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Carsonifed.com post: Bulletproof backups for MySQL

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/bulletproof-backups-for-mysql/

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Tags: code · database · install · mysql · security · sysadmin · web

A good security checklist from Sarah Allen

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2010/01/rails-security-review-checklist/

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Tags: code · rails · ruby · security · web

OAuth articles from stakeventures.com

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

A couple of good articles about integrating OAuth into your Rails app.
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/11/26/how-to-turn-your-rails-site-into-an-oauth-provider
http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin/tree/master

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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · security

A couple of good rails related articles

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/
http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/21/real-world-csrf-update-your-radiant-now/
http://www.igvita.com/2007/06/05/creating-javascript-widgets-in-rails/

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A CSRF Article

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

There is a good article about CSRF Attacks at ROR Security.  It discusses a couple different ways that the attack can be executed and how to prevent these.
Here is the link: http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/05/csrf-an-underestimated-attack-method/

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Joe Walker’s Slides on Web Security

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/10/29/web_application_security.html

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Security update for Restful Authentication

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2007/10/28/restful_authentication-login-security/

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A good article about Sessions and Rails

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/10/21/sessions-and-cookies-in-ruby-on-rails

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Ruby on Rails Security Cheatsheet

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

There has been a lot of great information about Rails and security.  Here is the RoR Secuirty Cheatsheet.
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A good Rails Security Guide

September 21st, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/9/20/ruby-on-rails-security-guide

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