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A couple of good rails related articles

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

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http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/21/real-world-csrf-update-your-radiant-now/

http://www.igvita.com/2007/06/05/creating-javascript-widgets-in-rails/

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A CSRF Article

Monday, May 5th, 2008

There is a good article about CSRF Attacks at ROR Security.  It discusses a couple different ways that the attack can be executed and how to prevent these.

Here is the link: http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/05/csrf-an-underestimated-attack-method/

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Joe Walker’s Slides on Web Security

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/10/29/web_application_security.html

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Security update for Restful Authentication

Monday, October 29th, 2007

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2007/10/28/restful_authentication-login-security/

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A good article about Sessions and Rails

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/10/21/sessions-and-cookies-in-ruby-on-rails

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Ruby on Rails Security Cheatsheet

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

There has been a lot of great information about Rails and security.  Here is the RoR Secuirty Cheatsheet.

Enjoy.

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A good Rails Security Guide

Friday, September 21st, 2007

http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/9/20/ruby-on-rails-security-guide

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Good article from Google Security Team

Friday, July 20th, 2007

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2007/07/automating-web-application-security.html

They may know a thing or two about securing web apps :)

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A great FAQ about Security from OWASP

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

This is a really detailed FAQ about all the major topics about web application security.  It is a great read.  Here is the link.

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ROR Security Blog on a roll

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Here is an article about input parameters validation framework.  It is just a couple of functions but it works very well and is easy to use.

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P.S.  I will be writing something original soon…stay tuned.

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