Security

05 Mar

Block an Entire Country by IP

Posted by Georg in Security

Some web sites need to be so interconnected. Do me a Facebook bridge, and a Flickr one, and of course don't forget the Twitter. Umm, look left, see that grey bar, I'm a candidate myself to all this social buzz, oh... Google Buzz, get it on the list as well.

So we want to get our sites as much exposed as possible. Good thing is that potential socionet followers will help up spread the word about out web deeds and thus give some sense to all this agitation in front of our laptops.

03 Mar

Securing Web Applications in Your Company: Alternative OS, PDF Readers and Google Docs (Part 1)

Posted by Georg in Security

Web apps are not web sites. A site is an informative place (or "site"), publicly accessible on the internet, that provides info about your business, staff, locations, offers and so on. A web app is less public, if at all, and provides core functionality for the business processes of your company, amongst your staff and/or between your staff and clients. An unsecured web site may result in defaced pages and a bit of shame, because it is supposed the web site is not storing sensitive data, since its purpose is to make them public in the first place.

How about an insecure web app? Credit card numbers of your buyers, private data of your partners and contacts, sensitive inside documents, logins and PASSWORDS!, bank account data, trade secrets, the list of dreads keeps growing...

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