Flash Player Cross Server Scripting Security Issue

flash, security / By

As reported on the 5th of June 2002 in a paper from Eyes On Security (Bypassing JavaScript Filters – the Flash! Attack), Flash SWF content can allow malicious users of web sites that allow users to upload or include SWF content to get access to information (cookies etc) that they aren’t supposed to have access to. Today Macromedia has released a security tech note about the issue: Macromedia: MPSB02-08 – Macromedia Flash Player Cross Server Scripting Security Issue It describes the problem in detail, and most interestingly offers a solution […]

Flash Player Cross Server Scripting Security Issue Read More »

Message Board Life Cycle

4 Comments / flash / By

Matt Rice is ranting about The Flash Message Board Life Cycle over at SwfNews. I think he has formulated the life cycle of a successful message board pretty good, be it a Flash message board or a message board for anything else. I have seen this in news groups, web boards and to some extent in mailing lists. The problem is in the numbers, and the solution? Probably to make a taxation system of some kind. Personally I am of the opinion that users that just consume should have to

Message Board Life Cycle Read More »

Phil Chung is looking for Flash feeds for his Flash RSS reader

2 Comments / flash, weblogs / By

Just a heads up, if you have a Flash blog, and would like to be included in the channel list of the Flash RSS Reader soon to be released in a new and improved version, then you should go over to Philter’s Blog and let him know you exist. Be aware that his RSS reader currently requires your feed to be in the RSS 0.91 format.

Phil Chung is looking for Flash feeds for his Flash RSS reader Read More »

Words from the source: RFC

rants and raves / By

Thought I would start collecting original descriptions to how words/terms started out. The first is RFC, by Vint Cerf. Vint Cerf on the origin of RFCs Steve Crocker wrote RFC #1 – he knew that we needed to document our design work but was very conscious of the fact that we were just graduate students, not the principal investigators on the ARPANET project. Early in the a.m. he was casting about for some way to describe these documents and came up with “Request for Comments” – a kind of humble

Words from the source: RFC Read More »

Flash sites: Flashplayer.com

2 Comments / flash / By

Flash Player “is a developers and enthusiast portal for viewer driven content” to quote the guys over at Flash Player. In many ways it seems like they are looking for the same kind of content that Shockwave.com provides, but focused soley on Flash. That means games, animations and music files all in Flash. They already have some good content, and I am sure that the Flash community will provide them with even more great content to showcase. The site might not be Shockwave.com yet, but if they keep making it

Flash sites: Flashplayer.com Read More »

Flash blogs: JoshDura.com

2 Comments / flash, weblogs / By

JoshDura.com is (surprise surprise) Josh Dura’s weblog, Josh is know as a moderator at FlashKit.com, co-founder of the Flashcomponent.com website, and involved Flash community member. His blog will probably be filled with good news and projects from the Flash world. He already has some interesting sub-sites to the JoshDura.com domain, with open source Flash projects located at flash.joshdura.com and photos at photos.joshdura.com

Flash blogs: JoshDura.com Read More »

Flash blogs: Quasimondo

2 Comments / flash, weblogs / By

Found a new Flash blog today, its called Quasimondo. I haven’t gotten this confirmed yet, but the site seems to belong to Collin Croome [Update] The Quasimondo blog is actually run by Mario Klingemann of Coma2.com. Thats how it goes when guessing :-) There are some interesting projects on the site: Flash Photoshop EPS Parser with the source code for those that want to try it. Its slow, but it works. Take note of how you have to save the EPS file from Photoshop.. And the follow-up project: dot-couture.com which

Flash blogs: Quasimondo Read More »

Turn the music up

flash / By

Andre Michelle and David Rowald over at Extrajet.com has released the XJ Composer, its a Flash music application loosely based on Reason (According to David Burrows). XJ Composer shows off the power of the audio capabilities in Flash MX. The Flash app handles much like a drum computer with a synced synthesizer. It will soon have a community site for saving samples, tracks etc, at the moment there is no way of saving a track or using your own samples. So go ahead, make some noise – and trust me,

Turn the music up Read More »

Scroll to Top