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Pointing Website Root To osCommerce Catalogue Directory

Monday, May 31st, 2010

This is a simple snippet and configuration change which you can use to point the root of your website to your installation directory, normally ‘catalog’. This would mean the URL in the address bar would become http://www.mydomain.com/index.php instead of http://www.mydomain.com/catalog/index.php. An amateur coder could easily modify this code for other web projects. Pointing website root to WordPress installation directory

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Password Liabilities

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

“Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you’ve stored on your computer and in your online accounts.”

“If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many cases you would not notice these attacks until it was too late.” (WikiPedia)

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SQL injection, examples and prevention

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

What is SQL Injection

SQL injection is the practice of exploiting applications in order to gain access to and manipulate a database. In this article I will discuss examples and prevention in PHP/MySQL.

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