Posted by Johan Cyprich on 06 May 2008 | Tagged as: Applications, Security
In today’s world, attacks on web sites by hackers are common. We need to take precautions to prevent the security in our web sites from being compromised. There isn’t any built-in utility for WordPress to test security, but there is a plugin by Michael Torbert that can be installed for this purpose.
WP Security Scan examines [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Security
Hack into a computer, and you get to keep it. This was the challenge at CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 last March 26-28. There were three computers that were presented for this contest:
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10
Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1
MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2
The purpose of this contest was to reveal possible vulnerabilities in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Security, Tech Tips
Managing users is essential when running a forum. In spite of phpBB’s many strengths, it is lacking in this area. Deleting a user in the administration panel is quite an involved task and I normally do this through the backend by directly modifying the phpbb_users table in the MySQL database.
While this is not the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Programming, Security
PHP has to be one of the easiest programming languages to learn for building dynamic web sites. In less than a week of study, you can be adding PHP code to your web sites and saving form data to a database instead of having it e-mailed to you. The only other language that is just [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 21 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Security
“You could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services … and your network infrastructure could still remain vulnerable to old fashioned manipulation. … If your goal is to protect your network, you can not rely on technology alone.”
Kevin Mitnick, “My First RSA Conference”
A common perception of a hacker is that of an individual who [...]
