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Data Protection Muppets
I’ve mentioned this topic on my blog before with regard to the Royal Bank of Scotland and Intelligent Finance but this time it was related to an insurance claim. The insurance company put me in contact...
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Banking Scams
Just now I got a spam email purporting to be from my bank. In fact, I get lots of these because I obviously have accounts with Barclays, NatWest, HSBC, HBOS, RBS, CitiBank, WellsFargo, Clydesdale, Caja...
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Are people really this gullible
I just got this in my email: Let your email come to you. With Yahoo! Mail Alerts, you’ll know the instant you get one. Account Alert Dear Valued Member, Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and...
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BBC repeating mindless nonsense
I’ve just read a report from the BBC that simply repeats some mindless drivel about SQL Injection Attacks from a spokesman for the US Department of Justice. According to the BBC: Edward Wilding, a...
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Follow up on what not to develop
Back in May I wrote about a substandard website I attempted to use in an article entitled “What not to Develop”. I also sent the hotel an email at the same time telling them of the failing of their...
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Tip of the Day #14: A Step to PCI Compliance
If you have a public facing website that accepts credit card payments from customers they you?ll be looking to become PCI compliant. This means you need to improve the security of your website to...
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If you really must do dynamic SQL…
I may have mentioned in previous posts and articles about SQL Injection Attacks that dynamic SQL (building SQL commands by concatenating strings together) is a source of failure in the security of a...
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Tip of the day: How to tell why your app couldn’t log on to SQL Server
When you get a log in failure on SQL Server the message you get back from SQL Server Management Studio, or in a .NET Exception is vague for security. They don’t want to give away too much information...
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Tip of the Day: Getting TFS to remember you each time you open Visual Studio
Because the TFS Server where I work is not on the domain, it will prompt you for credentials each time you log in (unless you’ve previously used the web access and checked the “Remember Me” option). If...
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aspnet_regiis “Could not load file or assembly ‘SimpleAuthentication.Core’ or...
I was recently following Jouni Heiknieme’s blog post on Encrypting connection strings in Windows Azure web applications when I stumbled across a problem. The issue was that I wasn’t encrypting the...
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