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Website Evidence Collector

By Isabel Barbera & Martijn Korse | Mar 14, 2020
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has published a tool that can be used to inspect a website and report which cookies and related technologies are being used. It's called the Website Evidence Collector, it's open source and published under the European Union Public License. If you own / maintain a website, it can be hard keeping track of all the cookies and related technologies. Having a good overview is important though: you need to ...
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Shodan Postman Collection

By Martijn Korse | Dec 18, 2019
The Christmas holidays are coming and to those of you who feel like doing something adventurous: there is now a new way to visit the dark caverns of the internet. We created an exciting combination of two existing services that make this trip possible: A Postman collection of all the currently available Shodan API calls. It's available for download on our github account: https://github.com/bitnesswise/shodan-postman-collection where you will find installation instructions as well.New to Shodan and/or ...
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Mitigating CVE-2019-11358 in old versions of jQuery

By Martijn Korse | Aug 2, 2019
A few months ago, a new vulnerability was found in jQuery, affecting all existing versions of jQuery. It was fixed only in the new version 3.4.0.The SNYK website has a lot of detailed information about this ‘Prototype Pollution’ vulnerability, so I won’t go into that here. For those interested, follow this link : https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-174006 What I find interesting is the fact that no patch has been made available for older versions - the argument of ...
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