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How Mobile Friendly is Your Site?
A recent survey of the top 100 commercial retail sites looked at the kinds of pages offered to smart phone users found that there was only a one in five chance of serving them mobile content. What Brian Klais of Pure Oxygen Labs found was that there is growing invisible web of mobile content that’s [...]
Shouldn’t Your Business Have a Mobile Strategy?
For today’s competitive business environment it is simply not enough to have a web presence. If your business is going to keep up with the latest changes in consumer behavior and mobile technologies then it must have a mobile strategy. Why? Because today’s mobile users are very savvy and interactively engaged through mobile devices. Plus, [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Preventing Unvalidated Redirects & Forwards
The last of the top ten security threats facing web sites and apps today are unvalidated redirects and forwards. These can happen when an intruder can cause a web application to redirect visitors to a URL of his choosing. Often, such attacks are for the purpose of tricking the user to disclose some private information [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Preventing Insecure Cryptographic Storage
Within most web applications there is a need to store sensitive data such as passwords, credit cards, account records and other confidential information by encryption in files or databases. Even though encryption is no longer difficult to implement, yet often developers make mistakes concerning what items are encrypted and in how encryption is applied in [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Avoiding Insecure Direct Object References
The fourth most common type of attack against web sites and applications is allowing objects (such as database records, files or links) to be access directly without determining the requester’s right to retrieve the content. These are known as Insecure Direct Object References. One form of exploit under this category, known as open redirect and [...]
IPv6 Bits & Pieces
Discover GoGoNet, a Social Network devoted to IPv6 If the thought of moving to IPv6 seem overwhelming and you are wondering where to find resources and assistance then GoGoNet is the place to turn to. GoGoNet, which is hosted by gogo6, is a community of professionals interested in facilitating the move to IPv6 by providing [...]
