There was not a lot of news, but there are plenty of good articles to read. First, we get a few security articles about the same-site cookie attribute. Both chloe and Sjoerd Langkemper talk about how same-site can prevent CSRF. On Flowing Data, we get a visualization that shows how much better Stephen Curry was than… Read More Geek Reading April 19, 2016 #1087
Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for… Read More Geek Reading September 15, 2015
Today we start with a story from WIRED about the NSA firmware hacking. I have tried to avoid the hysteria and WIRED has a nicely detailed post. DaedTech, whose posts are normally development related, has a great post on the “retreat of the introvert”. I am sure that most of us will relate to this.… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2015
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