Entries from Clayton Donley's Blog tagged with 'security'

Presenting Security Exceptions to the User

There is a post today on Pingdom talking about the new Firefox SSL error page that appears when you try to connect to a site with a self-signed or invalid certificate. As you see in the image above, it actually...

Group Accounts and Lab Servers - How a Dating Service Took Out the Network

Having just mentioned "The Cuckoo's Egg," I thought I'd share my first IT security experience. I started my career at a large enterprise on a team managing networks of servers and workstations from vendors like Sun, HP, Motorola, and the...

AmTrust Bank Talks about Centralizing Database Authentication

AmTrust Bank packed the room at Oracle OpenWorld, but thankfully the web's a little larger and has more comfortable chairs. There will be a Webcast on May 1st at 1pm EDT (10am PDT) that reprises the original session and includes...

The Cuckoo's Egg Revisited

Ah. The Cuckoo's Egg. The first non-fiction computer security book I ever read. Even saw the author (Cliff Stoll) give a talk at a local college 10+ years ago. I was reminded of this book by a great conversation at...

Secure Coding Practices and Web 2.0 Security

I'm not sure how I missed Mary Ann Davidson's original blog posting on the subject of making fixing security by fixing how developers learn to write software (and much more), but I came across Dennis Howlett's response to it on...

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