Blog
Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Series
.NET Core Web API
36
Angular
31
JavaScript Basics
19
JavaScript Intermediate
18
JavaScript Advanced
16
TypeScript Basics
14
TypeScript Intermediate
14
TypeScript Advanced
12
Entity Framework Core
28
Dapper
16
Git & GitHub
29
Web Security (OWASP Top 10)
21
LLM Fundamentals
20
C# Fundamentals
20
Object-Oriented Programming in C#
16
C# Collections and Generics
11
LINQ
17
Asynchronous Programming in C#
17
Advanced C#
14
C# Versions
6
Security
PART 13
OWASP A07: Authentication Failures (2) — Cookie Flags, JWT Validation and CSRF
We look at how identity is carried on every request after login. We set cookie flags and the __Host- prefix explicitly, explain the session fixation risk, validate issuer, audience, lifetime, signature and algorithm in JwtBearer, measure the effect of ClockSkew on an expired token second by second, and show how antiforgery and SameSite work together against CSRF.
6 Nov 2026
10 min
8
Frontend
PART 15
JavaScript Web Storage and Cookies: localStorage, sessionStorage and document.cookie
We cover localStorage vs sessionStorage, storing objects with JSON, the cross-tab storage event, quota and security limits, cookie attributes through document.cookie, and why HttpOnly cookies stay invisible.
3 Nov 2026
9 min
23