What if I told you that unit testing would save you more time in the long run than it takes to implement in the first place?
What if I told you that functional testing would allow you to detect problems ahead of time, before your users even have a chance to see them?
What if I told you that there's a free set of tools to unlock this amazing power?
You'd be amazed, right?
Twitter Bootstrap 3 came out this week, so naturally I decided to kick the tires and share my thoughts on it. I've worked with other CSS frameworks (Skeleton, Bootstrap 2 and Zurb Foundation 3 & 4), so I had an idea of what to expect. I wouldn't say I was blown away by the difference between Bootstrap 2 and this third generation, but it did have some interesting new features that will make things easier for developers and designers.
Well, I'm back from vacation, so it's probably a good idea to post some stuff! Luckily I've got a backlog of interesting links to farm. :)
Last month, Nintendo announced that one of its sites (Nintendo Club of Japan) had been compromised by a brute force login attack. The attackers made 15,000,000 authentication attempts, and successfully took control of 24,000 accounts.
The attack would have failed if Nintendo had implemented login throttling.
Fail2Ban is a Python-based utility that hooks directly into the system's firewall to ban malicious IP addresses, and I'm going to show a few easy steps to make your site safer by blacklisting brute-force attackers. If you maintain a web application that doesn't have built-in authentication throttling, this might be the how-to you're looking for - alternatively, this would work as an additional way to punish pesky rogue connections.
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