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Novel by Eric Van Lustbader and Robert Ludlum I like all Robert Ludlum’s novels including those which are written by Evan Lastbadder. To me his novels have taken fiction to the next level. During my way back to Hyderabad from my last summer trip to hometown I bought paperback version of “The Bourne Betryal”. This novel was full of Lastbadder’s style of writing than Robert Ludlum’s one.  I took almost 6 months to complete it. This novel has something different to offer actually. Plot is exciting but the story is not very accelerating. Jason bourn and Martin Lindros, When martin Lindros decided to come back in the field operations with the aim to destroy Fadi and When Martin is out the track , Jason is the only help possible in the situation. Story takes you through various struggle of Jason to bring Martin back home. There are few things where author has not even paid any attention for example how does an ordinary Pakistani Waiter will have that much of information   Towards the e

In application security world blacklisting and whitelisting validations are very popular. This basically indicates what should be allowed and what shouldn’t be allowed. I was thinking about some of the web applications deployment structure and paying attention on the way various files are packaged and deployed. I found one interesting thing about web assets like CSS, Images and fonts , java scripts. When we host the web assets, URLs that actually provide web assets are actually not protected up to the mark. Let’s say  you have an application which has URL something like this http://someapplicationname/somecontext/myaccount when you access the above mentioned URL, application may redirect you to login page, Whole idea is to force user to authenticate him/herself and create a secure session. Once the session is established you can access and the account page and do whatever you want to do. But web asset URLs are not protected.   http://someapplicationname/somecontext/js/log