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Hacks From Pax: PHP Web Application Security  08 August 2005  Print E-mail
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Features Today on Hacks From Pax we'll be discussing PHP web application security. PHP is a great language for rapidly developing web applications, and is very friendly to beginning programmers, but some of its design can make it difficult to write web apps that are properly secure. We'll discuss some of the main security "gotchas" when developing PHP web applications, from proper user input sanitization to avoiding SQL injection vulnerabilities.

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Network Intrusion Prevention Systems – When They’re Valuable, and When They’re Not  25 July 2005  Print E-mail
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Features Anyone keeping track of the security vendor/technology hype knows that IPS has quickly replaced IDS as the “next big thing�. Depending on who you are, you may chalk this up to yet another infosec fad, or you could be of the opinion that IPS is actually making good on the promises that IDS never lived up to. I think it can be both – depending on your situation.

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Hacks From Pax: Network Server Monitoring With Nmap  18 July 2005  Print E-mail
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Features Hi, and welcome back to another edition of Hacks From Pax. Today we'll discuss hardening Linux servers by scanning for unnecessarily open network ports, and we'll show you how to automate port scanning so you can easily monitor your network for vulnerabilities.

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Pull the Plug Revisited: An Interview Five Years Later  05 July 2005  Print E-mail
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Features Five years after our original interview with Brian Gemberling, founder of PullthePlug.org, we catch up with Daniel Alvarez and the rest of the site's administrative management. Its structured management and focus on the community will ensure many years of continued success. You're asking, what is pull the plug? Read more to find out...

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Hacks From Pax: Linux File & Directory Permissions Mistakes  27 June 2005  Print E-mail
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Features Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome to linuxsecurity.com and our new recurring series of articles on security related mistakes and how to avoid them. I'm your host, Pax Dickinson, and today we'll be reviewing basic Linux file and directory permissions and how to avoid some common pitfalls in their use, in this episode of Hacks From Pax.

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