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Flash Fades as the Popularity of HTML5 Rises
Recently Adobe announced that it was stopping development of Flash for mobile devices. This decision was not a surprise since the Flash format has been losing support among companies such as Apple and Microsoft. In its place, the popularity of HTML5 has been growing, which now has universal support on all major mobile devices. And [...]
Are Your Data and Applications Secured in the Cloud?
A recent survey by the conducted by Ponemon Institute among enterprise security professionals revealed that a majority of participant regarded the state of their cloud server security management as either fair or poor. 42 percent of the respondents said they probably would not know if their applications or data had been exposed or tampered with. [...]
Are you taking Advantage of the Expansion in Mobile Usage?
Mobile usage is exploding. Currently, half of the world’s population of 6.8 billion people uses mobile devices. The trends are phenomenal: Adoption is accelerating as mobile devices become more affordable. The sales of mobile devices and tablets now outpace sales desk top and laptop PCs combined. Consumers are increasingly spending more time on their mobile [...]
Types of Windows Azure Storage
Windows Azure provides four types of storage: blobs, drives, tables and queues. Blobs Blobs are able to store large pieces of data including images, video, documents or code. They are stored in containers, which can hold any number of blobs. Blobs are referenced by a URL in this format: http(s):// <client-account-name>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob name> Alternately, blobs can [...]
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 [...]
