Security Briefs

For those who didn't attend PDC, the Zermatt identity framework has been re-code-named Geneva Framework so that it fits in with the Geneva family of products:
Geneva Framework: a .NET class library...

I have been a happy customer of Wells Fargo for a couple of years now, but one thing has always bothered me: being solicited by loosely affiliated companies. Well, I finally found out how to fix th...

Chris Sells used to poke fun at me when we worked together in my former life. He used to call my security class, "Essential Access Denied". His point was a good one: when they aren't applied carefu...

I've been rather dark over the last couple of months as I helped to finish up Pluralsight's online training offering, Pluralsight On-Demand. I'm psyched that we finally shipped! Be sure to check it...

I've always looked at security questions used to automate user password recovery with quite a bit of skepticism. What's the point of requiring strong passwords if you allow anyone to reset the pass...

I'm about to embark on a mission to get Zermatt integrated into pluralsight.com as our single-sign-on solution, and a big part of that is getting our Community Server installation wired into that. ...

We've worked with Kevin in our past lives at a previous training company, and we're glad to say that he's joined us as a Pluralsight instructor. Located in the United Kingdom, Kevin will be helpin...

Executive summary: ValidationSummary controls look at the ErrorMessage field to figure out what to display, so always use ErrorMessage in a verbose enough way that it will be helpful from a Validat...

I just spent about 15 minutes debugging a problem where a document was getting unexpected nulls where empty strings should have been. Indeed controls like the TextBox have code in them that allows ...

It's surprising that XmlDocument isn't marked [Serializable], because it's very natural to serialize one into a stream. I wanted to put an object into ASP.NET ViewState the other day, and quickly r...