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The Gameshow
Congratulations! You three contestants have made it to the final round of… The Greatest Gameshow On Earth ! The crowd screams wild in anticipation and the world watches on simultaneous webcasts and TVs as we approach the conclusion of our show.. Across from you on the stage, on a large screen, you will notice a…
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Aldi Stores Credit Card Fraud
A recent article I came across from my Security Focus newsletter inspired my latest post regarding the recent Aldi Credit Card fraud that occurred across 31 states. (See entire article below) To quote the article’s author: “It looks like this was the work of a network of criminals who went into stores and somehow distracted…
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Facebook is down!
As of approx. October 6, 12:30 AM EST GMT -5 Facebook HTTP services seemed to have gone down. Ping tests were successful during this time, however, attempts to load the website resulted in timeouts. More updates tomorrow morning after some official announcements have been made. My initial speculation is botnet and/or DoS attack but this…
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Using jQuery and ScriptManager to update dynamic page elements
I recently came across a situation where an element on the page was not updating dynamically after post backs. It was quick and easy to add an update panel and the necessary logic to use the built in asp .Net ajax callbacks. I simply added an update panel around the code that needed to be…
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Get Current Page Name in ASP .NET
The code snippet below is a quick, easy to use function which allows you to get the current active page in an asp .net website/application. There are similar functions for getting header information about a page, however, after some research I found the direct info I was looking for was much easier to retrieve using…
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