Articles Tagged With: security
How to Mitigate Cloud-Hosting Downtime
The recent hosting outage from Amazon Web Services affected hundreds of websites and millions of ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Decoding PCI DSS Requirement 3: Protect Stored Cardholder Data
Credit card data is just as vulnerable to hackers when it’s resting, as when it’s in use. Provisi... 0 Comments | Read More »
Deploying a Secure Ecommerce Application in the Cloud
As cloud computing continues to move from "early adopters" to the "early majority," many online... 0 Comments | Read More »
Decoding PCI DSS Requirement 6: Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Applications
The main directive of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Requirement 6 is... 0 Comments | Read More »
Decoding PCI DSS Requirement 4: Encrypting and Storing Credit Card Data
Data encryption seems complicated, and in most cases it lives up to that complexity. This is espe... 0 Comments | Read More »
"Are You Human" Tests Go To the Dogs, and Cats
A new "are you human" test uses easily discernable photographs to protect comments and product re... 0 Comments | Read More »
Understanding Octal Notation File-Permission Settings
Security is paramount for ecommerce websites and applications since site transactions may includ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Apple, Adobe, and Web Apps Need to do More for Security
Web developers concerned about security vulnerabilities in the web pages and applications they cr... 0 Comments | Read More »
Tokenization Eases PCI Burden
Segmenting credit card data and using tokenization greatly reduces the scope of the Payment Card ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Tutorial: How to Create a Secure User Form in PHP
Most of the content on a website is free information meant to be seen by the general public. Howe... 0 Comments | Read More »
Top Five Application-Security Risks for 2010
It wouldn't be the new year without a "best of" or a "top ten" list. For my list, I’ve chosen to... 0 Comments | Read More »