2007 May

Entries from May 2007

ROR Security Blog on a roll

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Here is an article about input parameters validation framework. It is just a couple of functions but it works very well and is easy to use.
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P.S. I will be writing something original soon…stay tuned.

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Tags: code · rails · security

Possible XSS issue with to_json in Rails

May 25th, 2007 · No Comments

The Ruby on Rails Security Blog has a post about a potential XSS issue with to_json.
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Tags: rails · security

A good article about SQL Injection

May 21st, 2007 · No Comments

The Ruby on Rails Security blog has a good article about SQL Injection and Ruby on Rails. Check out the SQL Injection article.
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Tags: rails · security

MyBooksmarts.com 4.0 is released

May 17th, 2007 · No Comments

It has taken a lot of hard work but I have finally finished the latest version of MyBooksmarts.com. It is hard to believe one year and four versions.
Please check it out and let me know what you think.
http://mybooksmarts.com/
Thank you and enjoy.

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Tags: AWS · mybooksmarts · rails

Article about Penetration Testing

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Here is an interesting article by Bruce Schneier about the benefits and issues with penetration testing – “Is Penetration Testing Worth It?”.
I think it makes a lot of sense. I have been researching what types security testing tools are out there and wondering what is the best way to test for security flaws.
Is it better [...]

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Tags: security

Post about the uses of Amazon’s SQS

May 7th, 2007 · No Comments

This is a really great post about the usefulness of Message Bus Architecture and, in particular, SQS.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/05/sqs_super_queue.html

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