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Relatively speaking, your security is: Higher if you hold little or no financial information, or have few network resources, Higher if your server is vigorously patched and correctly configured, Higher if your code is built to high standards and Higher if the network connecting your site to the Internet has tight permissions. You can employ …
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With Glenn Norman Get a basic understanding of how servers and security play a key role in the overall functioning of websites. This course will introduce you to the concepts of storing content, such as the basic programming of a website to the design elements, and ways to keep your website and your users safe …
Video training has become a really big business. I’m a classroom teacher myself, and teach the A+ certification and several others, so the question of whether video training can replace classroom time is pretty personal, and I come at it a little skeptically. I’ve endured some truly painful online and video training courses, and I’m …
Massdrop (www.massdrop.com) is a group-buy website located out of New Jersey where people commit to buying a product. Once enough people commit to buying the product, the price begins to drop. After the drop has ended, Massdrop will place an order with the manufacturer. Massdrop has several different “communities” that it uses to list like …
TV personality Kevin Roose asked for it, and he got it. He wanted to research how people get hacked, so he decided to invite some prominent hackers to hack him. And hack him they did, cracking into everything from his webcam (pictures every two minutes) to all his online accounts (including banks). Personally, I wouldn’t …
Hackers are clever techies. The word “hacker” actually has nothing to do with crime: a brilliant engineer would hack out a smart solution to the problem at hand, and consider it a compliment to be called a hacker. There’s a whole culture built on this idea: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture. We are a community dedicated to learning and teaching. …