The Four Most Common VPN Protocols Explained and Compared
When you hear about a massive data breach in the news, it usually involves a large company that has been targeted by cybercriminals. But …
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Explained: like-farming
Like-farming, aka like-harvesting, is a method used by commercial parties and scammers alike to raise the popularity of a site or domain. …
ELMAH Security and allowRemoteAccess Explained
Securing your ELMAH log (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is a subject that has been touched upon in multiple presentations and blog …
Explained: Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2)
Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) is the implementation of a European guideline designed to further harmonize money transfers inside the …
Evolution of Phishing: Spear Phishing and Whaling Scams Explained
Due to the high-profile cases of cybercrime in recent years, including the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal back in 2018, the Equifax …
Reflected XSS Explained: How to Prevent Reflected XSS in Your App
What Is a Reflected XSS? An XSS allows an attacker to inject a script into the content of a website or …
Explained: regular expression (regex)
Regular expression, or “regex” for short, is a mathematical term for the theory used to describe regular languages. But in computing, …
Explained: What is big data?
If the pile of manure is big enough, you will find a gold coin in it eventually. This saying is used often to explain why anyone would use …
Blockchain Explained in 7 Python Functions
Blockchain Explained in 7 Python Functions Previous post Tags: Blockchain, Encryption, Python It wasn’t until I wrote my own simple …
Industry 4.0 Explained By A Leading Venture Capitalist
Barry Eggers is the rare venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who grew up in the region. He can recall a time when the area was covered …
Explained: SQL injection
Even though SQL injection is a type of attack that is relatively easy to prevent, it is one of the most common web hacking techniques. So, …
Content Security Policy (CSP) Explained
The Content Security Policy (CSP) standard is a way to selectively specify which content should be loaded in web applications. This can be …