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How To Disable/Bypass The Gmail Spam Filters

One common complaint about gmail, especially for Google Apps users, is the fact you are pretty much forced to use their spam filtering. Generally I get good results with them, but to be honest I prefer sorting through emails myself. Most guides which go over how to disable their spam filter use something like a...

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Malware And Black Hat Dictionary

I recently began thinking about the misconceptions of the MacDefender malware for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system and I came to one big conclusion – most people don’t know nerd jargon. Reading several online forums people often mistakenly believe MacDefender is a “virus”, when in reality it is a simple static trojan. Expanding upon...

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Password Security From A Developer’s Perspective

One of my biggest pet peeves has to do with password security – and why some websites still don’t take password security seriously. In this article I will go over some of the common limitations and bad decisions I’ve seen, and why there is no reason for any website to have them in place: No...

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A Simple SQL Injection That Is Easy To Miss

SQL Injections are evil. Plain and simple. They are easy to miss, but a major one can cripple an otherwise highly secure application. For the most part, a sql injection would look something like this: In this example the otherwise simple query would fetch all rows in that table. The malicious user could use it...

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