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Ruby Agent Security Vulnerability

9 pointsby meltzerjover 12 years ago

2 comments

Legionover 12 years ago
&#62; if SSL is enabled for the agent, all data would be encrypted and could not be viewed by an attacker.<p>Allow me to paraphrase Ghostbusters 2:<p>"Ray, if an external service you're connecting your app to asks if you want to encrypt the transfer, you say <i>YES</i>!"
normalocityover 12 years ago
DB username and password. Fuck - was pretty much waiting for something like this to happen. Just got one of these emails a few minutes ago myself. Luckily I was only using this for a toy app.