‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book "Spam Nation," was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to different names. This allows a developer to reuse the same action logic, but provide different results based on interceptors. When an action is invoked, Webwork will typically call its...

SQL injection in DefaultReferralManager

In confluence-core/confluence/src/java/com/atlassian/confluence/links/DefaultReferralManager.java the DefaultReferralManager class the deleteReferrersWithPrefix method is vulnerable to sql injection through the user controlled 'prefix' parameter. It is possible to exploit this issue as an Admin...