GoDaddy Shutters 14,000 Subdomains Tied to ‘Snake Oil’ Scams

GoDaddy worked with researchers to shut down 15,000 domain-shadowing websites tied to bogus affiliate marketing offers promoted via spam campaigns. Continue reading GoDaddy Shutters 14,000 Subdomains Tied to ‘Snake Oil’ Scams

Plausible scenario for a PHP session fixation attack with default settings?

Recently I was musing on the problem and realized that I cannot think of a plausible scenario for a session fixation attack against a PHP application running with default settings.

Given session.use_only_cookies’s default va… Continue reading Plausible scenario for a PHP session fixation attack with default settings?

Uploading of backdoor results in the server removing file extensions. Any workaround? [on hold]

I am totally new within the scene of information security, but find it extremely interesting and thus taking a course at my university, where we have to break into a website/webserver. The website is an image sharing website…. Continue reading Uploading of backdoor results in the server removing file extensions. Any workaround? [on hold]

Is there a cleaner way to save a copy of an object (with its data) for access throughout the application than making it global?

The framework is WordPress. There’s a thing such as “filters”. Filters are, more or less, global variables but without the stigma, the way they work is: you give the filter a name and what you want to be inside of it:

add_fi… Continue reading Is there a cleaner way to save a copy of an object (with its data) for access throughout the application than making it global?

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