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Web application intrusion testing
What is Black Box Scanning? Black-box web application scanning, if we abstract from the details, is a simple process: Identify all links, forms, query string parameters. Send specially crafted strings…
Testing the efficacy of your new landing page design
Say you just changed the design of your landing page - and want to figure out whether it ACTUALLY holds your customer's attention longer than the previous version. A/B testing (also…
Concatenated Queries at the Root of SQL Injection attacks
ORM is supposed to protect against SQL Injection attacks. As are Stored Procedures (due to parametrization of the data in the query). However, both ORMs and Stored Procs will not…
Copy and Paste equations from PDF to whatever
The easiest technique I found was to use the SNIPPING Tool on windows 10 – to capture a snip (screenshot) from the PDF. Save the screenshot as an image- and…
Outlook password change not picked up by iPhone client
I recently changed my outlook 365 password - and was unable to get my iPhone mail client to pick up the new password. Here are a few things I Step…
TFS Build without a build servers
Ideally, your builds should be taking place on a configured build server – which pulls the latest code (from a specified branch) and then tries to compile it. In a…
When to consider SQL Server Enterprise
The crux of the matter lies in Scalability – and security (encryption of data at rest). Here are a few things that you will get with SQL Enterprise that you…
Handling Unpredictable Traffic Demand – AWS AutoScaling
You just spent weeks (months even), planning marketing campaigns to drive traffic to your website - and are hoping to see that translate into ‘new users’ on your ; What…
High Availability versus Disaster Recovery–The Cloud Advantage
As one transitions from application architecture to infrastructure (mainly cloud) architecture, you start hearing the terms High Availability and Disaster Recovery thrown around a lot (and thrown around interchangeably!). While…
Converting from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY only in excel
Lately, I needed to go through a column full of dates – in the format MM-DD-YYYY. The thing is , I didn’t care for the day or the month of…