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Playing with the new Deep Zoom Composer
04 years ago
Microsoft released another update to Deep Zoom Composer on August 3rd. The latest build of Deep Zoom Composer includes a feature that generators the silverlight code for you and also support photo-stitching. Photo-stitching is where you take multiple pictures and stitch them together to create a panoramic photo. Deep Zoom is the seadragon technology from Microsoft that allows you to pan and zoom in an image and the browser downloads only those pieces of the image in detail that you're looking. Read more [...]
SQL Injection Help .. Microsoft to the rescue with URLScan 3.0.
04 years ago
The number of SQL Injection attacks across the Internet continue to rise. I'm seeing regular posting on the SANS RSS feed related to SQL Injection and XSS these days and clients are finding that applications they thought were not vulnerable turn out to be vulnerable because of patches and custom mods they've had made to them. For most site owners this meant going back to the developers and getting updates and this is generally costly and time consuming. Fortunately, Microsoft has stepped up Read more [...]
Free Online Photo Editors
04 years ago
With the new addition to the family I've got a renewed interest in taking photographs (and video) and ofcourse sharing them. Yeah, I'm one of those Dads. So today I wanted to crop a image for William's website (yeah, not even 5 days old and he's already got his own website at http://williamcoburn.net ). The image I wanted to crop and enhance was of the wallpaper border in his room of Pooh Bear. The only tools I had available on my desktop were picasa and snag-it. So the first thing Read more [...]
SQL Injection Reversal Query Script
05 years ago
The folks over at Early Impact (makers of ProductCart) have released a tool to help remove JavaScript code from a SQL database that may have been hacked as part of the SQL Injection attacks taking place today on the Internet. Here's the details from their newsletter and a link to the SQL query you can execute. Please be warned, I haven't tested this so make sure you have a backup before executing it (just in case): If your database is hacked If your store is hacked (JavaScript code added Read more [...]
SQL Injection attacks and what you can do
05 years ago
It's a shame but not many website owners or for that matter, web developers are familiar with what SQL Injection is and just why it's something they need to worry about. I'm noticing through various forums, friends, etc an increased number of sites being exploited for Cross Site Scripting through SQL Injection. Most blog readers are going to say "HUH? Cross Eyed Scripting? What Injection?" Here's what I'm talking about, a hacker will come to your website and use SQL injection to gain Read more [...]