Newsmaker Interview: Scott Helme on Securing the Web

Scott Helme, the well-known security researcher, international speaker and the founder of the securityheaders.com and report-uri.com free tools for web security, has devoted himself to improving the security environment of the internet for the past dec… Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Scott Helme on Securing the Web

Tiny Websites have no Server

A big trend in web services right now is the so-called serverless computing, such as Amazon’s Lambda service. The idea is you don’t have a dedicated server waiting for requests for a specific purpose. Instead, you have one server (such as Amazon’s) listening for lots of requests and on demand, you spin up an environment to process that request. Conceptually, it lets you run a bit of Javascript or some other language “in the cloud” with no dedicated server. A new concept — https://itty.bitty.site — takes this one step farther. The site creates self-contained websites where the content is encoded …read more

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8 Tips to Harden Your Joomla Installation

Joomla arrived on the scene in 2005 as a fork of the Mambo content management system (CMS). Downloaded over 91 million times, it has since eclipsed Mambo to become a ubiquitous platform for websites of all sizes. According to last year’s Hacked W… Continue reading 8 Tips to Harden Your Joomla Installation

The National Park Service Promises to Reinstate 92 Climate Change Pages Removed From Website

Dozens of documents outlining how national parks will address climate change were removed from the agency’s website this month. Continue reading The National Park Service Promises to Reinstate 92 Climate Change Pages Removed From Website

How to harden AdwCleaner’s web backend using PHP

More and more applications are moving from desktop to the web, where they are particularly exposed to security risks. They are often tied to a database backend, and thus need to be properly secured, even though most of the time they are designed t… Continue reading How to harden AdwCleaner’s web backend using PHP

“TorWitness” Docker Container: Automated (Tor) Websites Screenshots

The idea of this Docker container came after reading the excellent Micah Hoffman’s blog post: Dark Web Report + TorGhost + EyeWitness == Goodness. Like Micah, I’m also receiving a daily file with new websites discovered on the (dark|deep) web (name it as you prefer). This service is provided by @huncky

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