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Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion (More Secure Than Ever)

November 29, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

With the modernization of Adobe ColdFusion, we are witnessing some major improvements in many fields. Security is just one of many. Auto Lockdown features, Containerization and many more are visible as well. Let’s dive in and see what make CF modern and reliable.     Security Security concerns are an important part of any programming […]

Filed Under: CF Alive Book, ColdFusion 2018, Security

No-Nonsense November: Ongoing Security Alert for Legacy Coders

November 15, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

I told you so. That’s probably the worst thing someone can say to you. Especially when it comes to security. Many times over, I have preached the importance of staying up to date with the latest security patches and upgrades. This is for one big reason. The bad guys are always one step ahead. As […]

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CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich Part Four- ORM–Love it or Hate it?

October 30, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Hello and welcome back once again to our series, CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich! Throughout the series, we have been discussing hot ticket items that will be discussed at this year’s upcoming CF Camp, the only CF conference in Europe. Today, we will be talking about ORM–or Object Relational Mapping. Often dubbed as the […]

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Top 5 Security Issues Solved with Adobe ColdFusion 2018

October 19, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

The Conficker Worm of 2008 In 2008, The Conficker worm program (also known as the Downadup worm) replicated itself across computers around the world and is still alive to this day. It turns your computer into a spam machine and monitors your sensitive information through keystroke logging. This info is then sent back to its […]

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Everything CF Summit 2018: Securing Mature CFML Codebases

September 14, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

From 2012 to 2013, vulnerable Adobe ColdFusion servers fell under attack by hacktivist group Anonymous including allegedly British hacker Lauri Love. Operation Last Resort, as it was named by Anonymous, affected many government servers including those of NASA, the US Army, and the Federal Reserve. How was all of this achieved? Love and Anonymous employed […]

Filed Under: Adobe CF Summit East 2018, ColdFusion 2018, Security

How One Company Improved Their ColdFusion Security (From Datanapped to Safe)

June 22, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

One day a company much like yours -let’s call them “The Company”- called us to get our help with a serious problem. Someone had hacked into to their ColdFusion server and encrypted all of their important data files. Subsequently, The Company received an email asking for $100,000 to decrypt these files. The Company had been […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion, Security Tagged With: ColdFusion code

ColdFusion Security Hotfix (APSB17-30) Released

September 24, 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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020 Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code, With Pete Freitag

May 2, 2017 By Michaela Light 1 Comment

Pete Freitag talks about “Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Pete is the founder of Foundeo, creator of FuseGuard and HackMyCF and he is a ColdFusion security expert.  Episode topics Why should you care about security in your CF code What is the most common misconception […]

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Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

October 21, 2008 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

  SQL Injection can damage your website’s data and spread to other sites in your organization. This article explains how it works and how you can prevent it. Exploited vulnerabilities: A SQL Injection attack relies on the someone sending an HTTP request (web site visitor) being able to add SQL commands to a URL or […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion, Security, SQL

ColdFusion developer security guidelines

September 25, 2007 By Michaela Light 2 Comments

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! http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/dev_security/coldfusion_security.pdf

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