See how you can tighten security gaps using JavaScript and practices such as the Same Origin Policy, Data Tainting, and Signed Scripts.

Learn how to check message integrity with message authentication and the Java Cryptography Extension.

The Records Center is an important MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) component for companies that need to save critical or legally sensitive information. Discover how to create a Records Center then secure its contents with the MOSS Object Model and one of its default WebServices.

Learn about cryptography and how to encrypt and decrypt data with the Java Cryptography Extension.

The WebLogic Portal provides a highly flexible and customizable security framework. Knowing your options will help you plan the security implementation that is usable, reliable and maintainable.

Discover the basic principles of Application Security and how it relates to various government and industry regulations and standards. Also, learn about internal and external Information Security threats and how to protect systems and applications better.

You need both technical expertise and business savvy to create and maintain a successful streaming media site.

People are building desktop applications for the web that are unlike any web-based application anyone has ever seen before. Adobe is leading this movement with a cross-operating system runtime that enables you to create rich applications that can run either online or offline, when appropriate or necessary.

Use Rails' Active Record validation callbacks to exercise greater control over user input.

Discover a unique approach to implementing anti-virus scanning in your Java applications.

Do you use Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition? One of the 11 areas of vulnerabilities reported this month may effect you.

See how a setup project with a custom action lets the user define the connection string using the Data Links dialog and encrypt that connection string using RSA encryption.

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Learn about file access control lists and how to use C# to read and modify them to improve the security of your applications and your IT infrastructure.

One of the advantages of using object-oriented languages is that much of the error/exception handling is built directly into the language itself. Thus, many of these issues can be handled during the design of the application—and not when the application crashes in the hands of a user.

When things go wrong in an application, what should the code do?

Learn how to use cryptography to improve the security of your applications. Discover the basic building blocks for encryption and hashing using C#.

Compare the economic and technical differences among voice authenticated applications and those using traditional or other biometric methods of authentication.

For long-term Visual C++ developers, the CryptoAPI will be a familiar part of your programming toolkit. If you're developing Windows Vista applications, though, you should be applying the new Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation.

Explore the issues pertaining to duplicating, or cloning, objects.

Explore how you can process the bytecodes produced by the compiler to help you improve performance, security, intellectual property protection, and readability issues.

Security doesn't start with the coding. You must understand and implement security practices in the design stage to security within your applications.

Explore performance and security issues pertaining to serialization of dynamically loaded classes.

Explore the performance gains as well as the security issues pertaining to dynamically loaded classes.

Explore a very basic aspect of security that Java developers should be concerned about at the design level.