I know, I know, I’m a few days late for the whole World Backup Day craziness. But here we go anyway – remember to backup. And… remember to check your backups and archives! Every 3 months I archive my clients’ emails to keep my imap mailbox nice and clean. A couple of weeks ago was...

SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is the newest attempt by the RIAA/MPAA/Media Lobbyists Congress to control Internet piracy. The way it all works now is like this: If a site infringes on a copyright, the content owner will send in a complaint, called a DMCA (Digital Mellinium Copyright Act) Notice to the website’s...

Back in October Google announced that they would be enabling SSL search by default… at least for Google account owners. What this means is every ounce of information is (at least theoretically *see below) encrypted while it goes over the tubes between Google’s servers and your computer or mobile devices. Traditionally SSL was only used...

There have always been many different ways of setting up Apache and php. Whether it is with SuPHP, a multi-process-module, or simply using the Apache module, each way has pros and cons. Up until a few days ago I usually stuck with SuPHP – as it was the easiest to setup. However, I got adventurous...

As you probably already know, web application security has been an increasingly hot topic over the past decade. From simple SQL injections to full-on website defacings, many websites, big or small, have been affected by lackluster security. If you use a prebuilt system such as WordPress the biggest thing you can do is update the...