In Depth
In Depth: Common Authorisation Failures!
[In Depth #33] Let's explore a number of common ways developers fail authorisation in Laravel apps, and what you need to watch out for so you don't make the same mistakes!
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In Depth: Five Ways to Fail at Authentication
[In Depth #32] Let's explore 5 different "Authentication Fails" that I've come across, as a reminder for why it's so important to get authentication right.
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In Depth: Laravel Security Audits Top 10 (2024)!
[In Depth #31] Here are the Top 10 security issues I've found during my security audits, highlighting the areas we as a community need to improve our security.
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In Depth: Pentesting Laravel part 4 - Reading Code Pays Off!
[In Depth #30] In the final part of the series, we finish our code searches and spend some time reading the code - which really pays off in terms of finding juicy vulnerabilities to exploit and report.
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In Depth: Pentesting Laravel part 3 - Looking for "Interesting" Code
[In Depth #29] It's time to spend some time looking for smelly or suspicious code, searching for common patterns and functions that usually show up around weaknesses. 🕵️
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In Depth: Pentesting Laravel part 2 - Configs, Dependencies, and Routes
[In Depth #28] Continuing our Laravel Security Audit and Penetration Test, we're looking into configs and dependences, and following threads to discover 4 CRITICAL vulnerabilities!
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In Depth: Pentesting Laravel part 1 - Passive Scans
[In Depth #27] Let me walk you through my process of conducting a Laravel Security Audit and Penetration Test, starting with the passive scans that usually find a lot of low-hanging fruit!
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In Depth: Using CSS Clickjacking to Steal Passwords
[In Depth #26] It's time for some nightmare fuel with a sneaky inline CSS vulnerability I found in a popular Laravel package!
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In Depth: Graceful Encryption Key Rotation
[In Depth #25] Laravel makes effective use of encryption for security purposes, but what happens if your encryption key needs to be rotated? Let's see how Laravel 11 handles it...
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In Depth: Registration Without Enumeration!
[InDepth#24] It's time to answer the question: how do you build user registration and authentication without an enumeration vector?
Newsletter
In Depth: Protecting Staging Sites!
[InDepth#23] Staging sites usually contain buggy code, debugging tools, and lower security than production, while also being a gateway into your environment and sometimes even contain customer data...
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In Depth: Introducing Random
[InDepth#22] Random generates cryptographically secure random values in a range of different formats through a simple helper package for PHP.