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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Premature Ajax-ulation

The Blackhat security conference in Las Vegas has come up trumps in the bad puns but good advice stakes, with SPI Labs warning business about the dangers of premature Ajax-ulation. What researchers Bryan Sullivan and Billy Hoffman were actually referring to was the threat of web developers relying too much upon their urge to use Ajax techniques. Techniques, the researchers claim, that can force far too much business logic over to the client side and as a result enable user manipulation leading to security breaches.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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