Google Espionage: Same Egg’s in a New Basket

Submitted by kakroo on Sat, 2010-02-06 18:49.

The recent incident at Google shook the entire world, but was it merely a one-off incident or a wake-up call? Did the event gather importance just because Google threatened to pull out of China or stop the so called censorship or was there something more sinister? I tried to explore a little.

URL-manipulation - still a relevant threat

Submitted by Kai on Tue, 2007-12-11 08:37.

passport
security
URL-manipulation
web application
web security

And now the Canadian Passport application web-site was discovered to have a fault - by a simple change of the ID in the URL, all applications and privacy data of other users where available.

Duh.

Discovered at the I.T. Security Guy.