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In a previous post, I gave a brief introduction to mandatory access control (MAC) and discretionary access control (DAC) access models. In this article, we’ll explore an actual imp...
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If you’re familiar with a language other than PHP, it’s likely that you’ve encountered native implementations of the enumeration data type. It’s a primitive that was present even b...
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Here at Vokke we use PRTG as a tool to monitor all of our infrastructure components. We needed to monitor some Sender Policy Framework (SPF) DNS records (the modern, TXT-based ones...
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A colleague and I recently ran into an interesting scenario when using Doctrine, a data mapper object-relational mapping library. As it turns out, you cannot natively get a list of...
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In software design, the term “access control” refers to the limitations of access to resources by other entities, typically end-users. This is a very active area of research, and t...
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Our development team recently ran into quite an interesting issue – when joining around 20 tables together, the query performed outrageously slowly, taking in excess of 40 seconds...
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Ever wondered how web apps store your password securely? It’s quite an interesting topic, and the answer may surprise you. Let’s take a deep dive look at the mechanics that protect...
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Random numbers are at the heart of security on the internet. Without them, the internet would be a totally insecure place, a world where confidential online banking and messaging w...
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