Apt InfoSec

HTML5 was released in 2014 and is the current major version of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).  HTML is the language that your web-browsers  to present content on the web.  One of the important features in HTML5 is the increase in the increase in the number of input fields formally supported and the accompanying browser support for these fields. These new input types include email, tel, number, date, time, and color among other types.  The accompanied browser functionality includes custom keyboards/input options and local input validation for the input values.  Best of all the new input types are backwards compatible with browsers that do not support HTML5.  If a browser does not support a given input type the default behavior is to treat the field as a text input type.  Developers can implement the newer input types with the knowledge that unsupported browsers will fail gracefully. The biggest benefit for end users is the increase in ease of u...

I would like to invite everyone to my newly founded information security blog.  I have been thinking about launching a blog for a few years and finally decided to pull the trigger.  I believe this blog will be mutually beneficial to my readers and myself.  The main goal of this blog is to serve as motivation for myself to increase my knowledge in this extremely wide field and create an obligation to write articles.  I am planning on focusing on Information Security topics, but will occasionally write about other topics. A little bit about myself and my background.  I have a strong formal education background.  I also have over a decade of experience in  Information Technology and Information Security ranging across planing and designing IT deployments, system administration, vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. Please feel free to comment on this and any future post.  I would like to create a strong community aro...