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Posted by on 20th October, 2003

Cross Site Scripting with Java applets exploit

Article by Marc Schoenefeld on cross site through Java applets. Unsigned applets coming from different sites may share data areas via undocumented static variables of the jdk. While altering these variables JDK internal states may become corrupt and functionality is no longer. This especially concerns XML processing which depends on the org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLProcessorVersion class. This behavior violates the isolation restriction of the sandbox....

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Posted by on 19th October, 2003

Protecting database connectionstrings

Protecting application secrets, such as database connection strings and passwords, requires careful consideration of a number of pertinent factors. This article explains the fundamentals of data protection and compares a variety of techniques that can be used to protect application settings. Check it out here:...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2003

Highlight your code with this online tool

How many times have you needed to post a piece of code in HTML and manually had to color and highlight the classes, methods and properties? Well, suffer no more….this tool will work for C#, VB.NET, J# and SQL in the first place, but AS and other languages will work as well. Let's see how long it takes for someone to come up with one for Actionscript. Try it out here:...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2003

Web Services through Flash Remoting experiment

With all the buzz about a the new Flash 7 Player having cross domain restrictions for the built-in webservices component, it is a good thing that webservice accessibility in Flash MX is still available through Flash Remoting. This experiment shows 4 simple webservices in action with Flash Remoting in Flash MX Experiment here: Web Services through Flash Remoting...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2003

Flash Player Switcher Tool

This clever tool allows you to switch from and to any Flash player version you have installed on your machine through one application, handling both ActiveX controls and the Netscape versions of the player. It also controls the standalone player version and IDE player version that are available onj your system. It even includes a command line version and logs all install/uninstall processes. Written by Alexander Blum and Alexander Mohr and you can get it at their website: FlashPluginSwitcher – Features FlashPluginSwitcher –...

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