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URL rewriting can help thwart Web app attacks

A Microsoft Web application security specialist is suggesting an offbeat defense-in-depth strategy to protect Web sites and applications from cross-site scripting XSS and cross-site request forgery XSRF attacks. According to Bryan Sullivan, security program manager for Redmond's Security Development Lifecycle team, Web developers should consider URL Rewriting...

Tags: Hyperlink, Attacker, Vulnerability, XSS, Web Application, Attack, Microsoft Web Application Security Specialist, Bryan Sullivan, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-27

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TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7A massive success for Windows 7!"On July 20, TechRepublic asked its pool of U.S. IT leaders if they planned to begin Windows 7 deployments by the end of 2010. The jury, made up of the first 12 respondents from the 90-member group, was...

Tags: Operating systems, SMB customer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons

How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemonsWhen you're locked in to a proprietary...solution you have no where else to go. It's just a matter of when do you break the cycle. With the killing of XP, I would say this would be a great time.If you upgrade...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista lemon, Microsoft Corp., lemon, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

More details on the Pwn2Own Flash flaw that won the Vista machine

More details on the Pwn2Own Flash flaw that won the Vista machineOr should we blame MicrosoftFor their inability to push DEP sooner and get more of a response out developers sooner and breaking applications that have been coded wrongly for years.That would be the ABMer's excuse anyway.NBMer would say that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, SECURITY, Pwn2Own Flash, Pwn2Own Flash flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista, data execution prevention, Vista Machine, Java, flaw, Nate, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Windows Live Alerts (Screen Shots: What Windows Live Is (and Isn't))

Windows Live Alerts (Screen Shots: What Windows Live Is (and Isn't))IBM's Live App Suite Supports Apple/LinuxUnlike the offering from Microsoft, another desperate attempt to lock in their customers wanting the greater flexibility and reduced cost of live applications.http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Infotech/Hardware/IBM_aims_to_lower_cost_of_using_Linux_Apple_PCs/articleshow/1594892.cmsOnly with Microsoft they charge you to be locked in to...

Tags: Web browsers, Looks like Firefox, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Firefox 3, Microsoft Corp., thumbnail, Web, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

Hosted Office? Been there, done that, no thanks!

Hosted Office? Been there, done that, no thanks!Private hosted office does workWithin an enterprise, a hosted office paradign can work very effectively. I work in a UNIX support group and my workstation is running Linux. I use an ICAClient to connect to a farm of Windows servers that...

Tags: Hosted Office, server, Microsoft Office, environment

Discussion threads 2005-10-25

RSS: another poor tech name going mainstream

RSS: another poor tech name going mainstreamIf I knew RSS meant subscribe! I would've use it beforeWhat's in a word? Normal people can understand from 300 to 700 words, if you want to put a new word in their array of known words, you have to educate them...

Tags: Making RSS, RSS, PCMCIA

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

IBM set to take supercomputing crown

IBM set to take supercomputing crownWHAT OS IS RUNNING ON THE IBM MACHINE?Just curious....I know it's not Microsuck.Quadrillion !!!!!!This is the first time i have ever seen the word "quadrillion" used with a straight face in print. What next? a billion Jillian quintillion flops a second?Sick of Linux users big...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, supercomputing, Linux, operating system, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-11-05