The US National Security Agency (SANS – www.sans.org) had recently put out a list of top 25 most dangerous programming errors that could expose your applications to cyber criminals.

Most of them can be prevented by following best practices in coding and design.    Every development team should cross check their coding practices to ensure most basic of these errors are avoided.   Here is the list not in order of importance. (more…)

Here is a trick to have your web applications that run on apache servers to authenticate using a LDAP server.   Note, your apache server should support .htaccess.  This is useful when you want to restrict certain applications to authorised users in a network. (more…)