Author Archives: Jan-Erik L.
When programming websites today you always have to worry about the security and many beginners just don’t know how to tackle this. I hope the following will help some of you out there.A very simple yet effective way of making sure that your POST data is secure is to include a security hash. This is far more simple then it sounds, follow the below example and I’m sure you’ll understand. The below goes in form.php/whatever.php <?PHP $key = ‘”‘.md5(“key”.date(“Ymd”).’”‘; ?> … Continue reading
We are looking into intermittent reboots on the Firestar server, multiple outages of 2 – 10 minutes have been reported this morning. @ 00:39 Sun (Tim) – Kernel recompile completed on this and all UK servers! @ 03:55 Sat (Tim) – Post-upgrade kernel does not find lan card – we are working on solution and will try again tomorrow at 00:00. @ 00:53 Sat (Tim) – Kernel upgrade has begun. @ 22:38 (Tim) – We’re going ahead with the Kernel … Continue reading
