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Often while developing an application, programmer needs an information about a value of specific variable, time needed to execute a piece of code or just plain info that some function/module has been entered/exited.
Many developers misunderstand key aspects of the Access Runtime Engine and the Microsoft Office Developer. Microsoft Access can be used as a development tool. Not only does the Access Runtime Engine make it possible to distribute your applications to people who don't have Access, but it also lets you do a lot more.
Who's to blame for the stagnation of computer design? Tyler Sperry takes a look at the perspectives of the ACM and others on this issue.
Running a network? You probably already consider your firewall of utmost importance. The important next step is realizing that proper deployment is everything and that firewall ownership does not necessarily equal protection.
Dr. Michael Rabin, currently at Harvard, announced a new kind of cipher that is "provably unbreakable." And, indeed, it is exactly that, given the assumptions on which it is based.
Tyler Sperry discusses the art of software design and Robert Dilts' method of design (dream it, critique it, then reconcilse it). Second, he discusses checksums with AOL and Instant Messaging.
Who's to blame for the stagnation of computer design? Tyler Sperry takes a look at the perspectives of the ACM and others on this issue.
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Email is probably the favorite Internet related service for most. It's also the one that causes the most problems, with regard to security. People cannot live without email anymore. Most Internet spam is now delivered by email, and more importantly, most viruses are now spread via email.
A database can be encrypted using the standard Access menus or by writing a VBA subroutine.
There are hundreds of thousands of certificates floating around. The whole premise of certificates is that multiple parties trust a central certificate authority. This form of security and verification is not without issues.
Is another methodology really needed, or have enough trees and brain cells been spent on the existing methodologies?
FTP was built to be an extremely flexible protocol, and therein lie many of its security problems.
By using a familiar model and providing a series of utility scripts/tools, Idoox simplifies the creation and deployment of Web services.
Don't get locked out! Have you ever had trouble knowing what is and isn't locked when working with a Microsoft Access program? VBA offers several alternative locking strategies for the developer, ranging from locking the entire database to locking one record at a time. In addition, VBA lets you control how long data will be locked. This article shows you how.
Every once in a while, Kurt sees some new security development that really sets him on edge. In this case, DERA has come up with a way to combat email borne viruses.
Often while developing an application, programmer needs an information about a value of specific variable, time needed to execute a piece of code or just plain info that some function/module has been entered/exited.
"We are in the early stages of a yet another dramatic shift in computing paradigms." This statement was made by Marge Breya, Chief Marketing Officer of iPlanet in reference to Web Services. Is this just hype?
Many developers misunderstand key aspects of the Access Runtime Engine and the Microsoft Office Developer. Microsoft Access can be used as a development tool. Not only does the Access Runtime Engine make it possible to distribute your applications to people who don't have Access, but it also lets you do a lot more.
URLs have associated security implications. "Interesting" ways of using them have been known by spammers for a while, but now the Microsoft Knowledge Base spoof and the February of Crypto-Gram have made the Internet community more aware of what URLs can do.
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Running a network? You probably already consider your firewall of utmost importance. The important next step is realizing that proper deployment is everything and that firewall ownership does not necessarily equal protection.
Designing a secure solution, be it a protocol, algorithm or enterprise architecture, is far from trivial. Apart from the technical or scientific difficulties to overcome, there is a mental trap easy to fall into: looking at the picture through the eyes of the designer. This first of a two part series from Security Portal looks at alternative, perhaps even unusual, means to induce or exploit security vulnerabilities.
There are cases in which "gentle" techniques like timing or power analyses are not enough to fulfill the attacker's goal. Or the goal itself is not to break the protection scheme but to break through it, to the end target the mechanism is protecting, in a modern reenactment of Alexander the Great's "solution" to the Gordian knot. Enter failure-inducing attacks, in which the technique is to induce a failure in the very protection mechanism itself.