Verified by Visa Confirmed Dangerous
New research from the University of Cambridge supports the view that Verified by Visa is deeply flawed and unsafe. I first came across this mess of an implementation a while […]
Category Archives: Security
How to encrypt passwords in the Tomcat server.xml file
By default, Tomcat stores passwords in server.xml in clear text, which can lead to obvious security lapses. The easiest way to mitigate against user account compromise is to use a […]
Grey Matter Workout
I spent part of today scratching my head and dredging up long-forgotten details of the .Net Framework and C# over at BrainBench.com – to my relief, I didn’t disgrace myself: […]
ACCU Conference 2006
I went to the ACCU Spring Conference 2006 last week. There were some interesting sessions, as usual. XSLT2 and XPath2 Version 1 of XSLT and XPath were fairly limited in […]
Secunia
Secunia is an excellent site, listing outstanding and historic vulns for all major (and many minor) software products. For exmaple, compare security flaws for DotNetNuke with the flaws for PHP-Nuke. […]
