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Understanding Hash Functions and Keeping Passwords Safe

By On September 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Burak  Guzel, a fellow Arizonan, wrote a great tutorial on hash functions, and provides an easy-to-use PHP class to implement them. Read the full article at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/understanding-hash-functions-and-keeping-passwords-safe/

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Why You Don’t Want to Use Online Tools to Manage Your Passwords

By On May 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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.htaccess code to redirect non-www to www.domain.com

By On December 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It’s best to stick with either always using www.example.com or just example.com. Allowing both can confuse the search engines. So here’s how to force your site to always show the www version.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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Turn off error reporting on your production site

By On December 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

On a production site, you would most likely want to hide all possible PHP errors, warnings and notices from your users for both usability, presentational and security purposes.

For development and debugging purposes, you would want to turn on error_reporting and display all error messages so that you can debug [...]

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How to Protect your Gmail Account

By On October 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

October is National Cyber Security Awareness month and a good time for a reminder about why hijackers do what they do and how you can protect your account. Check out the Online Security blog to learn about common hijacking techniques and security practices that will help [...]

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Backup Your Website: You Won’t Miss It Until It’s Gone!

By On September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A past client emailed me this morning to say that they had “a problem” with their website, and asked that I take a look at it.

Going to their website, I saw only what is pictured at the left. Then I called their web hosting service and asked them to look at their server logs.  [...]

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Secure your Gmail Account

By On August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Do you know hackers can easily read your Gmail if you are using public wireless network to read your Gmail! Plus, if you have sensitive data in your Gmail, then they can easily wreak havoc with your life.

I use a secure network to access the Internet from my home office, but often take my [...]

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Password Guidelines – How to Create a Secure Password

By On August 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Most of of us either use one username/password for everything or have a variety passwords on Post-It notes around our monitor. Neither of these is a very secure solution. Best practices for computer security require a strong password, but one that you can remember.

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