These days it’s really common you have to validate a credit card when creating an account. iTunes, Android and Zune marketplace all ask for it for example. These validators all do a simple check if the numbers enter conform to the Luhn formula (also known as MOD10). So even a random set of numbers that [...]
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Password management with Keepass and Dropbox
If you aren’t actively doing any password management right now is a good moment to start with it. You know, I was like most people. Using a set of four or five passwords used for anything; whether it was e-mail, ftp, Paypal or social and website accounts there wasn’t much variation. Yeah I read all [...]
Be safe, protect your WordPress blog
WordPress is by default a secure CMS to use for your blog but there are a lot of easy to implement tweaks that will increase the security even more. In this article i’ll try to explain the most common security issues and how to solve them. Implementing them should only cost you about 15 minutes [...]
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