CSP

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You know what I really like? A nice, slick, clean set of violation reports from the content security policy (CSP) I run on Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP). You know what I really don't like? Logging on to Report URI [https://report-uri.com/] and being greeted with something like this: This blog post is about how add-ons and extensions in browsers cause CSP violations like the ones above and how they should be dealt with. Some brief background first as I'll be sharing this...

The more time that goes by and the more deeply I give it thought, the more convinced I am that the web is held together with sticky tape. No - cyber-sticky tape! Because especially when it comes to security, there are fundamental and inherent shortcomings in everything from HTTP to HTML and many of the other acronyms that make the web work as it does today. We've been trying to get this right for 25 years as of yesterday too: > Today: The 25th anniversary of the web: https://t.co/57NuBcpuqt Th...

A couple of years back as the US presidential campaign was ramping up, the Trump camp did something stupid. I know, we're all shocked but bear with me because it's an important part of the narrative of this post. One of their developers embedded this code in the campaign's donation website: See the problem? This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjt...

I've long been a proponent of Content Security Policies (CSPs). I've used them to fix mixed content warnings on this blog after Disqus made a little mistake [https://www.troyhunt.com/disqus-mixed-content-problem-and-fixing-it-with-a-csp/], you'll see one adorning Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) and I even wrote a dedicated Pluralsight course on browser security headers [https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1196446/424552/7490?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pluralsight.com%2Fcourses%2Fbrowser...

I run a workshop titled Hack Yourself First [https://www.troyhunt.com/workshops/] in which people usually responsible for building web apps get to try their hand at breaking them. As it turns out, breaking websites is a heap of fun (with the obvious caveats) and people really get into the exercises. The first one that starts to push people into territory that's usually unfamiliar to builders is the module on XSS. In that module, we cover reflected XSS which relies on the premise of untrusted dat...

It's finally time: it's time the pendulum swings further towards the "secure by default" end of the scale than what it ever has before. At least insofar as securing web traffic goes because as of this week's Chrome 62's launch, any website with an input box is now doing this when served over an insecure connection: It's not doing it immediately for everyone [https://textslashplain.com/2017/10/18/chrome-field-trials/], but don't worry, it's coming very soon even if it hasn't yet arrived for yo...

Content security policies [https://www.troyhunt.com/understanding-csp-the-video-tutorial-edition/] (CSPs) can be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because they can do neat stuff like my recent piece on upgrading insecure requests [https://www.troyhunt.com/disqus-mixed-content-problem-and-fixing-it-with-a-csp/] yet a curse because they can also do screwy things like break your site [https://www.troyhunt.com/how-to-break-your-site-with-content/]. Now in fairness, the breaking bit linked to t...

I write a blog with a lot of security things on it so understandably, it upsets me somewhat when my site throws security warnings: I'd had a number of people report this and indeed I'd seen it myself, albeit transiently. Diving into the console, I found the source of the problem: Who the hell is Circulate?! And what are they doing in my blog? Let's find out: Right... I don't have any ads on my blog these days (just sponsor messages) so there shouldn't be any third-party monetisation goi...

A couple of months ago I did a video titled Understanding CSRF, the video tutorial edition [https://www.troyhunt.com/understanding-csrf-video-tutorial/] which was a pretty raw run through of the mechanics and defences of cross site request forgery. It's content I often show in my workshops [https://www.troyhunt.com/workshops/] and I recorded the video pretty much as I present it in those sessions. Today I thought I'd do one on content security policies or as we otherwise know it, CSP. This is...