security

If you're a JavaScript developer at any level, then you have probably used the popular package manager NPM at some point in time....read more

If you own or run a website, then security should be near the top of the list in terms of daily priorities. You far too often hear stories o...read more

Before browsers had tabs, websites would often open new webpages in their own instances of the browser. You would eventually come to know th...read more

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has long been the go to method of transferring files on the internet. It's how you uploaded files to your share...read more

The principle of least privilege is a security concept that recommends that any user of the system be given the minimum levels of access ne...read more

Security leaders face strategic turmoil from a data protection standpoint as businesses increasingly require an ‘anytime, anywhere access...read more

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...read more

If there is one thing that a programmer knows, it is the term "bugs" when it comes to their code not functioning as intended. Maybe in your ...read more

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...read more

This year we didn't hear too much in the news about security breaches or stolen data, although undoubtedly those incidents continued to hap...read more

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 ...read more

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...read more

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...read more

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...read more

Security is getting more difficult to attain nowadays on the old interwebs, and for good reason. It's not about hackers getting more clever...read more

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...read more

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...read more

Captchas and reCaptchas are great inventions. They help keep spam out and help to verify that humans are on the interwebs and not mischievo...read more

.NET makes it pretty simple to work with data encryption with the Cryptography namespace. So there should be no reason to have plain text......read more

Just recently researchers published a study showing that over 29 million American health records were compromised between 2010 and 2013. Ma...read more

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...read more

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...read more