Author Archives: stotti

Boards.ie Forums have been hacked – don’t panic!

Informing users of boards.ie about the security implications of the hack of boards.ie in January 2010 and what to do about it.
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The origins of Cross Site Scripting

Anecdotes on the term "Cross Site Scripting" (a.k.a. XSS/CSS) and a few links to prevent Cross Site Scripting attacks.
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How to generate test files of any length

Every now and then my fellow coworkers and me are faced with clients that mention problems uploading files of a specific size to web content management systems (CMS). While we are trying to solve the problem we need to test the upload ourselves. Now the filesize differs with every inquiry and we have to come [...]
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Jurgen Appelo on agile project management and software development

Some of you readers may already know that i work as an interface between the competent departments and the development teams. I act as the lead of these teams and communicate the functional requirements of the clients and the internal departments to the technical personnel such as developers, system engineers etc. Vice-versa i communicate the [...]
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Update went wrong, blog gone mad

Dear readers of stotti.blog(), unluckily some updates of this blogs’ software did not succeed well. So all the articles were offline for the last three days. It’s all repaired now. Sorry! [update] In the last days i got some mails of readers (thanks!) stating that the website loads too slow. I am aware of this issue. Mostly its [...]
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