Solving The Android Permissions And Malware Puzzle

By Shantanu Goel in Android on 14 Aug, 2010

There has been a spate of security reports recently about Android apps being malware or suspicious. Most of these were found baseless but at least one was indeed correct (e.g. The Russian Trojan app). We also know that Android has a very good security model but even then, the rest of the reports also makes

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Android vs iPhone: Security Models

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Gadgets , Phones on 26 Jun, 2010

Android and iPhone OS (iOS) have been at loggerheads for quite some time now. This is a take on which has a better security model to protect its users. I thought of writing it up because there have been a lot of discussions around me lately about which platform is more secure and I keep

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Migrating From PHP4 To PHP5: Solving WP-Cache (and maybe other) Issues

By Shantanu Goel in Blogging , Hack , Webhosting on 07 Apr, 2008

Situation: You are migrating your WordPress blog from PHP4 to PHP5 (intentionally or being forced to as you web host won’t support PHP4 anymore). Most of the times, this is as simple as adding some simple lines to .htaccess (e.g. AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php ). And you might not notice any issues. But many of you still do.

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