It's was about a year ago, someone in my rather big office (100~200 people) started to send annoying emails with cheesy phrases and images regarding the new year resolutions. These emails were sent from a made-up gmail account. I've realized that this will be a good opportunity to test »
Exactly 2 months ago The 6th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference was held in Tel-Aviv. It was packed with presentations from leading security researchers. Luckily all of these presentations are in English and available here. »
tl;dr; Browsers doesn’t handle webcam permissions well enough. Users should be extremely wary about what’s going on in their browser. From a list of 30 bugs submitted to google regarding that issue, most have been fixed, but some are still alive. The most obvious bug which is »
tl;dr; The concept of session memory is not valid anymore in today’s browsers. Even sessionStorage is not cleared after closing the tab. It’s easily revived when clicking on “Reopen closed tab”. That might seem as a bug – not if you look at the spec which is rather »
tl;dr; I’ve created mechanism that will leverage the secure nature of the browser sessionStorage or memoryStorage for authentication and will still allow the user to open multiple tabs without having to re-login every time. A refresher about relevant browser storage mechanism localStorage ~5MB, saved for infinity or until »