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CORS & SOP – Security acronyms explained

September 18, 2017December 4, 2017Daniel HepperAPI, Django, Security, Web Development

This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. In the good old times of web development, websites were pretty self-contained. You had an HTML page with a CSS stylesheet, some images, maybe a bit of Javascript, all served from the same server (e.g. example.com). Maybe your static files […]

XSS – Security Acronyms explained

September 7, 2017December 4, 2017Daniel HepperDjango, JavaScript, Security, Web Development

This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. What the XSS? XSS stands for Cross-Site Scripting. Cross-Site Scripting is a code injection technique. Through carefully crafted input, an attacker injects code, usually JavaScript, into a website. This code is then run by the victim’s browser and can basically […]