Black Hat Hacking – Cyber Outlaws

by | Oct 5, 2009 | Original Posts From 2009

Lock up your silver and hide your daughters away…They’re out there – the cyber-outlaws, riding around the net in their virtual black hats, hijacking, impersonating, stealing data, and generally raising hell online. Most normal users of the Internet go about...

Secret Decoder Ring

by | Sep 30, 2009 | Original Posts From 2009

OK – Right now we are studying Web Security in the course. This is a subject guaranteed to make the most sanguine person just a little paranoid.Apparently, no data is totally secure.  Public keys, private keys, certificates, hashing, encryption of data right down to...

To post or not to post

by | Jul 22, 2009 | Original Posts From 2009

A friend of mine recently emailed me to complain that too much time had passed since I updated this blog. I hadn’t realized that there were rules about how often one had to post – I had thought it was sufficient to post only when I actually had something to say. So,...

Coffee Code

by | Jun 17, 2009 | Original Posts From 2009

OK – back in April,  PHP got me smoking again – I’m fairly certain Javascript will lead me to drink this month – and who knows to what new lows  CGI or AJAX will take me…  My husband says that by the time I finish this program I’ll have so many vices I’ll have to...

WebMonsters

by | May 14, 2009 | Original Posts From 2009

I was lucky enough to be able to be a “stay-at-home-Mom” for the first 16 years of my daughter’s life. This is not to say I didn’t work during that time – I just didn’t get paid, or at least not much.Never being one to sit around being bored, I was always working at...