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Giant Geek Communications Scott Fredrickson Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Pages About Giant Geek Communications ActiveCampaign Form Test Cookie Policy Gradle dependency versions plugin Developers often have a lot on their plates, maintaining current version of their library dependencies often takes a back seat to deliverables. Far too often, the only time a library is updated is when it becomes a problem, either as a vulnerability or as a headache that prevents other updates. Monitoring repositories and email lists can also be problematic. To simplify some of the manual effort that often goes into this, use of build plugins can help. With them, each build, either on the developer desktop or as part of a CI (Continuous Integration) pipeline, can provide feedback to any developer that looks at the output. Adding to a Gradle project only takes a few small changes: In build.gradle: plugins { id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.51.0' } Then to invoke you can use: ./gradlew dependencyUpdates To simplify for use with make, add to an existing step like ‘test’ in a Makefile like: .PHONY: test test: clean ./ gradlew test dependencyUpdates REFERENCES: https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.github.ben-manes.versions Posted on January 28, 2024 January 29, 2024 Categories WebStandards , Work Tags build , gradle , java , libraries , plugin , version Leave a comment on Gradle dependency versions plugin Clear-Site-Data HTTP Header In an effort to improve security on the client-side modern browsers have introduced a means to allow for web applications request a client to remove persisted data. Of course, not supported in any version of MSIE or Safari, but all modern browsers Chrome 61+, Edge 79+, Firefox 63+ support. This approach can be useful at logoff or session invalidation to remove data from the client-side, particularly in cases of persistent or reflected XSS. Clear-Site-Data: cookies” Clear-Site-Data: cache”, cookies”, storage”, executionContexts” REFERENCES: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Clear-Site-Data https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-clear-site-data/#header https://www.w3.org/TR/clear-site-data/ https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4713262029471744 Posted on November 23, 2021 November 24, 2021 Categories MSIE bugs , Safari bugs , WebStandards , Work Tags browser , cache , clear , client , cookies , header , http , invalidate , logoff , persist , remove , security , server , sesssion , storage Leave a comment on Clear-Site-Data HTTP Header Global Privacy Control (GPC) – Sec-GPC HTTP Header – /.well-known/gpc.json file GPC is the latest attempt at allowing customers to specify how their browsing data is to be shared online, the previous attempt referred to as DNT was a relative failure. Like with DNT, once the user specifies their preference the browser adds an additional HTTP request header: Sec-GPC: 1 This can be checked with javascript on the page with the following const gpcValue = navigator.globalPrivacyControl Additionally, websites can define that they respect the GPC request by posting a file in a file /.well-known/gpc.json Content-Type: application/json { "gpc": true, "version": 1, "lastUpdate": "2021-11-01" } Examples: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.well-known/gpc.json https://well-known.dev/.well-known/gpc.json https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/.well-known/gpc.json https://www.washingtonpost.com/.well-known/gpc.json https://brave.com/.well-known/gpc.json GPC is currently implemented by default in: Brave = https://spreadprivacy.com/global-privacy-control-enabled-by-default/ In Firefox, you currently have to enable it manually: about:config globalprivacycontrol boolean true REFERENCES: https://globalprivacycontrol.github.io/gpc-spec/ https://globalprivacycontrol.org/ https://well-known.dev/resources/gpc/ https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/10/28/implementing-global-privacy-control/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/global-privacy-control-firefox/ Posted on November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 Categories WebStandards , Work Tags browser , dnt , GPC , header , http , privacy , security , sharing Leave a comment on Global Privacy Control (GPC) – Sec-GPC HTTP Header – /.well-known/gpc.json file security.txt files Similar to robots.txt and humans.txt is a recent addition of a security.txt file. This is currently a draft proposal to provide a standardized way to define security policies for researchers. This is useful for bug bounty and disclosure programs. Government agencies were tasked to add these back in 2019, but COVID-19 likely delayed implementation and rollout. This is usually applied in the root of a website at /.well-known/security.txt , but can also be immediately in the root at /security.txt . Personally, I put mine in /.well-known/ and put a redirect at the root to simplify maintenance. For additional security, you can optionally sign the policy with PGP. Details: https://securitytxt.org/ https://github.com/securitytxt/security-txt https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-foudil-securitytxt-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security.txt https://www.cisa.gov/blog/2020/09/02/improving-vulnerability-disclosure-together-officially I did some searching around the web and found some examples (linked below): File in the root path: https://edoverflow.com/security.txt https://www.facebook.com/security.txt https://bugcrowd.com//security.txt File in the preferred /.well-known path: https://edoverflow.com/.well-known/security.txt https://www.facebook.com/.well-known/security.txt https://bugcrowd.com/.well-known/security.txt https://defcon.org/.well-known/security.txt https://www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt https://www.bbc.com/.well-known/security.txt...