Jesse Newland

15 Posts tagged with security

Developing OAuth clients in Ruby

How to: Debug SSL certificate problems from the shell prompt

openssl s_client -connect foo.com:443

SSL-enabled Name-based Apache Virtual Hosts with mod_gnutls

The way things could be, if OpenSSL, Apache, and all modern browsers (I'm looking at you, Safari) supported Server Name Indication (SNI).

bcrypt-ruby

An easy way to keep your users’ passwords secure.

md5.rednoize.com - reverse engineer md5 hashes

Huge database of md5 hashes. Useful for all sorts of nefarious purposes.

Ruby on Rails: Safely exposing your app to a ruby Sandbox

Executing user-submitted ruby code in a Sandbox. This has some crazy possibilities.

Revision 526: /rails/plugins/branches/stable/htpasswd

This plugin allows controllers to use HTTP Basic and Digest access authentication.

QuarkRuby: Ruby on Rails Security Guide

Good guide for a due diligence security review on any public rails app.

iTunes DRM Cracked, again

Oh joy :) Time to un-DRM all of my recent iTunes Store Purchases

Active Reload—Your requests are safe with us

Nice rundown of preventing CSRF attacks in Rails apps

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2

And they *still* don't provide an MD5 checksum of the latest download.

white list

This White Listing helper will html encode all tags and strip all attributes that aren’t specifically allowed. It also strips href/src tags with invalid protocols, like javascript: especially. It does its best to counter any tricks that hackers may use,

Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: Cookie Based Sessions are the New Default

New Rails SessionStore - cookies, with SHA512 encrypted. Interesting

Tales of Being TJ » Blog Archive » What did I learn from the MOAB? Not much

...if one of the goals of MOAB was to get average users realize there are a lot of security problems with OS X… well, I came away feeling more like “They couldn’t even find enough to fill a month.�

Boston Police Embarass Themselves: Shut down highways over LED Mooninite Ads

"It's almost too easy to be a terrorist these days," said Jennifer Mason, 26. "You stick a box on a corner and you can shut down a city."
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