would like to build the following project: public REST API back end which can be accessed by any authenticated client. front end with static files in HTML/CSS/Javascript with Backbone.js jQuery ...
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Is it safe to allow untrusted field names in JSON?

When forming a JSON data structure, are there any security risks with allowing the field names to be chosen by an attacker? You can assume they'll be quoted properly. I'd like to know if allowing ...
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Preventing information disclosure from browser back button/history?

I have sensitive data that will be hosted on a website, and I would like to prevent the data from being exposed in this scenario: The primary user logs off the application, but does not close the ...
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What risks should I be aware of before allowing advertisements being placed on my website?

The thought of having a 3rd party send javascript, and images to end users seems to be a scary thought, but that is exactly what we are doing when I place advertisements onto my site. Does serving ...
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RSA Key Pair generation with Javascript

I need to generate a RSA key pair with Javascript. This key pair will be used for encrypting a one time blob of data (20-100kb), then discarded. This data can be reduced to a couple of hundred kb or ...
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Security Concerns on clientside(Javascript)

We are going to design and implement a UI for a big website. Owner of the site is really cautious about security issues. I wonder if there is a check list for security issues at the client-side ,while ...
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Solution to allow JavaScript input but prevent XSS

We have a simple Blog system that allows users to input html and JavaScript to build a blog page. I'm aware that allowing javascript open up the door to xss attacks. We do however need to allow users ...
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Why do some people really hate security via client-side?

For instance, lets look at a common login system for a website HTTPS connection is made User submits credentials via POST Server-side code hashes the password and looks if it matches the user name ...
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How to protect from new Javascript Injection technique that doesn't use eval()?

There is a new Javascript injection technique that is generating chatter on the forums mentioned here Here is the code sample: String.prototype.code = function(){ return (new Function('with(this) { ...
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Access to other local files from a local HTML file

I tried this question on programmers site with no luck Do you see any reason to block a local html file from accessing another local files located in the same folder? I mean, if a user downloaded an ...
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Protection against synthetic queries

Note: One, I am not sure if synthetic queries is right word for the risk I am talking about. Second, though I am considering 3-tier model of web-applications general answers are welcome in ...
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Replicating javascript actions from different website (XSS?)

I've got html / javascript code on my site like this: <a ...
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Problems with avoiding JSON hijacking with MVC3's AntiForgeryToken, or similar token validation

I'm hesitant to implement the proposed anti-JSON hijacking solutions since The recommended solutions to mitigating JSON hijacking involve non-REST-full JSON POSTs to GET data The alternate ...
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Security attacks on PHP web applications

I know about following security attacks on php applications (html,php,js). XSS SQL Injection CSFR Session Hijacking /Fixation Code Injection Remote file injection Should i know about any other or ...
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Escaping JavaScript constants

how can untrusted values be included in a html-page as javascript string constants? Although the case i am asking uses JSF and Rails, I think this is a general problem independent of the server side ...
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Are there any tools to detect JavaScript-based WCF/AJAX calls?

I'd like to determine if a given JavaScript contains the logic to make a AJAX/WCF call, or determine if one is being executed at runtime. Does anything like this exist?