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If you’ve ever looked at a radar image of an oncoming storm (something we haven’t exactly seen a lot of lately in the South), you know that the deep reds and purples can be somewhat fearsome because they carry significant potential for damage. The radar method of displaying information is called a “heatmap”. We wondered – what if there was a way to apply a heatmap of user activity to your website? Well, that’s something we developers and programmers are working on – a heatmap... Continue Reading
In my last blog, I gave some general front end security guidelines for developers. Today, I’m going to focus on what you can do as a user can do to increase your online security. As a user, it is all about passwords.
I like starting out at Wikipedia since they have a really good article on password strength. I would consider this the grandfather of all password policies since most policies you encounter on sites will be a watered down version of this. After looking over a few of the... Continue Reading
In this day and age passwords are everywhere. Email, ATMs, banks, facebook, blogs; they all have them and unfortunately they are all under attack. Passwords, and in a larger sense authentication, has been around for a long time. They can be traced back to ancient guards using passwords to determine who was allowed to pass into protected areas of a city. We still use them in this exact same manner today. With such a long history of use, passwords and breaking them have come a long way.
Today, developers... Continue Reading
I recently had to setup some rewrite rules for a website using Apache’s mod_rewrite. Most of our sites are on shared servers so I can just upload that .htaccess file and be done, but every now and then I’m on a new dedicated server where some things just aren’t setup correctly. I’m not really a server person since I mostly deal with php and javascript, so when I have to delve into server configuration I always feel uneasy. I started out by googling “troubleshoot... Continue Reading
