PHP & Web Application Security Blog
Nov 2008
While Sean was visiting the NY office this past week, he noticed a Facebook message from one of his friends that included a suspicious link. When he clicked it, Firefox displayed a Reported Attack Site alert. Clearly, Sean's friend did not intentionall...
Oct 2008
With a gentle prod from Jon, I've been reading about the hot topic of font linking. I have as many questions as answers, but I'm going to try to share what I've learned so far, and I hope you'll join the conversation.
Jon provides a good history, and ...
Sep 2008
Another ZendCon has come and gone. I've been cutting back on the number of conferences I attend, but I've been to every ZendCon so far, and I hope to continue the trend for years to come. Along with php|tek, it's one of the best perennial PHP conferenc...
Aug 2008
There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've ever tried to debug problems with sessions, cookies, or redirects, I'm sure you can appreciate how hard it is without taking a close look at what's going on b...
I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizabeth Naramore is kindly hosting me, so I'll be able to fraternize after the meeting, which is always the b...
Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday's release of 4.4.9 is the final release of PHP 4. More information can be gleaned from the mailing list arch...