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26th October 2008 - Link Blog

Web Security Horror Stories: The Director's Cut. Slides from the talk on web application security I gave this morning at <head>, the worldwide online conference. I just about managed to resist the temptation to present in my boxers. Topics include XSS, CSRF, Login CSRF and Clickjacking.

Posted 26th October 2008 at 12:15 pm

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