Abusing The HTML5 Data-URI
After seeing in the previous post how Data-URIs can be used as a mechanism to easily carry malicious code, I’ll elaborate more about the issues it presents.…
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SVG For Fun and Phishing
What an awesome format is SVG, so powerful and so well supported by browsers. And yet it is barely being used, it’s not getting the love it deserves. Well,…
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The Pains and Remedies of Android HTML5
Prologue: I’ve written most of this post some months ago and somehow didn’t publish it. Looking at it now, it’s a good reminder of some of the pains I already…
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Protecting Your Smart Phone, the Basics
iPhone 1. Don’t jailbreak, a not jailbroken iPhone is a pretty secure device. 2. Use PIN code Settings -> General -> Passcode (and not something like 1234) 3.…
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The Promise of Mobile HTML5
Less than a year ago it seemed like HTML5 was going strong. With Facebook and Linkedin adopting the technology to reach most of the screens on the mobile and…
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HTML5 Mobile Apps - Injection Heaven, Security Hell
Three weeks ago Path.com was fined for stupidly stealing their user’s contact list and saving it onto their servers. Path’s doing was obviously wrong but I’m…
Say What, Flash is More Secure Than HTML5?!
So my favorite script kiddy and copycat, Feross (copied, note the shameless “I discovered” in his Quora post, LoL) Found a social engineering flaw in the HTML5…
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I Didn't Wait for the iPhone 5
I was an happy Android user ever since the Nexus One came out (the One was the first decent Android, btw). Since than I used a few Android phones and never…
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To Fix JavaScript toFixed
The problem with the built in toFixed function in JavaScript, is that it always round the numbers. It’s like calling Math.round() Call 9.513.toFixed() => 10…
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Changed My Blog Tagline
Ever since I opened my blog at March 2006 the tagline I’ve chosen was “Flash And Everything Else”. Even though Adobe Flash wasn’t always the main thing I was…
Lose when you’re better
Microsoft was always used to win with inferior products. Windows was inferior to the Mac OS for many years and yet it dominated the market. Internet Explorer,…
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Adobe Flash – Brave Fold
In poker, a brave fold would be a case where you have a strong hand and you are already committed to the pot (you’ve already put in some substantial amount of…