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Between the vast number of services we log into and log out of every day, it’s often hard for us to remember that the strength of the passwords we use is a very important aspect of keeping passwords secure. How to create a strong password, and why it's important.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: How to create a strong password
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Bastard Programmer from Hell
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"AMD Radeon HD 7970 can reach speeds of up to 8.2 billion passwords per second"
Which would mean something if "vast number of services we log into" didn't lock the account after 3 failed attempts. Lock an account for 10-15 minutes after 3 failures and most the length/special character/number non-sense goes right out the window. That holds pretty true for network and online accounts anyhow.
For something like a password protected document excel or PDF... Best just to assume those are never secure.
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During the development of StarCraft, a two and a half year slog with over a year of crunch time prior to launch, the game was as buggy as a termite nest. While its predecessors (Warcraft I and II) were far more reliable games than their industry peers, StarCraft crashed frequently enough that play-testing was difficult right up until release, and the game continued to require ongoing patching efforts post-launch. Why? There were sooooo many reasons. The game was buggy. Here's why.
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Getting started with PHP in WebMatrix is simple and straightforward. There are 3 main options: you can open an existing site, create a new site from the built-in templates, or build your site based on the common open source applications such as WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal. Diary of a WIMPy (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP) kid.
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The jQuery team has been plagued by IE for years. JavaScript in old IE (their collective moniker for anything below IE9) is antiquated, slow, and lacks the new features added to the language since their respective launches. As a result, the codebase of jQuery must incorporate solutions to handle issues specific to IE. This makes the library significantly larger, and as a result, it takes a lot longer to load. So, as part of version 2.0, jQuery will be dropping support for old IE. In 2014, it’s likely that jQuery will completely drop support for old IE. Consider this a warning.
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Interesting, so the millions of users running XP who don't know how to download other browsers, or are hampered by corporate browser policies, are going to be stuffed by this change. That's not a great step forward. I would prefer it if they had an abstraction policy in place that allowed us to make decide for ourselves whether or not we wanted to include support for IE8-.
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If you want to work for Hashrocket, you'll need to provide a resume, references and a week of your time. [ ITworld ]
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Oh dear: just penned a pithy response to this when IE decided to flake out and I lost what I'd typed.
Suffice it to say that I don't like the idea of a week long interview: arrogance at it's finest.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Very impressive - not. Even less impressive is the fact that I've never heard of any of their clients referenced in their testimonials (other than Vanderbilt University, but the reference is from a professor). Smells like self-promotion to me.
/ravi
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A few thoughts here.
If he really is associated with Anonymous, he's done a great job of screwing their cause.
The internet crazies are out in force (claiming it's really a government conspiracy).
Why is his Twitter account still there?
Why do people feel the need to give him the attention he craves by posting his Twitter account in there?
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It will be interesting to see what the motive behind the attack was and what he/she was trying to expose.
Yes it hurts the customer, but if it exposes critical security issues surely that must carry a positive.
If this is one individual I find it intriguing how he/she can so easily take down such a large player with apparent ease.
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Quote: but if it exposes critical security issues surely that must carry a positive
I don't get it... are you trying to justify this attack as being OK, or are you just being existential and try to find the positive in everything?
There are responsible ways to disclose security vulnerabilities. There is no justification for the way in which this attack occurred.
DaveAuld wrote: so easily take down such a large player with apparent ease.
My guess is social engineering rather than anything purely technical.
Be The Noise
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No I'm not try to justify it as being ok, or looking to find the positive in everything. Yes I am all for responsible disclosure.
I'm only interested in the how it is performed. Maybe that is the engineer in me!
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I just heard about it on the radio,
So this is just for dns lookups hosted by GoDaddy? I use them for name registration.
I wonder why, is it the hot sexy girls they use in there advertising. I don't have a problem with that.
Maybe it's the automatic registration of domain names, when you say no I don't want to renew it, and they do it anyways.
Well, I have the wacky weather here to worry about more, emergency alerts for rain, flash floods, wind and hail.
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Has anyone ever really died at 69?
Sorry, was typing out loud again. Noisey keyboard.
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Dude, it's the News forum for crying out loud!
/ravi
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In my defense, I did delete it.
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Adobe’s Roy Fielding, who is also the original author of the W3C’s Tracking Preference Expression draft, has patched Apache, the open source web server, to ignore the Do Not Track header sent by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, the browser in Windows 8. Even if you agree with Fielding’s views on browser defaults, quietly patching the world’s most used web server to ignore the IE10 setting looks hard to defend, especially on a matter that is far from clear cut. Fielding is personally involved, not only as the author of the Tracking Preference Expression document, but also as an employee of Adobe, which specialises in digital marketing and may be more aligned with the vendors and their brands which may want to track user activity wherever their ads appear, rather than with end users. More web standards drama... where's the popcorn?
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I use C# with .NET or Mono on a daily basis. To be honest, I love the language. It’s clean, efficient and simple. Yesterday however, I suggested on IRC that whilst C# has definately benefited OpenSim with its simple debugging, rapid development and wide selection of prebuilt classes to choose from, it was not a great choice for what is, essentially, a high performance application. Upon stating this, a couple of people chirped up to tell me that while a language like C or C++ would provide better performance, I would be suprised how far JIT compilers have come. I decided to put this to the test. More evidence that how you code is just as important as what you code it in?
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