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Log4j New Security Vulnerability and ColdFusion (Critical Zero Day Attack)

December 15, 2021 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

The new security vulnerability Log4j is 10/10 on the “Hacking Richter scale”. How might it be affecting your ColdFusion servers? And what can you do to protect your company? TLDR; This issue affects most servers as Log4j is used by many software tools on modern servers, as well some versions of Adobe ColdFusion. Lucee CFML […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion 2018, Adobe ColdFusion 2021, Adobe ColdFusion Security, ColdFusion Developer, ColdFusion Security

Secure ColdFusion (17 Tools + Best Practices)

October 25, 2021 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Overview of CF Security ColdFusion leads the web dev language pack when it comes to security.  It has the lowest number of security issues of any web language (according to CVE security data). Adobe even has a full time security czar in charge of making the language even more secure.  All the developers on Adobe’s […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion Security, CFML, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Security, Fixinator

4 Reasons Why Your ColdFusion Web Apps Are Suffering (And How To Avoid It)

December 27, 2020 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

4 Reasons Why Your ColdFusion Web Apps Are Suffering (And How To Avoid It)

CIOs and their teams go to great lengths — and expenses — to put together the perfect, pristine web app. Yet things can go awry. Some web apps don’t live up to their potential. Happens in ColdFusion, like any other language. I see it all the time doing my ColdFusion consulting work. These problems become […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion Maintenance, ColdFusion Security, Learn ColdFusion, Server Software

Google Down – An Unprecedented Event (Save Your Data Fast!)

December 21, 2020 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

How many times did you hit “refresh” on Monday? The #GoogleDown, a massive outage among the search giant’s many services, affected many IT systems and websites. Was your company able to navigate the outage easily? Or did you all freak out? Google Down… What Exactly Happened? There’s a way to cover your ass, so to […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion Security, CFML, CFML Open- Source, ColdFusion community, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Development, ColdFusion Maintenance, ColdFusion Security, Server Software

4 Ways to Recognize a Good ColdFusion Consultant

November 6, 2020 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

State of the CF Union 2020

Learn about Four Ways to Recognize a Good ColdFusion Consultant Before Hiring Them!   Looking for the right consultant can be a demanding task. But done right, it could save your company money in the long term.   You’re about to dive into the confounding, cut-throat world of ColdFusion consultants, looking for someone to help […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion 2018, Adobe ColdFusion Security, CF Alive, CFML, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Developer, ColdFusion Development, ColdFusion Maintenance, ColdFusion Security, Modernize ColdFusion, Performance Tuning, Programming Languages Tagged With: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe ColdFusion 2018, ColdFusion, Coldfusion 2020, ColdFusion Consulting

ColdFusion Security Hotfix (APSB17-30) Released

November 5, 2017 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Just last week, Adobe released their security updates (APSB17-30) for ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11. The said update was specifically created to fix two critical and one important issue. However, take note that the ColdFusion 10 and older will be vulnerable to some if not all of the issues. Plus, since the older versions began […]

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4 ways to prevent code death by shelfware

October 28, 2013 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

What is Shelfware? If you don’t get users involved early in the project, you risk ending up with shelfware. That means that you wrote some great code, the operation was a success but the patient died on the table. None of the users want to use the application and it’s left on the shelf.  What […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion Security, ColdFusion Security Tagged With: code death, shelfware, web developing, web development

ColdFusion developer security guidelines

September 25, 2007 By Michaela Light 2 Comments

ColdFusion developer security guidelines from Adobe These ColdFusion developer security guidelines from Adobe are cool! And so much code that I review from other (best unnamed) organizations don’t follow these simple tips. Check it out at at URL below and make sure that your apps are secure! https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb22-22.html  

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