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Michele Spagnuolo

Personal blog · miki.it/blogsecurityprogramming

Michele Spagnuolo writes Miki's Blog, a personal blog at miki.it about security and programming. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The power of DNS rebinding: stealing WiFi passwords with a website”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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17mentions?
10HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Michele Spagnuolo's security posts, such as the Rosetta Flash JSONP abuse writeup and DNS rebinding, as technical references. One commenter calls the JSONP source interesting.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Michele Spagnuolo, Staff Information Security Engineer at Google.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The power of DNS rebinding: stealing WiFi passwords with a website
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-20
  2. BitIodine: Extracting Intelligence from the Bitcoin Network
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-13
  3. Abusing JSONP with Rosetta Flash
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-08
  4. /blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Please consider corresponding with the author of the Github repo to see if they can figure out why that address was included in the list. Based on the page for that tool ( http://miki.it/articles/papers/#bitiodine ), it looks like they would be interested to know of the failure.

    Comment linking /articles/papers/

    on “Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked”
  2. Submitted XSS in Google Finance as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  3. Some notes: 1) Never blacklist. Seriously, unless you are in the business of writing and securing browser parsers, you are never going to catch everything. There are many vectors not listed on OWASP's XSS Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet. See https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/scripting-1.html#restrictions-fo... for an idea of what you're up against. Because of the incredible number of ways you can cause security vulnerabilities…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/

    on “The Basics of Web Application Security”
  4. Submitted Abusing JSONP with Rosetta Flash as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. It makes DNS rebinding attacks simpler, for example: https://miki.it/blog/2015/4/20/the-power-of-dns-rebinding-st...

    Comment linking /blog/2015/4/20/the-power-of-dns-rebinding-stealing-wifi-passwords-with-a-website/

    on ““We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC””
  6. Submitted Put.io API design issues as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  7. I'm going to assume that the "JSONP vulnerability" is actually Rosetta Flash: https://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-fla...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/

    on “Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools”
  8. Submitted Mailbox.app Javascript execution as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. gfxmonk · 2014-08-28Recommends
    This writeup is poorly done, hard to follow, and ad-infested. The source ( http://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flas... ) is actually interesting though.

    Comment linking /blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flash/

    on “An Adobe Flash Exploit Leveraging JSONP Callback”
  10. Submitted The power of DNS rebinding: stealing WiFi passwords with a website as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted It’s just a game: a handful of scenarios in the Bitcoin world as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Adobe fixed Rosetta Flash today as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted XSRF and Cookie manipulation on Google.com as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The power of DNS rebinding: stealing WiFi passwords with a website (2015) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted BitIodine: Extracting Intelligence from the Bitcoin Network as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted XSS in Zagat, exploiting a XOR-based obfuscation algorithm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted BitIodine: Extracting Intelligence from the Bitcoin Network as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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