While I’m currently writing the next part of my “A look into sessions and security” series, I couldn’t help to take some time to write on how fast…

In the first article of this series we explored the concept and theory behind sessions. Now that we understand what a…

Accidents that are no accident at all

You might have seen this story recently published by the Independent, on how a man has…

In my second article we’ve seen how to set up a session in a way that improves it’s security. We’ll now take a look at a few issues about access, storage and meta data.

Part #0: The concept (You’re here!)
Part #1: The setup
Part#2: Storage, Access and Meta Data
Part #3: The Score approach
“Final” Part: Eternal sessions of the clueless user

In the fourth article of this series we talked about how to use a score-based approach to minimize false occurrences. Now it’s time to talk about… time.

In the third article I’ve reached the conclusion that the most important concepts when thinking about secure sessions are Coherence and Validity. I’ve also touched a very delicate point when dealing…

I’ve been using Zend Framework 2 for quite a while now and it is, hands down, my favourite PHP framework. It implements nice, “new” concepts (such as…