Articles by Christoph Kerschbaumer
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Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API, advancing a safer web for everyone. We […]
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Inspecting Security and Privacy Settings of a Website
Inspecting the Content Security Policy of a Website Starting in Firefox 41, Mozilla provides a developer tool that allows users to inspect the security settings of a website. Using GCLI (Graphic Command Line Interface) a user can inspect the Content Security Policy (CSP) of a website. CSP is a security concept that allows websites to […]
