Didier Stevens

Wednesday 31 October 2012

“Please Buy Our Competitor’s Products”

Filed under: Hacking,Vulnerabilities — Didier Stevens @ 19:55

I had a very good Samurai WTF training at Brucon by Raul Siles.

When Raul discussed the fact that clients are not worried about cross-site scripting when you demonstrate it with an alert box, I got the following idea:

Let’s redirect the customer to the competitor’s website. So instead of alert(“XSS”); let’s do window.location = “www.competitor.com”;. This will demonstrate that a cross-site script can cost your client money.

BTW, our training took place in a church:

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