Posts Tagged “security”
Earlier today Jeff Atwood tweeted: you should *really* be scared if your passwords are all lowercase. 12 chars in 75 days on my box.. He was referring to his post on speed hashing where a video card GPU is used to calculate the hash of any given text. Compared to a computer CPU it does [...]
This weekend will go down in history. It’s the first time I’ve been seriously sick in well over 5 years. A bug infected my son on Wednesday, but he got over it quickly enough. Then the same bug hit my wife and I on Sunday morning and we’re just getting over it now. Odd that [...]
Andrew van der Stock’s criticism of PHP’s security model. What security? Global request arrays go some way to making applications safer but there are obscure functions and settings which can trip up developers. (via) PHP Optimization Tricks from Ilia Alshanetsky has one gem I didn’t know about – the ctype extension. It’s somewhat limited but [...]
John Lim lists some of the requirements for an “enterprise” financial application. I’ve never gone to the lengths John has to pass such an audit but I can imagine it wasn’t easy!
Doubtful it’ll happen.. Microsoft’s latest security lapse with its Passport information service could trigger a $2.2 trillion fine on the company courtesy of the US government. Microsoft on Thursday admitted that a flaw in the password reset tool of its Passport service could compromise the information stored on all 200 million users. It scampered to [...]
