Archive for the tag ‘security’

  • Get rid off phpmail()!

    Monday, August 31st, 2009 by stevie

    Dear sysadmins and developers, phpmail() IS OUT! Get rid off it. Now! One of the most common sources of spam are “hacked” webservers and poorly or even non-secured forms. By using phpmail the webserver must be allowed to send mails without checks for a valid sender. This results – mostly on a shared web host [...]

  • TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

    Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by stevie

    I recently found a document, stating it contains the most dangerous programming errors. The layout of this article is very … let’s say technical so I was about to close this one because it’s not very much fun to read it. But the first few lines took me in and I read the whole thing. [...]