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MobilityTechnology

What is MBaaS ?

Backend integration is the most complex task in developing mobile applications. When it comes to enterprise mobility solutions, integrating mobile applications with client libraries and its security implications have been the greatest challenges for developers thereby increasing the time to market. Mobile application developers also face some more challenges such as:         Complex […]

Yoosuf
Yoosuf
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AWSDevOpsGrails

Chef recipe to deploy Grails war on a new production server

Chef, a configuration management tool not only brings a lot of functionality to DevOps but can also ease the process of multiple deployments at the same time. A major use case of Chef is to deploy the latest code on your old as well as new production servers. Chef, with its enormously great functionalities, can […]

Tarun Saxena
Tarun Saxena
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Technology

Talend : Passing values from Parent Job to Child Job

In the previous post, I discussed automating content migration process using Talend. As the power of Talend lies with creating meaningful jobs, it solves a particular business problem. More often than not, one job has to talk to another job. Use case: While working on a migration project, I had a use case where I […]

Application Security

Malvertising: The dark side of Advertising

Ever faced a situation when you click on an advertisement, nothing happens and you are just redirected to a random strange website which you do not like or probably, as soon as you click an ad, numerous pop-ups come up and close automatically. There’s a good chance that you might have clicked on a ‘malvertisement’. […]

Nikhit Kumar
Nikhit Kumar
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Application Security

Sleepy Puppy Tutorial : An XSS Payload Management Framework

Sleepy Puppy is a payload management framework for Cross Site Scripting that enables security engineers to simplify the process of capturing, managing, and tracking XSS propagations. Delayed XSS (a variant of stored XSS) Delayed XSS testing is testing that can be used to extend the scope of attack beyond the immediate effect of particular payload. […]

Ankit Giri
Ankit Giri
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AWSTechnology

Auto-Recovery of AWS EC2 instance

You can now Auto-Recover your AWS EC2 instance in the case of failures from Amazon side. Whether it is a hardware problem, underlying host problem or any other problem that occurs from Amazon side to your AWS EC2 instance, the instance can be recovered automatically.  It increases the availability of the instances provided by Amazon to […]

Technology

Setup WordPress using Dockerfile with containers on two different host machines

This blog post describes setting up LAMP stack using containers via docker on different servers. Both the MySQL and Apache docker containers will be hosted on different hosts. We will be using WordPress as the application on the LAMP stack. Use-case The containers will be created using Dockerfile. Dockerfiles are the easiest way to configure images, which will […]

Rahul Jaiswal
Rahul Jaiswal
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AWSTechnology

Selective blocking of curl and wget

Wget is a pretty handy tool that lets users download files from any HTTP/HTTPS or FTP server. Curl, on the other hand is an amazing tool that helps you build a new request with plethora of protocols such as  HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet, SMTP etc. These tools can be used to test protocols or your […]

Gunjan Sawhney
Gunjan Sawhney
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Application Security

Abusing Password reset functionality to steal user data (Part – I)

For every developer, implementing a password reset feature is a very interesting part. This is where he develops a logic and then implements it in the code. There is no well-defined industry standard on how to implement a secure password reset functionality in your application. So, the result is that every application has a different […]

Abhinav Mishra
Abhinav Mishra
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AndroidMobility

mailto links on android devices

Recently we added a feature that uses the mailto link. While testing it was found that working fine on Desktops, iPhones, and iPad’s but not on android devices. To debug it quickly, we created a test page with just mailto link in it as shown below <a href=”mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again” target=”_blank”>Send Mail</a> and then tested this test […]

Technology

Is VOD without YouTube a profitable venture for content owners?

While YouTube continues to gain markets and increase its share in the overall online video content distribution in India, there are voices in the content industry that resonate every single day and talk about a no-YouTube strategy. Creators are talking today about content which is ‘exclusively for web’ or digital but then does it support their […]

Akhil Kakroo
Akhil Kakroo
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Technology

Why businesses should love social media?

Why businesses should love social media? Did you know that there are more devices connected to the internet than there are people on the entire planet? • One out of every seven minutes spent online is on Facebook. • 340 million tweets are sent each and every day. • Pinterest is the social network that […]

Mansi Dawar
Mansi Dawar
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