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Improving Usability on „My Chorizo“ page: the host signature file
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in ChorizoIn the spirit of Web2.0 applications, we constantly improve Chorizo! and silently update the application with the newest features. In order to scan a host, you have to prove that you are the owner of the host by uploading a unique signature file to your host’s document root. Some of our users had trouble uploading…
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3,500 users in 2 days. Awaiting the birth of the bloody alien sausage.
Geez! What a week. Right after the announces at several newstickers and websites (on heise security German and heise Security English, an extensive German review at dynamic-webpages.de and one in French at nexen.net) on Monday, more than 3,500 users (and counting) registered at our small security sausage tool and created hundreds of thousands security scans…
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Handling different Configurations in an ITIL Staging Process
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in PHPWhat’s ITIL at all ? ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is a description of different processes to manage the whole ITInfrastruture from the first use of a software to user helpdesks. The aim of the defined processes
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Commoditizing PHP security
We think it’s time to commoditize PHP web application security. You may have heard of Chorizo!. We’re proud to announce that from now on it’s possible to register for a free account on chorizo-scanner.com. With this free account, it’s possible to use the Chorizo! application service as a proxy and scan 1 host. All scan…
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Accessing NTLM secured resources with PHP
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in PHPSometimes you need to do strange things – and then PHP is the language of choice if you need a solution for web applications in really special environments like using a Windows based authentication method on a Linux server. Here at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP we wrote a proxy server for the authentication with NTLM…
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An alternative Approach to Tagging
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in PHPThe Term Tagging The popular feature of ‚tagging‘ content is nothing new. The average netizen should have encountered it by now. Tagging was made popular by sites like del.icio.us and flickr, where users can attach free-form strings, so-called ‚tags‘ to their bookmarks and images. The viewer can then use these tags to navigate through one…
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Methods to reduce the load of your webserver by caching content: using lighttpd, MySQL UDF, LUA and speed everything up.
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in PHPThe method I would like to describe is based on the webserver lighttpd. Lighttpd is a single process webserver written for high traffic sites. It supports fast-cgi out of the box which makes it ideal for hosting PHP applications. There are lots of nice modules for the daily work like mod_access or mod_rewrite. For more…
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Virtual Data Grid: becoming reality soon
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in PHPIf you use Dojo, have a look at the fabulous widgets called TurboWidgets from TurboAjax.com: it’s available for non-commercial and commercial usage. One of the great widgets (besides Theme support where you can also create your own corporate theme look and feel) is a data grid which can be customized in a wide variety. As…