A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on…
Tag: CSRF
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I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside Professor Alan Woodward, to analyse a device that had quite a lot of people all excited. With slick marketing, catchy tag lines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked email…
After toiling with Cross-Site Request Forgery on the web for, well forever really, we finally have a proper solution. No technical burden on the site owner, no difficult implementation, it's trivially simple to deploy, it's Same-Site Cookies. As old as the Web itself Cross-Site Request Forgery, also known as CSRF…
I recently found myself in a conversation about the difficulties of building and implementing effective CSRF protection. Not only was I struggling to get across the technical details of a CSRF attack, but there was a big focus on building a 'bespoke' solution. Cross-Site Request Forgery explained CSRF can be…
EE have released a patch for their BrightBox routers which addresses some of the issues that I disclosed. Whilst the device now takes more care of user credentials and doesn't seem to be exploitable remotely, it remains vulnerable to CSRF. This potentially allows an attacker to change almost any configuration…
