As some of you may know, I used to be the Support Team Leader of the phpBB Support Team back in the days of phpBB2. I’ve had a lot of shit thrown my way back then, together with the rest of the support team, trying to keep up with the releases, the flaws, the patches…
One (but I’m sure far from the only) thing where business and technology clash is the topic of security. A lot of the projects that we do for clients are based on Joomla! (previously Mambo) technology. Aside from building the site or application, we also offer a SLA for managing the software and, for instance,…
I’m an occasional user of the coComment system. That is, I have an account, I mark most of the comments I leave to be tracked by coComment, yet I rarely actually check. I should do more often of course 😉 Usually, I keep good track of which textarea fields I mark to be tracked by…
Earlier this week, the biggest dutch consumer organization declared that it felt not consumers but computer producers and software developers are responsible for the safety of computers worldwide. They felt virusscan programs, software writers and computer manufacturers should do more to prevent viruses. Basically, their statement said “people don’t know how to handle computers, so…
I just read on PHPDeveloper that there is a new security problem that needs urgent attention of any php developer. It’s RFI, a way for evil crackers to run their code of choice on your server, exposing such information as passwords, or even enabling them to get shell access to your system and maybe become…
Every single programmer must have had this problem at least once. You have unexpected behaviour and can’t find where the problem occurs. Finally, after a lot of searching, you find the problem in an if-condition. Instead of using ==, you used =. Stupid! Sean Coates posts about a nifty little trick to prevent this. Instead…
The following is a reply I wrote to an article by Filip de Waard. Unfortunately, commenting was turned off on his weblog, so I could not comment on his weblog. Here is my comment: buggy PHP scripts like PhpBB Of course, being part of the phpBB team, I want to respond to this. Though I…
I am not even halfway the article, but I’m already quite impressed with it. This article gives a really good overview of things you can do to secure your linux computers from those evil crackers (not hackers!) that try to get into your system to use it for all kinds of malicious stuff.