Is your data secured? Are you confident that the prying eyes of your competitors can't view sensitive information being stored on or transmitted from your applications? Are you sure that the data you receive from vendors and partners was actually sent by them?...   Read Article.

Many applications (Web-based applications and forms-based ['smart client'] applications) typically use data stored in a database. While you may have firewalls and other protections established when running your application, your application can still be open to an attacker gaining direct (or indirect) access to information in your database....   Read Article.

Nowadays it's quite common for us to write server-based applications. These apps differ from desktop applications in many ways - one of the most important of which is how they handle security. For a desktop application, security is easy. The application runs in the security context of the user who loaded it. Whatever the user has rights to, the desktop...   Read Article.

The release of the .NET Framework 2.0 promises to be the first major upgrade to Windows and Web development tools since the initial release of .NET in 2001. In the realm of general networking, some of the major improvements to the Framework include FTP, Ping, packet tracing, and revised SMTP/MIME classes that are not dependent on the Windows SMTP service....   Read Article.