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Description: Parsing the OWASP Top Ten with a closer look at Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Introduction Our discussion of OWASP Top 10 Tools and Tactics garnered enough interest to warrant a closer look at each vulnerability as a separate entity with a specific example for deeper analysis. Forgive me in advance for conveying said deeper analysis out of sequence as defined by the Top 10; I’m beginning with #5 as it is part of active research and thus timely for me....

Panasonic has a lineup of mobile devices that are meant to survive the roughest of rough situations, and they’ve just announced a brand new, 5-inch mobile handset that is built just as tough. Panasonic has just announced the FZ-X1, a brand new handset meant for their Toughpad family. It features a 5-inch 720p display, and under the hood you’ll find a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB of RAM....

PayPal appears to be calling out Apple and its newly announced mobile payment service Apple Pay with an ad appearing in The New York Times print edition (via Pando Daily) indirectly reminding people of last month’s disastrous iCloud photo leak when a list of celebrities found their personal photos an intimate situations published on the web. The ad reads “We the people want our money safer than our selfies,” but PayPal isn’t without its own security issue in the past....

Types of Information to Include in Your Signature Social media handle, i.e., Twitter, Facebook, InstagramLink to your website or blogTelephone number or alternate email address Create a Signature in Outlook 2016 First, launch Outlook 2016 then select File > Options. Next, select the Mail tab and then Signatures. Select New and type in a name for the signature you’re creating. Enter the information you would like to include with your email signature....

Popular third-party podcast player Overcast has been updated this weekend with a nifty new clip sharing feature. Now, with Overcast for iOS, you can easily share clips of podcasts that are up to 1-minute long, either in video or audio form. In a blog post, Overcast developer Marco Arment explained the motivation behind this new feature. Essentially, clip sharing in Overcast should make it much easier for listeners to share bits and pieces of podcasts they find interesting or funny:...

CES hasn’t officially begun yet, but we already have some big news coming out of the Mac hardware sector. OWC, the company that’s well-known for its focus on Mac-centric storage, connectivity, software and expansion solutions, has acquired Akitio, known for innovative Thunderbolt 3 products. This is big news around Mac circles, because Akitio has established itself as a reliable, innovative brand. For example, Akitio produced the first mainstream Mac-compatible external GPU chassis, the Akitio Node, and continued to make a variety of products aimed at meeting the needs of modern Mac and Windows customers....

In a hilarious and slightly disturbing new deep fake video, Christina Ricci’s Wednesday Adams is recast as Ron Swanson of Parks and Rec fame. Deep fake videos use machine learning technology to edit videos, and this isn’t the first time Swanson has appeared in deep fake fan art. Parks and Rec ended several years ago, but it’s still streaming on Netflix. The series still has a very devoted fan base, and Ron Swanson remains one of the most popular characters....

Here’s the story behind all of Andy Dwyer’s various personas from Parks and Recreation. Chris Pratt portrayed the character throughout all seven seasons of the NBC sitcom, and although the actor took time off in season 6 to work on Guardians of the Galaxy, he returned before the series concluded in 2015. Andy started Parks and Rec as Ann Perkins’ immature boyfriend, and was a relatively minor character. His role gradually expanded, causing him to be one of the primary characters and subsequently a fan-favorite....

The transport layer is the fourth layer (layer 4) of the seven-layer OSI model. The transport layer provides end-to-end communication services for applications. Layer 4 takes care of assembling and disassembly of data through services such as connection-oriented support, reliability, flow control, and multiplexing. The transport layer is best known for TCP which is a connection-oriented protocol. The TCP protocol in this layer keeps track of the segments and retransmits those segments that fail in transit....

Not every product is a smash-hit, no matter how much excitement gets built up for it before launch. Case in point: OUYA. The Android-powered video game console that was meant to revolutionize living room gaming never really found a foothold, with results far less than stellar — and much worse than the expectations. Now, according to a new report, it looks like Ouya, the company behind the similarly named console, are looking for the exit....

With a new Penny Dreadful spinoff series set to premiere in 2020, let’s take a look back at one of the original show’s most interesting characters; the werewolf Ethan Chandler. Played by Josh Hartnett, Ethan was introduced on Penny Dreadful as a charming American sharpshooter who came to Victorian London with his Wild West Show – a traveling show that displayed his amazing gunslinger skills. It was in London where he was recruited by Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) into their supernatural missions....

The obvious question to start matters off: how was 2016 for gaming in general and Lenovo in particular? Any specific trend that you would like to highlight? 2016 was a good year for Lenovo gaming. Lenovo ranked #2 in the global gaming market – a great testament to our increasing focus and investment to bring the most immersive experiences to gamers. From a trend perspective, the evolution of PC gaming has significantly shifted in recent years as the quality of gaming device specs become even faster, more powerful and responsive and, better connected....

Is OS X destined to be rebranded as macOS? Such a change wouldn’t at all be surprising, with iOS, watchOS, and tvOS already donning similar naming conventions. At this point, OS X is the odd man out, but a recent finding indicates that a change might be in the works. Brazilian Apple blog MacMagazine points to the name used for an Interface Builder document buried deep within OS X’s System folder as evidence of a possible naming change....

The Persona 5 Royal Western release date may have been leaked thanks to a PlayStation Store listing that went public earlier in Indonesia and Taiwan, both of which suggest that an English and Chinese version of the game are coming relatively soon. Persona 5 Royal is the upcoming re-release of the widely-praised JRPG that made Persona a much more popular series in the west, and the game has been so resonant with fans that developers Atlus and P Studio created a re-release that will include a slew of new content....

Apple has opened access to its Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps at iCloud.com to all, even those without an Apple device (via TechCrunch). Earlier this month Apple opened the apps to those without an Apple device while offering 1GB of free storage (an iCloud account with an Apple device has free access to 5GB). However, previously access to the apps for those without an Apple device was limited to the iCloud beta site at beta....

Paige is an English professional wrestling personality, actress, and retired professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE under the ring name Paige. She is a two-time Divas Champion and was the inaugural NXT Women’s Champion in WWE’s developmental branch NXT, holding both championships concurrently at one time. The film Fighting with Family is executive produced by Dwayne Johnson and is the story of Paige growing up in a wrestling family and the conflict of competing with her brother for a spot in the WWE....

April Ludgate and Andy Dwyer of Parks and Recreation fame are one of the most hilarious and adorable couples in the history of television… except when they’re the most hopeless pair of bumbling people who can’t manage to adult. Their love for one another is undeniable, and they’re often quite complementary to one another, but between a guy who lived in a pit and considered vermin his “colleagues” and a girl who’s sharp yet can’t even buy herself dishware, they don’t always have it together between them....

Path, one of the last major social apps still holding out on an iOS 7 update, has finally been updated with a new design as well as a set of new preferences and features. The app’s settings have been reorganized to simplify certain actions, as noted on the development blog: The shop that houses in-app purchases for sticker packs and premium account upgrades has also gotten an overhaul and now presents everything in a simpler interface....

All it took for a good Oscars ceremony was no host. The drama of the 2019 Oscar ceremony was just as captivating (if not more so) than the conventional awards race. With ratings hitting an all-time low last year, ABC and the Academy tried multiple ways to shake up the dusty awards, almost all of which were met with immediate derision and backtracking: the Popular Film Oscar; not airing four categories; not playing all Original Song nominees....

The 92nd Academy Awards are just around the corner, and with it, the awards season will end for another year, and people will go down in film history. In terms of the nominees this year, it has been a bumpy ride. The Academy has snubbed a lot of immensely talented people who delivered in a big way this past year in favor lesser deserving nominees, including in the acting categories....