Sunday, December 21, 2008

Forget about OWASP, go for Webkin Application Security!



So my daughter received an early Christmas present, a Webkins Clydesdale horse, and when I registered this "adopted" pet (as an adoptive parent, I'm always find stuff like this mildly offensive) I was shocked to see the number of disclaimers, guidance on passwords security, protecting your secret code, etc. during the initial registration far exceeds many security products and public web portals, online banking sites, etc.

And most effective was the animated goose (with glasses propped down on her nose) scolding you about the dangers of a weak password or sharing your secret code.

Of course coming up with the squid proxy whitelist was sort of painful because they use a lot hardcoded IP address in their app like below:

1229885588.050 117 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 1081 GET http://www.webkinz.com/XML/InstanceFactory/InstanceFactoryData.xml? - DIRECT/66.114.49.27 text/xml
1229885588.056 139 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 2406 GET http://www.webkinz.com/XML/L10N/TransList.xml? - DIRECT/66.114.49.27 text/xml
1229885615.945 136 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 851 GET http://www.webkinz.com/XML/WEBSTAT/call_config.xml? - DIRECT/66.114.49.27 text/xml
1229885615.977 953 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 6437 GET http://www.webkinz.com/XML/vnum_API.xml? - DIRECT/66.114.49.27 text/xml
1229885616.007 177 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 1713 POST http://66.48.69.99/sindex.php - DIRECT/66.48.69.99 text/xml
1229885617.630 101 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 359 POST http://66.48.69.99/getdate.php? - DIRECT/66.48.69.99 text/html
1229885617.647 116 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 672 POST http://66.48.69.99/sindex.php - DIRECT/66.48.69.99 text/xml
1229885617.656 136 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 374 POST http://66.48.69.123/sindex.php - DIRECT/66.48.69.123 text/xml
1229885617.902 122 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/200 470 POST http://66.48.69.123/sindex.php - DIRECT/66.48.69.123 text/plain
1229885617.956 175 192.168.10.103 TCP_MISS/404 630 GET http://66.48.69.104/DAS/2008_12_21.xml? - DIRECT/66.48.69.104 text/html

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