Makl Ndrix

The Internet, as it is today, is a mash-up of JavaScript enabled services, often included from external websites. Internet companies offer so-called widgets, which are JavaScript tools that can be used in your own page. Popular examples of this are site analytics (Omniture, Google Analytics, etc) or share-abilities (AddThis, AddToAny, …). It’s by overwriting Javascript libraries on a page, that we can do other things, such as recording keystrokes.

“Overwriting” javascript libraries, or rather “inserting javascript” can be done in several ways. Cross Site Scripting is one of them, but for the sake of this blog post, I will act as a malicious proxy administrator, and overwrite the Google Analytics DNS entry (www.google-analytics.com) and “fake” the ga.js javascript file.

For this, you’d need only 2 files:

• Javascript keylogger
• PHP backend script

This javascript file, found here, holds 3 parts: JQuery, a base64 encoder and the keylogger code itself: Continue reading…

In Ruby on Rails, authenticity tokens are generated to prevent CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) attacks. These tokens generate a unique “identifier” to prevent other website from making requests on your behalf, or so-called “session riding”.

In Ruby on Rails, to have this identifier available for you, you need to put <%= csrf_meta_tag %> in your view, usually in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb. This tag creates something like:

<meta name=”csrf-param” content=”authenticity_token”/>
<meta name=”csrf-token” content=”uDDuQj14CCJ…”>

If you create your own AJAX functions, say with JQuery, you would need these values in order to have rails handle your request. This can be done using the following:

var param = $(‘meta[name=csrf-token]‘).attr(‘content’);

Which you can use then in your AJAX requests

$.post(‘/post’, { body: $(‘#post_body’).val(), authenticity_token: param }, function(data){
var ret = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
if(ret.status==”ok”) {
…

Drawter is one of those tools that are just too good to be true. It allows you to “draw” a page, and then export it’s CSS and HTML code.

It uses JQuery heavily, and I’m loving it. It does one simple thing, making HTML pages, but does it very well.