Musings of a technophile

One of the greatest things in security of your web application is the encryption of the connection strings to the database. If the database connection strings are compromised, then an attacker could gain access to your database and cause unforeseen damage. In order to avoid this, Microsoft has created best practices and instruments for encrypting your connection strings in ASP.NET 2.0. This documentation may be found here. I wrote… Continue reading

So my boss where I work noticed that Google was showing 404 error’s in our Google webmaster tools, and that many of those 404’s are on invalid URL’s. With a site as big as ours, I wouldn’t say it would be uncommon to have other sites linking to our content and they mess up the URL in the link, but in any case since we are big on SEO and… Continue reading