Radical Development | 2011

July 28, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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PlayLater: A Digital Video Recorder For PlayOn

PlayLater is a digital video recorder that gives you the freedom to record your favorite online videos and enjoy them on your schedule. As more and more of you are getting your favorite shows online, we felt that it was high time the rest of your entertainment technology caught up. After all, the same reasons that apply to recording TV shows and movies in the old world apply to the new world, right? Convenience, access, and frankly — sometimes you don’t have an Internet connection available and that shouldn’t bar you from watching your favorite shows. The future of entertainment …

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July 24, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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Who Is Behind Database Security Breaches

Senior developers and architects often make decisions related to application performance or other areas that have significant ramifications on the security of the application for years to come. Some decisions are obvious: How do we authenticate users? How do we restrict page access to authorized users? Others, however, are not so obvious. U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director A.T. Smith said, Americans over the past several years have seen the significant impacts data breaches are having on our nation’s financial infrastructure. Today, cyber criminals are operating in nearly every civilized nation in the world, exposing Americans’ personal information, either stored or …

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July 13, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

If you’re running a Windows platform then you must secure your operating system and the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) makes it a breeze. Securing your operating system is absolutely the single most important step you can take to protect yourself. Computers have become so mainstream in homes today that often daily activities that they were previously down with pen and paper are all but extinct. There are a number of actions that should be taken which include staying up to date with patches and of course controlling user account but this just begins to scratch the surface. Unless you’re …

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July 6, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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OWASP Application Security Tutorials

Application security encompasses measures taken throughout the application’s life-cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgrade, or maintenance of the application. Applications only control the use of resources granted to them, and not which resources are granted to them. They, in turn, determine the use of these resources by users of the application through application security. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) updates on the latest threats which impair web based applications. This aids developers, security testers and architects to focus on better design and …

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