Re: FLASH: OT: COOKIE SECUTIRY ISSUE IN IE

[Markus Gut]

> For those of you using cookies with an IE audience you may want

> to read this.  I've seen lots of junior programmers storing

> passwords and ids in cookies, this kind of bug could be very

> serious.

>

> http://www.peacefire.org/security/iecookies/


Of course it is, and of course there are another 4689 bugs in IE

(and Netscape, too!) who are very serious.


If you want to learn more about security problems, I suggest to

read some stuff at the following Web sites and subscribe to the

Bugtraq/NTBugtraq mailing lists.


Gregori Guninski (many security related bugs in IE/Netscape)

http://www.nat.bg/~joro/

SecurityFocus

http://www.securityfocus.com/


Bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/about/feedback/subscribe-bugtraq.htm

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NTBugtraq

http://www.ntbugtraq.com


Markus






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