What Is A “Blind” XSS
The Blind XSS (BXSS) is a type of Persistent XSS attack where the hacker ‘blindly’ targets webpages that store user input in a database (like blogs, forums, contact forums, login pages etc etc) the...
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Another Data Breach, Another Day
Well well, what do we have here. Another data breach you say? Wow, how crazy. It must have been a super skilled black hat hacker, full of hacking knowledge and super duper hacking level...
Amazon & Alibaba are getting you comfortable with Insecure Clouds
It’s like Amazon and Alibaba woke up one day and said “I think we’re going to start Cloud Computing”. To give you some background here. Alibaba was founded by entrepreneur Jack Ma, and worked...
Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou’s Arrest Highlights Data, Security and Privacy Concerns in Canada
One of China’s largest tech giants, Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, has been arrested in Vancouver while in transit to Mexico. She is facing extradition to New York at the request of the US authorities...
The Hype and Reality Around SDDC (Software Defined Data Centers)
There’s been growing interest and hype around software defined data centers. It sounds great on paper to have a whole datacenter in software that is portable and flexible. But people forget, that the REAL...
Do Not Track Is Still Tracking
Ever click the “Do Not Track’ function in your browser settings assuming that it’s stopping pages and websites from ‘tracking you and your online activity’? Any reasonable person would think this. Except it’s still...
Oracle’s NoSQL Service a Signal For The Future
Oracle just released their NoSQL service. Is it just me or is it like Microsoft switching to a Unix based architecture? Oracle’s transactional database system has been the standard for ERP, finance and other...
My experience as an instructor at BCIT’s High Tech Professional, NASP Program
I’ve done a lot of technical support in a hands-on way as a junior over a decade ago and I think this sets a person up for being able to train and teach. As...
182,000 IT Positions Available By 2019 – True or False?
I know this article is quite old from 2015 but it inspires IT professionals and business owners like me to muse aloud about the reality. It is really based on a report from the...
Quantum Computing Cloud Provider Rigetti Takes on Big Cloud Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft
Who says competitors can’t say good things about each other? While we are not into quantum computing we do salute Rigetti’s foray into Cloud Computing. But as some say even with quantum computing their...
