Researcher warns that many .NET applications might be vulnerable to arbitrary file writes because .NET’s HTTP client proxy classes also accept non-HTTP URLs, a behavior developers are responsible to ...

Now that we have SOCKS available (#645) we can sniff traffic, detect non-HTTP traffic, and reliably pass it through to the real destination unmodified (and inspect the raw bytes being sent back & ...

Abstract: Website fingerprinting is exploited to analyze encrypted traffic traces and infer the visited website. Existing website fingerprinting methods can achieve satisfying performance for the HTTP ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ask for permission before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, ...

HTTP 402 is being reimagined to facilitate digital payments, marking a significant shift in how online transactions are managed, according to Pantera Capital. The HTTP 402 status code, originally ...

Abstract: Moving away from plain-text DNS communications, users can now switch to encrypted DNS protocols for name resolutions. DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) employs QUIC - the latest transport protocol - for ...

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is arguably the most powerful innovation in AI integration to date, but sadly, its purpose and potential are largely misunderstood. So what's the best way to really ...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational ...

What is HTTP 402, and why does it matter? The web was not really built with payments in mind, especially not for autonomous agents or machines. But with the rise of AI and decentralized finance (DeFi) ...