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+-   CSRF Flaws Found on Major Websites on Monday September 29 2008, @06:22PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2008, @06:22PM
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An anonymous reader writes "DarkReading reports that "researchers from Princeton University today revealed their discovery of four major Websites susceptible to the silent-but-deadly cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack — including one on INGDirect.com's site that would let an attacker transfer money out of a victim's bank account....Bill Zeller, a PhD candidate at Princeton, says the CSRF bug that he and fellow researcher Edward Felton found on INGDirect.com represents one of the first publicly disclosed CSRF flaws on a bank site. "It is the first example of a CSRF attack that allows money to be transferred out of a bank account that I'm aware of," Zeller says." More info: Freedom to Tinker post, Research Paper [pdf], WebMonkey"
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