Your Information Leaked?

Below is a good site which you can use to check whether your data was compromised in any data breach happened. This is free for personal use but for enterprises they can pay and use the service.

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

The site is the work of an Australian security researcher who is a Microsoft regional director named Troy Hunt. He is also a MVP and an internationally active speaker in web security space. 

Error Accessing Path

Today is a day full of errors, when I fixed one error another error came while trying to run my hosted application. This time it was “Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\……’ is denied.

Full error is as follows,

Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Mining2 Setup\Images\temp\tempImage.png' is denied.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Mining2 Setup\Images\temp\tempImage.png' is denied.

The issue here was generated by a code written in my application which tries to access an image named tempImage.png in the said folder (Images\temp).

The reason for this is when you install IIS 7 the account used by the application pool (IIS_IUSRS) is not given access to the folder Images\temp. Since it is created by the application I just installed.

To sort out the issue give write permission to the folder Images\temp for the account IIS_IUSRS using the security tab in the folder properties page.

Protect HTML Files

Recently I came up with a requirement to protect a website which was created using HTML.

When searching over the internet a team member of mine found a nice software called HTML Guard.

This software is encoding the source of the site so the users will not be able to see the code behind the site. Using this tool you can even block a site to a particular domain. Even the site is downloaded it will not properly run.

The best thing is this has a free version so we can use the full set of features without paying (A small message will come on the top right corner saying the site is encoded by using the tool).

This software is by WulfSoft, thanks guys you have done a good job.

Try out yourself and see.

http://www.htmlguard.com/