Tag Archives: security

The Digital Woes of Public Records

Posted on February 9, 2016 by way0utwest

Researcher Chris Vickery, discovered that 191 million voter records are available to the public. The information was in a database on the Internet, which seemed to be a collection of voter records and information compiled from public sources in various US … Continue reading →

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Creating a User Without a Login

Posted on February 8, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is one of those simple things that many people should be able to do in order to build … Continue reading →

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Maybe Security is Harder than Rocket Science

Posted on February 2, 2016 by way0utwest

I was giving a talk last year about software development and I made an off-hand remark that most of developers out there shouldn’t be writing authentication schemes for applications. My reasoning was that most people aren’t good at writing these … Continue reading →

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Training at the Top

Posted on January 28, 2016 by way0utwest

Many of us see flaws and problems in the way that we code securely as we build software, as well as the way in which our infrastructure security is configured. There have been no shortage of times in my career … Continue reading →

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