Don't Worry About BREACH

Last week at the BlackHat security conference, a new attack on SSL secured content was unveiled. This attack is called BREACH, and has been generating a lot of buz on the internet. Tech blogs have been plastering their sites with articles about how there’s no fix, and how you can try to defend against BREACH. Well respected security people have been writing about it.

And I’m here to say don’t worry about it.

Preventing CSRF Attacks

There’s been a bit of noise in the past week about the proper way to prevent Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) attacks. It seemed to have started with this post. There’s been discussion in the comments, and on Twitter about it, and there seems to be several opposing viewpoints on the matter. I want to start off by saying that I agree completely with the post in question. But I figured I’d write a post to explain WHY I agree with it.