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Web Security in few lines

   Insufficient Transport Layer Protection  Authenticating over non-­‐SSL. Obviously bad Sending session IDs over non-­‐SSL Session hijacking Firesheep Not sending everything over SSL JavaScript injection Insecure Cryptographic Storage Obviously bad  Storing passwords in plaintext.  Still bad  Using unsalted hashes. Using raw hash function (MD5,SHA1,etc). Better but not great  Using a keyed hash function (HMAC-SHA1). Best Using a slow function (PBKDF2,bcrypt,scrypt).  Cross-Site Request Forger y  Confused deputy problem.  Classic example  Filelocker doesn’t have any CSRF protection. Joe is a Filelocker admin. I get Joe to visit a specially crafted form. Joe’s browser submits form along  with  his cookies. I not have admin  <form method="POST" action="[path to filelocker]/admin_interface/grant_user_permission?format=json"> <input type="hidden" name="us...