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	Application Error Handling: How to Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts 31 Aug 2006 Updated: 31 Aug 2006 Rating: 1.90/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 1.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,411 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn about the best practices that should be followed when creating error messages, including important guidelines that should be taken into consideration.
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Windows	Malicious Code Injection: It's Not Just for SQL Anymore 19 Oct 2006 Updated: 19 Oct 2006 Rating: 4.49/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 103,875 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. While many developers are aware of the threats posed by malicious code, and by SQL injection attacks in particular, there are other forms of code injection that are equally dangerous. Learn more about XPath injection, LDAP injection, and command execution injection, and view examples of each type.
	Preventing a Brute Force or Dictionary Attack: How to Keep the Brutes Away from Your Loot 11 Jan 2007 Updated: 11 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,353 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, is one of the more uncomplicated attacks available to a hacker. However, the odds of this type of attack succeeding can be very high if a site is not configured properly.
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ASP.NET	Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Part One 2 May 2007 Updated: 3 May 2007 Rating: 4.15/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 5.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,097 Bookmarked: 95 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In part one of this two part article, you will learn about five of the top ten “worst offenders” of misconfigurations of application security that can cause overall problems for ASP.NET Web-based applications. Learn more about how to secure the Web.config files of an ASP.NET application.
	Top 10 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files - Part Two 22 May 2007 Updated: 22 May 2007 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 64,051 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn about application security issues related to authentication and authorization, as well as five vulnerabilities commonly found in ASP.NET web-based applications.
HTML	Testing for Security in the Age of AJAX Programming 28 Sep 2006 Updated: 28 Sep 2006 Rating: 3.11/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.48 Licence: Not specified Views: 25,160 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn more about securing your website's AJAX programming.

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Bryan_Sullivan

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United States

Bryan Sullivan is a development manager at SPI Dynamics, a Web application security products company. Bryan manages the DevInspect and QAInspect Web security products, which help programmers maintain application security throughout the development and testing process. He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Georgia Tech and 12 years of experience in the information technology industry. Bryan is currently coauthoring a book with noted security expert Billy Hoffman on Ajax security, which will be published in summer 2007 by Addison-Wesley.