Posts about Security

Why I never will use bitcoins

I’ve followed the development of bitcoins for a while and I’ve from the start avoided getting involved (i.e. using bitcoins). I don’t think that there is…

Emailing passwords is no proof of storing passwords as plain text

There is a site named plaintextoffenders.com which lists sites which they claim store plain text passwords, i.e. not hashed or encrypted. As proof they let…

Solved: Getting 401 Unauthorized while calling an ASMX service using Windows authentication

Today I’ve spent almost the whole day figuring out why an application (COM+) couldn’t authenticate against an ASMX web service. Using my favorite networking…

ASP.NET MVC3: Custom error for 401 Unauthorized

Have you tried to display a custom error message if authorization fails..

A more structured MembershipProvider

If you take a look at the official documentation that tells you how to create your own custom MembershipProvider you’ll notice that the documentation is…