Category Archives: Security

Hacking Silverlight part 2

Posted on May 15, 2012 by erictummers

My trip down hackers lane continues. Read part 1 here where I discovered the Csla WcfPortal is used. Before starting my “attack” I do some recon. Silverlight has a build-in security step that requests the clientaccesspolicy.xml file before allowing a … Continue reading →

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Hacking Silverlight

Posted on May 9, 2012 by erictummers

Someone asked me to hack his Silverlight portal. The goal was to test the security and to give some recommondations for future projects. This is part one of my trip down hackers lane. As a Microsoft developer I know Silverlight … Continue reading →

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Salted Hashed Passwords

Posted on July 26, 2011 by erictummers

Saving passwords for your application must be done with caution. Especialy when securing websites. Leaked databases have been exposed all over the internet. In the event your database is exposed you want to make it as hard as possible to … Continue reading →

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OpenID

Posted on December 15, 2010 by erictummers

I have a project hosted at unfuddle and I noticed the choice of signing in with OpenID. My wordpress url can be a key to login to another site. How cool is that! Ater linking my OpenID to my Unfuddle … Continue reading →

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