A Simple Passphrase Generator – Latest ASP Alliance Article Published
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published: A Simple Passphrase Generator Passphrases have been receiving more and more attention as part of a strong security policy. When building secure...
View ArticleKnow When To Quit
Today’s NewsFactor Network showed up in my inbox, and the lead story was: ———————————————————— 1. E-Mail Authentication: Holy Grail or Lost Cause? ———————————————————— Originally, e-mail was never...
View ArticleProtecting Files in Shared Hosting Environment
In a previous post (http://aspadvice.com/blogs/rjdudley/archive/2005/05/21/2595.aspx), I showed one way to protect files from direct download by configuring IIS. In a shared hosting environment, this...
View ArticleRemote Web Administration Tool
Recently, a question came up in the ASP.NET security forums about the lack of a remote membership/role configuration tool in ASP.NET 2.0. Being able to remotely manage users is important in pretty...
View ArticleFormShield for .NET 2.0 Released
Kevin Gearing of DotNetFreak has released an updated CAPTCHA control for .NET. Not only compiled against the latest version, there are a lot of new features, too: Version 2 of FormShield builds on the...
View ArticleNew from the ACE Team: XSS Detect
The ACE Team (Application Consulting and Engineering) has released a beta version of their tool to scan managed code and detect potential vulnerabilities to cross-site scripting. XSSDetect runs as a...
View ArticleDell Vostro: Not Totally Free of Crapware
One of Dell’s selling points for its new Vostro line is a lack of trial-ware. In fact, Dell’s website makes the following claim on the Vostro homepage: No trialware.Customers said they hated...
View ArticleNew Sophisticated SQL Injection Attack
Although this attack targets websites powered by Microsoft SQL Server, databases such as Oracle are also vulnerable to this attack. The attacks “are a very sophisticated form of SQL injection,” Qualys...
View ArticleHackers focus efforts on Firefox, Safari
The Internet Explorer team should be proud of themselves this week: Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel...
View ArticleAn Updated Simple Passphrase Generator
(Note: The original version of this work is published at http://aspalliance.com/703_A_Simple_Passphrase_Generator.all, this is a long overdue update) Just about 9 years ago I was building a...
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