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Category Archives: Technology

23rd Annual FIRST Conference – Podcast

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 13, 2011

It’s not often I get to visit a conference close to home, but as luck would have it, this years annual FIRST conference is taking place in my own back yard. Prior to the conference start, I teamed up with Martin McKeay from the NetSec Podcast to record a few interesting interviews for FIRST. As [...]

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Setting up your own SAP Netweaver test lab

4 Comments Posted by on January 14, 2011

One of the main issues I came across when starting research in SAP security (and SAP in general) was the seeming lack of demo software available and the difficulty getting what demo versions there were up and running. This has also been the number 1 question I’ve received over the last few months… “How do I get [...]

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Cookies… the next generation

1 Comment Posted by on October 29, 2010

I like cookies…. which probably explains why none of my T-Shirts fit properly anymore. Still, HTTP cookies are good too, even if they don’t taste as good. Michal Zalewski wrote a great piece discussing the ins/outs and general issues of cookies over on his blog (HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols). In his blog he [...]

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HTTP Strict Transport Security

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 27, 2010

If you’re a sad geek like me you’ve probably already heard of HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security). HSTS is designed to solve an issue where you access a web server using HTTP and are automatically redirected to the HTTPS equivalent (usually through a 301 or 302 response and a new location header). To most this seems [...]

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