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What is an executable file anyway?
While this seems trivial, it is a very important question you’ll have to answer if you want to pretend that a whitelisting solution will give you 100% protection. So lets take a shot at it: An executable file is a file which contains machine code intended to be run on the CPU. This looks right,…
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New years resolution for webmasters
Graham Cluley gives some advice on the Sophos blog on how to secure your website. Unfortunately he can’t resist touting the companies horn, rather than suggesting a much more effective solution for this scenario: whitelisting. First of all, files on a webserver need to change very rarely. Executables almost never and it is useful to…