Anigel blogs

Whilst many people were looking at the Brit awards last night, a different top list has also been released.  Instead of counting up the awards for artists, it was counting up the risk and impact of common development errors

The top 5 include

• Cross site scripting
• SQL Injection
• Buffer overflow
• Cross site request forgery
• Improper access control

All of these issues have been known about and well understood for some time, however developers are still regularly making mistakes in these and the other top 20 areas.

Click here to read more.. »

Today is European Safer Internet Day 2010. If this fact has passed you by, then you are not alone as it does not seem to have been publicised much at all.

The stated aim is to encourage safe and responsible use of online technology and using mobile phones, which is an aim I can certainly agree with, having a young child who is currently learning about email in school.

The theme this year is “Think Before You Post” and I am sure that there are many more experienced folks as well as the children and young people who the day is most aimed at, who have forgotten to do this now and again. I personally have made the mistake of forgetting to remove an address from the CC field of a less than complimentary email I intended for internal eyes but unintentially delivered to the people who had contracted the services of the company discussed in the email.

So if you are a seasoned internet hand, or someone new to the internet and mobile technologies, take a minute to “Think before you post”.

www.saferinternetday.org has all the details.

It may not be the most highly publicised day in the digital world, but today is the 4th Annual European Data Protection Day. The 28th January 2010 marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the protection of personal data (Convention 108), the first legally binding international instrument in the field of data protection.

Take this chance to make sure your staff are up to date with any data protection or processing policies you may use in your location and if you do not have any then you may want to start to investigate implementing one.

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) press release

I have finally got round to starting my technology blog.

For ages I have kept meaning to set up a blog for technology, systems and infrastructure stuff. It seems that now I have less free time as I have started working again, I have finally found the time to get it sorted.