ASP.NET sites under attack {0}

Hackers are in the midst of a massively successful SQL injection attack. All of the attacks are built on Microsoft’s ASP.Net platform. 180,000 web pages have been affected. The hackers plant malicious JavaScript scrips onto web pages that causes the browser to load an iframe with remote sites. From there, the iframe plants malware on [...]

Applications of Database Development to Gene Ontology {0}

The Gene Ontology database is essentially a tool that those involved in the field of molecular and cellular biology utilize in order to both obtain information as well as share it amongst peers in an open community. The database located at http://www.geneontology.org/ contains an organized structure of genetic vocabulary, classifications, and information for those involved [...]

Things to know about Web.Config inheritance and Overrides in ASP.NET {0}

Galloway gives readers tips regarding that curious thing in Visual Studio that says web.config whenever you start a new blank web page. Tip 1 is about  using the config in subfolders and the laws of inheritance. In this case parent config are that aren’t over written are general and the child configs are generally small. [...]

ASP.NET Web Forms versus MVC Framework {0}

Web developers have a choice between using ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET Model-View-Controller. ASP.NET Web Forms is an older but faithful option for developers to work with in creating websites. The Model-View-Controller is essentially a newer way for developers to structure their design patterns by dividing an application up into more concise areas of focus. [...]

Visual Studio 11, ASP.NET 4.5, and ASP.NET MVC 4 {1}

ASP.NET 4.5 Soon to be Released According to this article web developers will see the next version of Visual Studio (11), ASP.NET (4.5), and ASP.NET MVC (4).  The article talks about the never features of the software and how if you’re using the Web Application Template project, the content for the default.aspx page, has become [...]

Health Care Security Issues Emerging {1}

The article I chose for this week is “Wireless Tech Makes Health Care Security a ‘Major Concern’” by Antone Gonsalves. The article addresses that medical equipment has advanced so much so fast, that the security that protects those new technologies has lagged. Gonsalves points out that “While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the [...]

Being a DBA {1}

For this week, I found an article on ProQuest titled ” Database Administrator”. This article gives you a good idea on what a database administrator does. DBA’s are responsible for storing, managing, and organizing data. As a DBA you work with software and find ways to do all this. Other tasks that must be performed [...]

Amazon Web Services Announces New ASP.Net Services For Developers Worldwide {0}

This article simply talks about what Amazon has recently announced about their implementation of a new service for Windows developers along with the launch of their new database services for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.Net support of their proprietary cloud service known as Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon RDS purpose is to remove the complexity of deploying [...]

MS Windows Azure Cloud Platform {0}

In a peer reviewed article on the Faulkner Information services, the author Brady Hicks talks about Microsofts Cloud Platform Windows Azure. This is Microsoft;s entry into cloud computing and also a platform on a service technology. It became available in 2010 and is stored and run from Microsoft’s datacenters. Technologies in the Azure platform is [...]

Web apps load quicker with new upgrade to ASP.Net MVC {1}

The article I read this week was about how Microsoft is upgrading (or already has upgraded) its ASP.Net MVC software. This software enables development of web applications through the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. Microsoft is adding mobile web functionality and capabilities for creating web apps that load quicker. The beta release will be included in the [...]

ASP.NET DoS Vulnerability {2}

There has been controversy over recently a discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web development platform. A new exploit code has emerged and been published online, increasing the risk of potential attacks on users. The patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was first announced last December at the Chaos Communication Congress, Europe’s largest and oldest hacker conference. “This [...]

ASP.NET is a double edged sword {1}

This article is about how exploit code was now being used to hack websites that use the Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development software.  It problem is identified as “CVE-2011-3414″ and was given out by the Chaos Communication Congress.  They describe the attack to be able to consume all of the web server’s cpu usage.”  This means [...]

Facial Recognition Database {1}

The authors talk about the growing interest in facial recognition databases and how they feel the databases currently being studied by researchers do not mimic real world scenarios. Researchers should take into account that lighting may not be ideal for a clear image, or that the subject may be moving or looking in a direction [...]

Parallelism as the Future of Database processing {1}

The article is called the High Performance Database Processing. Since databases are growing at a very rapid rate, the sizes of the databases in the future are going to be unmanageable when it comes to processing. With large volume of data, sequential processing is not going to be efficient. The article gives an example of [...]

Visual Studio 11 {3}

The article that I read was about the new features for Visual Studio 11. The first new feature that visual studio 11 has is that it will allow for backwards compatibility between visual studio 10 and 11. This means that if you have projects that you did in visual studio 10 and wanted to upgrade [...]

Having One Big Database Could Be Beneficial for the Music Industry {3}

In this article, the author talks about how it could make things much easier if there was one big database for the music industry. Currently there are several databases for music, and it is causing a lot of trouble. The author mentions how the copy right issue is so complicated because there are several databases. [...]

What to do With Too Much Data {2}

In the article, the author discusses how the modern database often extends beyond a few hundred entities; modern day companies regularly are wading through terabytes of information, trying to drag useful & meaningful context out of massive loads of information. Several massive problems are brought up – searching through the data is tedious and yields [...]

ASP.Net using servers {1}

Microsoft Active Server Pages also known as ASP was first released in 1996 and has provided web developers with a rich and complex framework for building web applications. But since 1996 ASP has evolved greatly and has improved a lot. ASP is still known but they have now renamed it ASP.NET. It is a framework [...]

Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks {2}

The Article by Paul Ian “Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks” was a great article which listed several types of uses and purposes for Cloud Computing. It listed many different uses for cloud computing  and how they can be utilized for your everyday life. Cloud computing is a tool that is very useful for [...]

ASP.NET DoS Vulnerability {1}

Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development platform had its vulnerability, CVE-2011-3414, patched. The “vulnerability could allow an anonymous attacker to efficiently consume all CPU resources on a web server, or even on a cluster of web servers,” according to Suha Can and Jonathan Ness, who are Microsoft Security Response Center engineers. An anonymous user, HybrisDisaster, “published a [...]