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Website Security – Common Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Website Security

Everyday, stories hit the news regarding websites which have been taken down by hackers. How does a person gain access to a website one might ask? What is the hackers aim in compromising a website? It is surprisingly easy to find vulnerable websites and is therefore extremely important for website developers to know of the common vulnerabilities and coding errors which create these vulnerabilities in order to prevent them. This post aims at equiping the general web developer with the knowledge of various hacking techniques and methodologies, as well as the mind of the hackers themselves.

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Best Internet Security Suite?

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Death by Computer

Death by Computer

The marathon running machine I call my laptop has recently decided it would rather walk than run. In laymans terms, it slows down to an almost unusable state. It gets so bad it cant even restart itself, complaining that it does not have enough resources. This prompted me to investigate in PC tuning solutions and from previous experience, I re-installed and completely tweaked my PC for best performance using Auslogics Speed Boost. Did it help? No. Did it make my Windows 7 look atrocious? Yes.

That was to be expected however so I am in no way rebuking Speed Boost. It’s actually an extremely useful application and I recommend you try it out. Anyway, thats not the end of my story because as of yet, what I’ve said has nothing to do with the topic. As my computer still decided to take a nap while it was awake, I realized this is not a matter of fragmented disks or overabundance of internet cookies and cache. I started investigating the applications I was using. Apparently FireFox 3.6 has a memory leak which can cause the exact same results that I was experiencing. I swapped to Google Chrome. Did it help? No. Final thought, it must be some sort of virus! (more…)

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