Tag Archives: browsers

Anonymous browsing or being a web ninja

Posted on January 29, 2010 by samurai

These days it seems like everyone is looking at what you do online. Online advertisers make money from the ads placed on your site, but they also gather statistics about all your visitors for their own purposes. Search engines store … Continue reading →

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Google’s ‘Chrome’ released…

Posted on September 3, 2008 by samurai

Google has recently released it’s browser ‘Chrome‘ for beta testing. After playing around with it a bit, I liked the shiny look of the interface, but it just doesn’t stack up to Firefox, yet. I do worry about the implications … Continue reading →

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Using RefControl

Posted on July 9, 2008 by samurai

Continuing on with my web application penetration testing series I will now go into the usage of RefControl. RefControl is useful in checking referrer-based exploits, such as CSRF. RefControl RefControl allows you to specify the referrer for a site when … Continue reading →

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Oops….

Posted on July 7, 2008 by samurai

It has been brought to my attention that the P3P settings in Firefox 2 have actually been disabled. I missed this in my research as I was going more to understand how it worked and simply assumed that it did … Continue reading →

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Cookies, Cookies, and Cookies

Posted on June 8, 2008 by samurai

[April, 2010]Update: Mozilla removed this functionality from Firefox in version 2 and will not be reviving it. I’m going to leave the text below, as it does describe P3P, but any mention of Firefox should be considered as an example. … Continue reading →

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