Sometimes issues jump at you from a completely unexpected place. One moment you’re basking in the peculiar March sunny day, and the next you’re puzzling about why people choose a specific Linux distro, or why do script kiddies insist on trying to break where they shouldn’t……
Setting up a custom 404 error page serves two purposes:
- It allows you to present your users a nice message rather than the ugly, server-generated default page.
- It serves to mask the server’s identity – so, security is a little better.
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Seam is quite a good and secure framework as far as frameworks go. However, with a simple ServletFilter, it can be made just a little bit more secure, and maybe help you pass that next audit. In this post you’ll see how to define a Seam servlet filter to secure your website just a little bit more.…
Timing attacks are very difficult to pull off, but are possible nevertheless. However, it is quite easy to protect your Cake application against them, and as an aside – against incremental password crackers brute-forcing. This post shows you how.…
CakePHP’s security component is awesome. I use it all the time for its CSRF protection (Which will be the subject of a future post).
But sometimes, it does not work as expected. Frustration ensues.…
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