VPN's or Virtual Private Networks are not new by any means, but they are gaining more attention from the general public, particularly with t
Since Google became a verb, it has been no secret that they rely heavily on capturing user data, both to serve you better content and to se
This year we didn't hear too much in the news about security breaches or stolen data, although undoubtedly those incidents continued to hap
While in the past it seemed like you could do just fine without the hassle of setting up an SSL certificate, it seems that as of late that
If keeping bots away is your thing, then using Google's reCAPTCHA is a must. And while it can be tedious to click on 20 images of cars in o
And not at all in a cool way unfortunately. But in a more "that's kind of annoying..." way. For the most part, bots roam the interwebs hour
If you've just finished watching Snowden, then please don't spoil it for me. Although I think I know how it ends. Security is a hot topic r
Security is getting more difficult to attain nowadays on the old interwebs, and for good reason. It's not about hackers getting more clever
I've always been a proponent of having just the most secure site that you can possibly make. And as such, I always take precautions to make
It is no surprise that websites nowadays track your every move. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc etc. The list goes on and on and for t
Captchas and reCaptchas are great inventions. They help keep spam out and help to verify that humans are on the interwebs and not mischievo
.NET makes it pretty simple to work with data encryption with the Cryptography namespace. So there should be no reason to have plain text p
Just recently researchers published a study showing that over 29 million American health records were compromised between 2010 and 2013. Ma
In my previous post I wrote about a few steps that you can take to better secure your website. One of those steps, probably the most import
Security is one of those things that are normally saved for last or ignored completely when working on a website nowadays. As most people h