By 2015, HTTPS Will Be Everywhere
Public WiFi connections are often unsecured, leaving their connections open to being hijacked or “sniffed” by malicious people. To protect users from data and privacy loss due to insecure and […]
Tag Archives: Security
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 […]
PayPal "cart upload" – much smoother than "Add to cart"
We have just finished some custom PayPal integration for Eaton Square Concerts (ESC). On the ESC booking page, you can now select all the tickets you want before heading to […]
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 […]
Microsoft Application Blocks
Microsoft Application Blocks form a collection of ready-built ‘clumps’ of code which solve common problems such as security management, data access, logging, etc. They are the tangible result of the […]
