Presentation on HTML5 Security, Part-2 - OWASP Hyd 12 August 2012 novogeek (0) In continuation my previous talk on HTML5 Security at OWASP Hyd, I have covered few more interesting concepts at OWASP Hyd August meet. Slides are more or less the same as my previous session but it was more demo driven where I've shown known security problems and secure coding practi... [More]
A note on JSONP & misconceptions of Cross Origin AJAX 18 July 2012 novogeek (0) Web developers who have worked on accessing APIs using JavaScript would be very much familiar with the term “JSONP”. Many web devs whom I have met offline or in online discussion forums seem to have some misconceptions about JSONP. Below are some of the basic & common definitions whi... [More]
Browser Internals: Content Isolation with Same Origin Policy-Microsoft UG Dev Day 30 June 2012 novogeek (0) Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH) has organized Developer Day at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Hyderabad this weekend. It was a half day event with very good line up of sessions and I had the opportunity to present on a very exciting topic-"Content Isolation with Same Origin Pol... [More]
HTML5 Sandbox and some notes 25 June 2012 novogeek (0) While building mashups, one of the primary goals is to securely isolate content coming from different origins. Generally, client side mashups are built in one of the two ways-(1) Embedding third party scripts in a web page (2) Loading remote content via iframes. Embedding scripts provides more inter... [More]
Presentation on HTML5 Security-OWASP Hyderabad 22 May 2012 novogeek (0) Happy to say that I had the opportunity to present at OWASP Hyderabad chapter on "HTML5 Security" on 19th May, 2012. The event had awesome audience from diverse backgrounds in security domain-security researchers, penetration testers, security consultants, few developers etc. The talk went for about... [More]
Microsoft MVP Award and my two cents 01 April 2012 novogeek (0) First of all, I’m really happy and proud to say that I’ve received Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the third consecutive year. YaY!! I’ve received my first MVP award in 2010 under “ASP.NET” category and in 2011, 2012 under “Internet Explorer&r... [More]
What web devs should know about HTTP ”Referer” header 17 March 2012 novogeek (2) Every HTTP request has a set of Request Headers which carry pieces of useful information from the client to the server. One such request header is the "Referer" header, which contains address of the previous page from which the current page was requested. E.g., If you search for "HTML5" on google a... [More]
JSFoo Chennai 2012–”JavaScript is mischievous. Handle 3rd party content with care!” 20 February 2012 novogeek (1) It is always exciting to attend a technical conference focusing on a particular theme and even more if you get the opportunity to present. Continuing their good run, HasGeek has organized JsFoo Chennai 2012, India’s first JavaScript conference series, at IIT Madras Research park. There were se... [More]
Secure Web Messaging in HTML5–Microsoft UG Dev Day 29 January 2012 novogeek (0) Happy to say that I have presented on this interesting topic at Developer Day organized by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH). Not sure if any other monthly User Group meet would attract 150+ audience over a long weekend! Presentation: Click Here Demo: Click Here The half day event went... [More]
Social plugins-winners of the modern web, with weakness! 28 December 2011 novogeek (0) Web users don’t need an introduction to Facebook’s “Like” button or Twitter’s “Tweet” button. Along with several such buttons, they help in making online presence more social and hence are called “Social Plugins”. Inserting them into a website is... [More]