Hall of Fame | Defend the Web

dalou
12 years ago

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Maybe there could be a hall of fame for people that find security flaws in this website. You could use it as a learning tool as well by posting what was wrong, and then what you did to fix it. Of course no stupid DDoS attacks though!

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Luke [flabbyrabbit]
12 years ago

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It has been a consideration but there hasn’t really been a great number of security flaws reported. There has only been a handful of XSS vulnerabilities.

dalou
12 years ago

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SECURED! Thats awesome.

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Luke [flabbyrabbit]
12 years ago

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I wouldn’t go that far, as with everything there will be vulnerabilities somewhere … it is just that no one has found them, or at least not reported them.

dalou
12 years ago

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There has been a couple of times when I get a db error saying the ship is going down. What causes that?

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Luke [flabbyrabbit]
12 years ago | edited 12 years ago

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There is another thread discussing this problem http://www.hackthis.co.uk/forum/general-information/off-topic/168-o in a nutshell it is when there are too many users accessing the site concurrently.

Keeper
12 years ago

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I suppose that when the site gets bigger (as it is going to be), more and more flaws will be found no matter how secure it may be. I’m totally positive about this idea of HoF - every hacking web has one.

Luke [flabbyrabbit]
12 years ago

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I fully agree with you @Keeper. I would also like to take this opportunity to reiterate that if anyone does find any vulnerabilities in this site that they should report them immediately to an admin or moderator.