How some sites prevent cross-site requests through referrer although there are redirections allowed

I read about referrer header that some sites use to allow only requests made by the pages of the site. So if I make a page hacker.com, and let this page make a request to https://twitter.com/i/flow/add_phone , twitter will refuse this requ… Continue reading How some sites prevent cross-site requests through referrer although there are redirections allowed

How short can a shortened base 62 url path be and be reasonably protected from a brute force attack?

If one is creating pseudo-random base 62 url paths, and one didn’t want those paths to be reasonably vulnerable to brute force attack. How short could they be?

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Now one could have expiring short urls and urls expecting to be re… Continue reading How short can a shortened base 62 url path be and be reasonably protected from a brute force attack?

Detecting the New CallStranger UPnP Vulnerability With Zeek

By Ryan Victory, Corelight Security Researcher On June 8, Yunus Çadırcı, a cybersecurity senior manager at EY Turkey released a whitepaper and proof of concept code repository for a newly discovered vulnerability in the Universal Plug an… Continue reading Detecting the New CallStranger UPnP Vulnerability With Zeek