Because of the sister of a friend needed to download videos of spiegel.de for school, I searched for a possibility to do that. It took just a few minutes (or even seconds) to find what I was looking for by analyzing the HTTP traffic, sent to the server by the Movie-Player of SPIEGEL ONLINE, which [...]

What is it about? This blog posting describes a way on how you can patch security problems and real vulnerabilities in your PHP code, when you’re not allowed to change the code or for example if this is just not possible for any reason. What you’ll learn here is something like virtual patching, as we [...]

Long time ago I said, that we’ll run into the same security problems we already started to fix in our web applications at the point, where we start using AJAX aka. Web 2.0 stuff. For example XSS is well known in the web development since a while and many developer try to avoid such vulnerabilities [...]