Newbies, don’t upload exploits with your images!
July 20th, 2007 by Sarah KingManuel Lemos from phpClasses.org has written an excellent post about about the risks when allowing users to upload images. It’s not something I’ve done alot but lets say you have a generated image such as this one – with a .php extension. I could upload it to your server and have it served from there – not much use to me because it would fail to update.
The next guy, however, might be uploading a malicious script that might take over your server, send spam etc.
Read his post here: PHP security exploit with GIF images
Docapy and the law of diminishing returns
July 4th, 2007 by Sarah KingI’ve been using a crossword helper for a while, usually when helping my Mother with questions about French Presidents and button collections and Google fails to give me a sensible answer.
The tool I use is at http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/craig/wow.html
They have a little teaser on the page saying What is docapy? Read the rest of this entry »
