According to the published State of the Web 2016 report by Menlo Security, 46% of the world’s top one million sites are ”risky”. The report labelled a website or its background sites (that provide active content to the website) as risky if one or more of the following was true: runs software with known [...]
Posting this year’s list of 1.6 billion breaches, we’re already beginning to think about the task of counting up 2017’s.Below, we’ve listed the most significant events of each month. To view the full list for each month, please click that month’s heading. Note: The total number alongside each month is not definitive; please take it [...]
Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, often fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use. We’ve all heard from ambulance dispatch systems to retail sites, or sites for the electronic submission of tax returns, systems fail as they scale and experience [...]
Having been involved in software testing for some 20 years and witnessed the land-grab for customer attention and market share, the varying mathematical ROI calculations, the year 2000 doomsday forecasters and the rise of the dominant players today, I thought it may be helpful to note a few of the key points to watch for. [...]