Introducing the Same-origin Policy Whitepaper

Introducing the Same-origin Policy Whitepaper

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Same-origin Policy (SOP) is a set of restrictions originally implemented by Netscape developers to help securely manage the relationships and connections between web resources such as HTML documents and other content, APIs ...
Exploiting Insecure crossdomain.xml to Bypass Same Origin Policy (ActionScript PoC)

Exploiting Insecure crossdomain.xml to Bypass Same Origin Policy (ActionScript PoC)

Adobe Flash is among the most popular browser plugins and also ships by default with a couple of popular web browsers. Its widespread prevalence has made it a frequent target of attacks ...

Defeating the Same Origin Policy: Part II

In my last post I gave details of how unsigned applets could bypass the same origin policy in order to make arbitrary network connections; the Sun alert for this issue is here ...
Defeating the Same Origin Policy: Part I

Defeating the Same Origin Policy: Part I

So last week Sun released updated versions of the Java Runtime Environment and with them, a host of Sun Alerts. These are neatly summarised on the Sun Security blog. Over the next ...