security
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Are we a Corporatocracy?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/09/google-microsoft-facebook-others-form-reform-government-surveillance-coalition/3914697/ Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy Continue reading
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mssql aes function encrypt decrypt in microsoft sql
Simple symmetric encryption in MSSQL. Copied from MS references below: References: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb669072.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179331.aspx Continue reading
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Create Custom and Self Signed SSL Certificate in IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003)
Single domain Ex. http://www.ronniediaz.com Note: Foremost, in order to access your site over HTTPS, the HTTP SSL Service will need to be running. This service binds to port 443 and filters HTTP traffic to IIS. Relatively easy to do in… Continue reading
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Encryption 101 and Security for the Paranoid
Modern day television, cinemas and news have created a big hype around security, especially computer security, usually without any good explanation. I’m not going to tell you that hype is false, there is definitely a growing need to be careful… Continue reading
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Quick .Net Encryption Reference
The code below represents a very basic .NET encryption class which has been tested and should work in your application – simply plug and play. 🙂 Contains two static methods that can be called without needing to instantiate the class.… Continue reading
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IIS Application Pool
A great many documents, blogs and references exist on IIS which cover it comprehensively. This article simply serves to discuss one aspect – the application pool. When configuring IIS in an environment that will contain many websites, there are a… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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