Security Incidents

issue regarding authentication from the coinbase using websocket(WS) in the vb6

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Websocket Authentication Failure on Coinbase Sandbox: Floating-Point Timestamp Issue Summary A VB6 client experienced an “Authentication Failed” error when connecting to Coinbase’s sandbox WebSocket. The connection succeeded, but authentication failed due to an unexpected timestamp format in the subscription message, violating Coinbase’s API requirements. Root Cause Coinbase’s authentication requires integer timestamps (whole seconds) in request … Read more

Why can’t an iframe be used to selectively display only specific elements (e.g., titles) from a cross-origin HTML page using HTML/CSS alone?

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# Why can’t an iframe selectively display specific elements (like titles) from a cross-origin page with HTML/CSS alone? ## Summary * * User attempted to embed a cross-origin webpage via `<iframe>` into a fixed container while hiding non-title content using HTML/CSS only * Allowed constraints: Only HTML, CSS, and iframe elements * Disallowed constraints: JavaScript, … Read more

site hosts and contact forms

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Technical Postmortem: Analysis of Limited Contact Form Support in Web Hosting Services Summary Web hosts frequently offer limited native contact form solutions despite their ubiquity Insufficient form functionality stems from security, cost, and architectural constraints Customers experience friction between convenience and customization needs Industry alternatives favor third-party integrations over native implementations Root Cause Technical constraints … Read more