Tag:Computer network security
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Businessweek Infographic Illustrates The Pounding We Took In 2011
Evan Applegate put together a great & simple infographic for Businessweek that illustrates the number and size of 2011 data breaches pretty…
Three Resolutions For Web Developers
I'm on a " three things " motif for 2012, as it's really difficult for most folks to focus on more than three core elements well. This is especially true for web developers as they have so much to contend with on a daily basis, whether it…
Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X scene. If there were just three…
Herding [Fire]sheep
By now, many non-IT and non-Security folk have heard of Firesheep , a tool written by @codebutler which allows anyone using Firefox on unprotected networks to capture and hjijack active sessions to popular social media sites (and other web…
"Web Development Is Dangerous"
Those were the words that greeted me within five minutes of checking out the Flask microframework for Python web applications. I feel compelled to inline those four, short…
Quick Hits :: 2011-01-07
Interesting points/counterpoints on the efficacy of Node.js being tied so closely to the V8 javascript engine: NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8 [bruno fernandez-ruiz] On Bruno’s Concern About the Current Coupling of node.js and V8 [jason @…