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Cyber Security / Hardware / Operating Systems / Privacy & Compliance / Software / Web

US-CERT: 50 free PDF guides & tutorials to protect yourself against Cyber threats All the PDF released by US-CERT to test your knowledge against the most important Information Security topics as of today

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From the issues related to PC configurationsto the latest Malware and Ransomware threats; from the Backup procedures to the Data Breach; from DDoS attacks to the latest Bluetooth and Wi-Fi vulnerabilities. These are …

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Privacy & Compliance / Web

GDPR - Full Text in one single page - HTML & PDF The whole text of the UE General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) in one single huge HTML & PDF page

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The new European General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679), also known as the GDPR, came into force on May 25, 2018. In this article we're publishing the full Regulation text in …

GDPR - Full Text in one single page - HTML & PDF The whole text of the UE General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) in one single huge HTML & PDF page Read More
Coding / PHP / Web

WordPress - How to Escape & Strip HTML tags from the Post Title A tutorial explaining how to properly use the get_the_title() and the_title_attribute() WordPress functions to properly format the Post Entry Title

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Today I received an e-mail from Richard of Comparitech (thank you Richard, by the way!)  telling me that there was an odd issue with our blog's social sharing feature. I …

WordPress - How to Escape & Strip HTML tags from the Post Title A tutorial explaining how to properly use the get_the_title() and the_title_attribute() WordPress functions to properly format the Post Entry Title Read More
Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

Comparitech Speed Test - a valid alternative to Ookla Speedtest.net A new broadband speed test service which features an interesting, Charity-oriented fund raising plan

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Any non-newbie Internet user - and developer - is most likely aware of the Ookla's Speedtest.net website, the free broadband speed measurement service founded in 2006 and leading the market …

Comparitech Speed Test - a valid alternative to Ookla Speedtest.net A new broadband speed test service which features an interesting, Charity-oriented fund raising plan Read More
Cloud / Servers & Services / Web

Google launches Drive Stand-Alone for Business at Google Cloud Next 2018 Mountain View giant announced at GCN18 a new stand-alone version of Google Drive for Business for those who do not want to subscribe to the whole G-Suite package

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The news keep flowing from San Francisco during the Google Cloud Next 2018 event: in case you've missed the first two days, you can view them on YouTube by clicking here for …

Google launches Drive Stand-Alone for Business at Google Cloud Next 2018 Mountain View giant announced at GCN18 a new stand-alone version of Google Drive for Business for those who do not want to subscribe to the whole G-Suite package Read More
Coding / Privacy & Compliance / Social Networks / Web

Data Transfer Project - Google, Twitter, Microsoft & Facebook Introducing Data Transfer Project, the new framework developed by Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Facebook to meet the Right to Data Portability GDPR requirements

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On Friday, July 20, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter announced the launch of the Data Transfer Project (DTP), a joint initiative to create a common open-source, service-to-service data portability platform that …

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ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services / Web

ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols

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If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against a nasty issue affecting one or more of your Web Application Projects when you publish it to …

ASP.NET C# - The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - How to fix it How to fix the "System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm" error by properly configuring the TLS 1.1 & TLS 1.2 cryptographic protocols Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security

AESCrypt - AES 128 / AES 192 / AES 256 Class for ASP.NET C# with advanced settings Yet Another AES-Rijndael cryptographic class for ASP.NET C# to easily handle basic and advanced crypto tasks using 128, 192 and 256 Key Length and a whole lot of custom options & settings: Hash, Padding Mode, Cipher Mode, Salt, IV & more

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The AES 256 / Rijndael encryption standard had a lot of ASP.NET C# implementations within the past few years: projects like BouncyCastle, SharpAESCrypt and CryptoN, just to name a few of them, are …

AESCrypt - AES 128 / AES 192 / AES 256 Class for ASP.NET C# with advanced settings Yet Another AES-Rijndael cryptographic class for ASP.NET C# to easily handle basic and advanced crypto tasks using 128, 192 and 256 Key Length and a whole lot of custom options & settings: Hash, Padding Mode, Cipher Mode, Salt, IV & more Read More
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Office Interop DCOM Config on a Windows Server IIS Machine to open Word, Excel and Access files with ASP.NET C# How to setup DCOM Configuration Settings to use Office Interop Word, Excel, and Access with ASP.NET C# on a IIS Windows Server machine

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If you've stumbled upon this post you're most likely dealing with the Microsoft Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs), also known as Microsoft.Office.Interop library set. This is a neat collection of …

Office Interop DCOM Config on a Windows Server IIS Machine to open Word, Excel and Access files with ASP.NET C# How to setup DCOM Configuration Settings to use Office Interop Word, Excel, and Access with ASP.NET C# on a IIS Windows Server machine Read More
Coding / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / Web

Tabulator 3.x - Download all data from pagination-enabled Table Tabulator is one of the best JQuery UI components for handling tables: here's an hack that allows to download all data from a Tabulator-powered paginated HTML table

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Oliver Folkerd's Tabulator is nothing less than an awesome plugin, which I'm extensively using in all my JQuery-based Web Applications. In a nutshell, it's a lightweight JQuery plugin that allows you to create …

Tabulator 3.x - Download all data from pagination-enabled Table Tabulator is one of the best JQuery UI components for handling tables: here's an hack that allows to download all data from a Tabulator-powered paginated HTML table Read More