Category Archives: Security

Ban programmers, not functions

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Bob Somers

So my daily travels around the intertubes landed me on a very interesting blog post by Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle team (which they call SDL, not to be confused with the arguably more useful Simple DirectMedia Layer library). The post … Continue reading →

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SSL detection by PHP scripts run through FastCGI on nginx

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Bob Somers

How’s that title for acronym soup? I ran across this issue when playing around with nginx. I was trying to set up phpMyAdmin for SQL administration, but ran into a rather peculiar issue. To explain the problem, let me give … Continue reading →

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