What is a secure password?
This password has a minimum number of 8 characters, 1 number, 1 special character, 1 mutation, 1 small alphabetic character, 1 great alphabetic character.
This function will help you to create a secure password.
There is a new community tool called StumbleUpon which makes web browsing seem like channel surfing with a television. This little piece of HTML tricks StumbleUpon into automatically voting a page up. You need to have StumbleUpon installed for this to work.
This is meant as a demonstration of a vulnerability which affects several community sites, not only StumbleUpon.
FreeVersion: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Sun Jun 19 2005
SSL is an internet security protocol. When a web server sends out content through HTTPS, this one gets encrypted so that only the client making the request can read it.
FreeVersion: 1.0 Platform(s): n/a Updated: Sun Apr 17 2005
There are more extensive ways to do an IP address format check, but this is a good cursory check. Simply call it passing an IP address as a string and it will return true if it's valid, false if it isn't.
Version: n/a Platform(s): linux, windows, freebsd, osx, sun Updated: Fri Jan 26 2007
Here’s a way to protect the products you sell with Clickbank, using their built-in protection and by implementing a 30-day expiration, all without having to worry about managing databases or customer lists.
Version: n/a Platform(s): linux, windows Updated: Fri Feb 3 2006
Learn how to super protect your files without the use of mySQL. This tutorial will help you learn how to password protect your file quickly and easily in a few lines of code.
Version: n/a Platform(s): Unix, Win NT Updated: Thu Mar 4 2004
This article will guide you through writing secure PHP code and covers many of the common security pitfalls one will encounter while making php applications. Covers things such as register globals, SQL injection, include files, and demonstrates how to protect against those kind of attacks. Anyone new to PHP, and even some more experianced people, should read this before deploying thier application.
Version: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Tue Dec 9 2003
This article demostrates an easy way to maintain sessions and security (or authorization) in PHP. It does NOT use the PHP built in session support. The following method will allow you to easily secure any PHP page by simply including a file at the top of every page. In this tutorial you will: a) Create your database structure; b) Create a login page; c) Create your security check include file; d) Secure your site.
Update: I fixed a couple of bugs in the article. Thanks for the feedback
Update to the update: I have fixed the article text to include the code that was missing due to the previous update.
Version: 1.1 Platform(s): PHP Updated: Wed Nov 26 2003
This tutorial explains how to safely hide away PDF files from public access using htaccess, but then having a PHP file run its own authorization to allow access to the file without the Network Password dialog box. The PDF file will be displayed in the browser (if the user has acrobat reader) or promoted to download the pdf file if the user doesn't have acrobat reader. This is perfect for when you want to restrict PDF files to authorized eyes only. This simple to use tutorial will have you up and running in a few minutes, one page of info with full source code, and working examples.
Version: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Thu Dec 13 2001
Connecting to a database requires that passwords be included in the script at some point. This information may
be exposed if you do not wrap your PHP scripts. Protecting your scripts from prying eyes is called "wrapping." When you wrap a script, it is called by another script that
hides your script and performs a number of security checks to ensure only authorized use is made of it. This article covers how to use a script wrapper.
Version: n/a Platform(s): n/a Updated: Mon Mar 27 2000
