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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...

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Know 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...

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Protecting 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...

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Remote 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...

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FormShield 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...

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New 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...

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Dell 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...

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New 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...

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Hackers 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...

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An 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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