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Facebook Trusted Contacts – Phone A Friend

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:August 20, 2013
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Facebook Trusted Contacts – If you have ever watched the show ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ you will know that one of the life lines available to contestants is the ‘Phone A Friend’ option. Facebook has recognised this as a very secure way for users to regain access to their Facebook account.

If you ever have the unfortunate situation where you can’t access your Facebook account, you can now set up Facebook Trusted Contacts. These are the folks who will make sure that you are who you say you are if you should ever need the access codes to your account.

It is actually a very ingenious method of providing access to users who have locked themselves out of their account. You see, now Facebook don’t have to do all the hard work every time a user requests access to his account. (more…)

Facebook Privacy – Securing Your Online Content

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:August 19, 2013
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Facebook Privacy – This is a topic of thousands of blogs posts. It is something we have been warned about time and time again. Almost weekly we hear about social media accounts being compromised.

In all honesty, how bad can it really get? Is that what you are thinking? Who would want to hack my online content? Well perhaps you should ask Mat Honan that question.

We need to be aware of an online culture, where (let’s call them) hackers will try to compromise your on-line accounts just for the challenge of doing so. For others, there is a more sinister agenda behind their motives. Just ask the South African Postbank. (more…)

The Daily Six Pack: August 12, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:August 12, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Twitter Two Factor Authentication Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System, Bruce Schneier Other Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012, The .NET Team XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013, Visual…

The Daily Six Pack: July 25, 2013

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Post published:July 25, 2013
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Google Chromecast directly competes with Apple TV. It makes is possible to cast content from your smartphone, tablet or PC/Laptop to your HD TV. This means you can stream online content too such as YouTube, Netflix (if supported in your country) etc. right into your living room. Next, Chander Dhall…

The Daily Six Pack: July 22, 2013

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Post published:July 22, 2013
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Apple’s dev site was hacked on Thursday last week (or as Apple puts it, was accessed by “an intruder”). That's putting it lightly. Apple also noted that there is a possibility that developers' names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses were compromised. To all the iOS devs out there, better check…

The Daily Six Pack: July 3, 2013

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Post published:July 3, 2013
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LightSwitch Visual Studio 2013 - Beth Massi talks about some of the new features such as Improved JavaScript IntelliSense, API support for refreshing data, Integration with Team Build and Code Analysis, Improved team development, Intrinsic database management with linked database project, LightSwitch projects work more seamlessly with the IDE, all your…

The Daily Six Pack: June 24, 2013

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Post published:June 24, 2013
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Skype Eavesdropping, yes that is correct; Skype is giving the NSA access to customer communications. That means everything you do on Skype, consider it logged on a server somewhere. How would you stay ahead of the game? Where do you begin protecting your assets and on-line communications? Dylan Love chats about…

The Daily Six Pack: June 12, 2013

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Post published:June 12, 2013
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Data Backup strategies vary, but one thing is for certain. How ever you do it, be sure to do it. Shawn Keene wrote a great article on his blog about his hard drive crash and how he recovered from it. Do you backup your data on a regular basis? What…

Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 2 (Dive Deeper)

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:June 6, 2013
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Dynamic Permissions
Document Generation
Event Viewer
Visual Guard Authentication
Visual Guard Groups
Visual Guard Server
Check Security Actions
Managing Identity Federation With Visual Guard
Deploying The Visual Guard Repository
Final Thoughts

In my previous article, Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 1, we were introduced to some basic features of this fantastic product. In this post I will dive a little deeper and get to grips with some of the more advanced features of Visual Guard. (more…)

Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 1

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:June 4, 2013
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Visual Guard Features
Installation
Start Visual Guard WinConsole and create a Repository
Integrate Visual Guard Runtime with your Application
Connecting to your Repository / Set up your Application
Creating a User
Edit Password Policy

I think any developer will agree with me that adding security features to an application can be an absolute pain. This is especially true if you don’t have a set template or module that you can slot into your application.

Well with Novalys Visual Guard, the integration of security features is no longer a slog. Visual Guard makes this process very easy to do indeed. In this post we will look at using Visual Guard with a plain simple Windows Forms Application, but Visual Guard can be integrated with .NET 2.0 and above, C#, vb.net, asp.net, Winforms, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, MVC3, MVC4, Windows Azure, PowerBuilder 8 and above, Microsoft Sharepoint and any technologies Supporting HTTP Requests (Java, C++…).

I have to admit that while much of the integration processes should be quite straight forward for most developers, the extensive help files and Developer’s Guide do warrant a read though in order to grasp some of the more advanced features of Visual Guard. (more…)