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Connection Allowlist is a new browser security mechanism that lets a document declare, up front, the exact set of destinations it's permitted to open network connections to. Anything not on the list is blocked by the browser before the connection leaves the machine. It's currently a
First reported Jul 08, 2026 16:11 UTCOpen evidence recordWe’ve open-sourced dbsc-php, a small PHP library that makes it easier to deploy Device Bound Session Credentials and turn stolen session cookies into something far less useful. It's MIT-licensed, pure-PHP, and available on Packagist now!What is DBSC?If you'd
First reported Jun 08, 2026 14:00 UTCOpen evidence recordDevice Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is Chrome's answer to session cookie theft, usually by InfoStealer malware. Instead of a cookie being a bearer token that works anywhere it's pasted, DBSC binds the session to a private key that lives in your device's hardware and
First reported Aug 11, 2026 14:25 UTCOpen evidence recordThis week, I published a blog post about Device Bound Session Credentials, a new technology that will significantly hamper the efforts of Infostealers and reduce the damage caused by stolen cookies. Today, we're announcing the beta of DBSC at Report URI!Device Bound Session CredentialsYou should definitely
First reported Jun 05, 2026 14:22 UTCOpen evidence recordThis is part two of the ten-year anniversary Top 1 Million Analysis. Part one covered the broad state of the web — HTTPS, the security headers, cookies, email and DNS hygiene. This part is the bit I've been most excited to write: a focused look at the
First reported Jul 01, 2026 11:57 UTCOpen evidence recordA stolen session cookie can be vastly more powerful than a stolen password. The attacker doesn’t need to phish the user, bypass MFA, or defeat their passkey; they simply replay the cookie and step straight into a fully authenticated session. That’s why info-stealers love browser
First reported Jun 02, 2026 10:59 UTCOpen evidence recordEvery other web platform feature I've ever written about, I've been able to test in some easy way. Open DevTools, type the name of the thing, see if it's there. Device Bound Session Credentials doesn't work like that: there is no way
First reported Aug 21, 2026 13:42 UTCOpen evidence recordBack in 2017, Troy Hunt and I built a little website called whynohttps.com. The idea was simple: take the most popular sites on the internet, check which ones still weren't redirecting visitors to HTTPS, and put the laggards on a list for everyone to see. No lecture,
First reported Jun 22, 2026 13:22 UTCOpen evidence recordA single support ticket became the front door to 275 million student records. The Canvas breach shows how quickly untrusted user content can become a serious security incident when it is rendered inside privileged internal tooling. This was not an exotic attack chain; it was stored XSS, over-scoped access,
First reported Jun 15, 2026 12:21 UTCOpen evidence recordWe shipped Device Bound Session Credentials at Report URI, open-sourced the server-side implementation, and then discovered a long list of things the specification doesn't prepare you for.Some caused random logouts. One could deadlock a browser tab indefinitely. Two silently turned a device-bound session back
First reported Aug 10, 2026 16:06 UTCOpen evidence recordPasskeys are the best thing to happen to web authentication in years, but a passkey ceremony is only as secure as the stack enforcing it. The browser, the relying party, the authenticator, and any extension sitting between them all need to honour the same rules.While investigating WebAuthn behaviour, I
First reported May 21, 2026 14:40 UTCOpen evidence recordIt's been a long time since the last one of these! The previous Top 1 Million Analysis was way back in June 2022, and a lot has happened since then. But there's a much bigger reason to dust off the crawler and publish another report: this
First reported Jun 29, 2026 13:40 UTCOpen evidence recordOn 27 August 2026, Manchester Airports Group told customers that "an unauthorised third party" had stolen their data. Car park bookings, lounge bookings, Fast Track purchases for airport security and passport control, along with airport WiFi sign-ups across Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands. Roughly 8.8 million
First reported Sep 07, 2026 09:13 UTCOpen evidence recordI recently went on an epic road trip around Europe, covering 1,645 miles (2,647 km), and we took in some amazing sights and locations. As a tech geek, I was worried about my connectivity on the trip, so before we set off, I came up with a plan!
First reported Aug 24, 2026 13:50 UTCOpen evidence recordEvery now and then I go digging through Report URI's Threat Intelligence data feeds, looking for domains that show up in CSP reports where they really shouldn't. Last week one jumped out at me: netdna-ssl.com. If you've been around the WordPress world
First reported Jun 24, 2026 13:11 UTCOpen evidence recordA filename, label, or report mention alone does not establish maliciousness. Observation dates describe cited sources; collection dates describe this local metadata catalog. No malware samples are stored, fetched, or executed by these pages.