Experts say that 70 percent of security breaches occur at the application level. While Microsoft has incorporated additional security features into the .Net framework, developers continue to make mistakes. The most common of those mistakes include not integrating security into development process, cross-site scripting, enabling debug options in the web.config
At the new VMWare Labs Web site a “fling” is a project in development that’s available for a “brief casual relationship” with users. Sexual innuendo aside, the site does offer some potentially useful tools. They include VMware Guest Console, which manages guest operating systems installed on a virtual machine; Apache
In the newly unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, users can download apps that work with Google’s cloud-based apps. The new app store currently contains 50 third-party tools that enhance Gmail, Google Calendar, and other popular Google applications. Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, noted “With their own app
According to Google, the latest version of the Android NDK should allow developers to create apps with better graphics and better overall performance. ” The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain classes of
If you’ve always wondered what a smart card is, here’s how to think about it: a smart card, used for authentication, is a mini computer that has a hardware and software component. The hardware component contains a micro chip/integrated circuit (ICC) as a memory card. Another category of the smart