Category Archives: Security

Setting secure attribute of JSESSIONID cookie in ColdFusion 8

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 24, 2009

As part of PCI compliance our servers were run through third party security auditing and one warning we received was “Missing Secure Attribute in an Encrypted Session (SSL) Cookie”. This warning referred to the JSESSIONID cookie being set in our SSL enabled pages not having the SECURE attribute set. In ColdFusion there is no way [...]

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Web data security paranoia

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 23, 2009

My recent experiences with several hacking attacks has made me think more about application and data security on the web. In today’s world nothing can be taken for granted and security should be of the highest concern, no mater how simple you think your application or trivial the data you store. Many web applications are [...]

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Preventing SQL Injection attacks in ColdFusion

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 17, 2009

This is an article I came across on Ben Forta’s blog. This gives some very good tips on preventing SQL injection attacks and provides some excellent best practices. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/sql_injection.html When I took up my current position we had to do a vulnerability scan to become PCI compliant and well we originally failed horribly. After much work we [...]

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HostMySite security breach

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 4, 2009

I recently posted an article about a security breach on my web server which was as a result of my own stupidity but when a site that I manage and host on HostMySite.com is breached twice in 4 days I get extremely peeved. The incident occurred on their ColdFusion shared hosting plan and an attacker [...]

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Security is important!

By Donnie Bachan | Published: January 30, 2009

I am guilty of an unforgiveable crime. I deployed an unsecured webserver and in IT that is THE ULTIMATE IN STUPIDITY! I am sorry and will not let it happen again. As a result the server was infected and became a zombie covertly attacking other servers. The machine was infected with the Downandup/Conficker trojan. This attacks [...]