Just came across this article: Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0-days for iOS and OS X, by The Register. Since the news itself did not explain the nature of the attack well enough, I went onto reading the full paper: Xing, Bai, Li, Wang, Chen, Liao: “Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS” […]
A new bug in OpenSSL was found by Masashi Kikuchi of Lepidum. It affects all versions of OpenSSL earlier than 1.0.1. For details, please refer to: http://ccsinjection.lepidum.co.jp/blog/2014-06-05/CCS-Injection-en/index.html and http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
So, there has been a flurry of worries induced by the CNET and other articles [1] about “Covert Redirect”. Like Leandro Boffi wrote in his blog post [2], this is not a new attack. It is an attack that has been known for at least 6 years. It is very disappointing that, after this long years, […]
So, ID Token in OpenID connect is audience restricted to the client while the OAuth bearer access token is audience restricted to the protected resource. It is a bearer. It can be used by anybody. It is a common model in the real world. Cash and many train tickets are such an examples. Other example […]
Lot’s of articles appeared on the Yahoo! Voices’ password leakage on the 11th. Many people seem to be assuming that Yahoo!s password has been leaked, but to me it seems a little different. According to the press articles[1], it seem the password has been extracted from a service called Yahoo!Voices using SQL Union injection. The […]
In the paper titled “Signing Me onto Your Accounts through Facebook and Google: a Traffic-Guided Security Study of Commercially Deployed Single-Sign-On Web Services“, Rui Wang, Shuo Chen, XiaoFeng Wang reported the “vulnerability” in some OpenID 2.0 implementations. The vulnerability they listed can probably be named as “OpenID Signature Check Failure” and “OpenID Data Type Confusion”. […]
So, BrowserID is buzzing. In general, browser helping user to secure their login is a good thing. But, I have bunch of problem with the current state of BrowserID. I feel like it has gone back to the era of OpenID 1.0, which had numerous problems. Privacy Advantage? In How BrowserID differs from OpenID, it is […]