You always use Gmail. A fake certificate for Gmail was issued on 15th March. What does this mean for you? Are you protected against such kinds of attacks?
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Tech Terminology Demystified – OCSP
The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate.
New Mass SQL Injection Attack
A new mass injection attack has infected over 28,000 pages and even made its way to iTunes according to security researchers from Websense.
Load Testing ASP.NET Web Applications using Jmeter
People do not like slow responses on web sites. It just drives them away. If you would like to know how fast/slow your web site is when 100 or 1000 users access it, what you are attempting to is labelled ‘load testing’. There are many commercial and free tools that do the job for web applications running on Java, ASP.NET, PHP etc. We will specifically look at testing ASP.NET applications using the open source tool called Jmeter.
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Tech Terminology Demystified – Pharming
Pharming is yet another way hackers attempt to manipulate users on the Internet. While phishing attempts to capture personal information by getting users to visit a fake website, pharming redirects users to false websites without them even knowing it.
Threats of Mobile Apps
Employees are bringing smartphones into the office in greater numbers and they expect them to connect to the company network, but experts say IT security professionals are hard pressed to ensure the devices don’t pose an additional data leakage risk.
Validating user data in Web Apps
Web applications are an easy target for script kiddies and black hats alike. Web applications also have some form of access to the organization’s data. It is imperative that protection mechanisms be put in place against attempts to break into web applications.
Tech Terminology Demystified – HTML5
HTML5 is the latest version of HTML, currently under development. HTML5 has some really amazing features that we will explore in this article. The first draft of HTML5 was released in 2008 and major browsers are beginning to incorporate HTML5 features. The final version of the standard is not yet released (and not expected to be released any time soon).
Secure your AIX Server
Server hardening is one of the first things that should be looked into when securing any information infrastructure.