Disk partition alignment is a best practice . Now that SQL Server wait stats are formally documented & DMVs are available, disk partition alignment may be the best-kept secret related to SQL Server performance optimization. In combination with...

Continuing with my last post on vulnerabilities in web applications due improper use of crypto, lets look at what might happen if you reuse an internal method for encrypting data. Consider a web application that needs to encrypt an application cookie...

Cryptography is used often in web applications. Web sites that use cookie based authentication encrypt and sign the authentication cookie. Query strings are sometimes encrypted to prevent manipulation and also to pass sensitive data from one page to another...