protection

Protection of data in excel sheet.

How to prevent selection of cell/row and copy/cut of data from excel sheet,created dynamically in c# using SpreadSheetGear. ...

Quick and easy flood protection?

I have a site where a user submits a message using AJAX to a file called like.php. In this file the users message is submitted to a database and it then sends a link back to the user. In my Javascript code I disabled the text box the user types into when they submit the AJAX request. The only problem is, a malicious user can just consta...

Using a randomly generated token for flood control.

Basic setup of my site is: user enters a message on the homepage, hits enter and the message is sent though a AJAX request to a file called like.php where it echo's a link that gets sent back to the user. I have made the input disable when the user presses enter, but there's nothing stopping the user from just constantly flooding like.p...

Protect Files from Git

I'm using Git with WindRiver to manage a project of mine. The code is being managed, however the project files (such as .cproject, .project, .wrmakefile, and .wrproject) are not. However when I switch branches, Git deletes those files spite them being in .gitignore, thereby removing my ability to compile the code without having to revert...

How can I verify a Googlebot

I'm going to block all bots except the big search engines. One of my blocking methods will be to check for "language": Accept-Language: If it has no Accept-Language the bot's IP address will be blocked until 2037. Googlebot does not have Accept-Language, I want to verify it with DNS lookup <?php gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); ?...

Have you used SWF Protector? Flash Protection

Im seeking for some reliable flash obfuscator. Price is also important for me, so Im thinking to buy SWF Protector Made a few testes and as a result: SWF Protector is the only one that breaks Flash Decompilers. Tested protected swf with Sothink and Trillix Decompilers. Both failed to open protected AS3 code. But before buy it I want to ...

Who Uses Software Watermarking?

I'm a PhD student looking at software watermarking techniques and I always get asked 'who uses it?' The answer to which I don't know. There is a large amount of academic work on the subject (most notably from Collberg et al.) but very little indication of it's prevalence in industry. Software watermarking involves embedding a unique iden...

Protecting Applications using online lookup service

Hey All I was just wondering if there is any service available online that allows you to protect your applications by requiring your customers to enter a username and password into your application to activate it and the application looking up those details through this online service? I don't know if this is a real thing, or do I have...

Should I write my own licensing program or are there any good, ready made solutions?

I am going to be developing a desktop application in C++ that I'd like to protect by requiring a license file. My initial idea was to have 2 executables. One would the actual program that I ran some sort of symmetric encryption on and the second executable would decrypt and run the program using a license file on the user's computer. Ho...

password protection while crating .tar file?

Hi , could anyone can give me a solution for protecting my application backup facility with default password internally Am using to create a ".tar.gz" file format by make use of the 'import tarfile'. Is there any object in it to set the password? ...

Good way to assign protected attributes

Easy part: I have model with protected attribute and I have action which can be accessed only by admin, how to force assigning all attributes, so I don't need to do something like this: @post = Post.find(params[:id]) if params[:post].is_a?(Hash) && params[:post][:published] @post.published = params[:post].delete(:published) # delete ...

Tomcat Protect files

dears does anyone knows if tomcat is able to password protect file (like apache .htaccess )? i mean when user request a file from tomcat webapp its prompt a dialogue to enter user-name and password and made this using configuration. or protect the file depend on its IP address . hope someone can help me ? regads ...

Protect website against PHP Curl post method?

Ok, let's suppose we have a form which allows people to post their comments. As you know, "bad people" can spam me with help of PHP Curl easily. How can I protect my website against that not including captcha? Thank you. ...

Ways to protect your software (serials etc)

I'm wondering what is the easiest way to protect the software I write. I'm developing a software package to sell, but don't want people to be able to just install it and use it without paying. The applications are written using C# incase there is any particularly easy way to do this with the .Net framework. I'm asking more as an in...

How to protect the webpage

web pages running on the localhost, if i copy the web page link (address link), then copy to the another tab or browser, it should not open, it should display a Login Page. For example, web pages are Login.aspx Account.aspx Once Login, account page will open, then copy the address link, then try to open in another tab or browser. It ...

Protect flash files

Hello, I would like to protect my flash files. I would like to block any decompilers,protect actionscript and also protect graphics. Some time ago,I tried to decompile a swf and when I placed it inside a decompiler , it showed me a login form and no graphics.I believe that is the ultimate protection method.Do you have any idea what softw...

How to make sure PHP Scripts are only used on one machine by a client?

Hello all, I have a set of PHP scripts sitting on several clients servers and I want to get the mac address for that server so that I can store it and determine that the PHP scripts are not being used on another server. How can I get the Mac address of a computer using PHP somehow? Is there a better way to determine if the PHP scripts...

How to protect my self-hosted website/system?

I am currently creating a .NET based (website/system) solution for small IT companies and I am offering it in a self-hosted package, which means my clients are going to mainly install it on their own servers. How do I make sure my system is not being run except on one server per client and no body is illegally-copying it to other server...

'Microsoft.SharePoint.MailMessage' is inaccessible due to its protection level

'Microsoft.SharePoint.MailMessage' is inaccessible due to its protection level On this code: MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); mail.From = "[email protected]"; mail.To = "[email protected]"; mail.Subject = "Testing Code"; mail.BodyText = what; mail.Priority = MailPriority.High; Smtp.Send(mail, "smtp.xxxxx.edu"); How can remidy this...

How to protect my .net winforms assembly from customers of a customer.

This question appears to have died, so I've decided to offer a bounty. What I'm most interested in knowing is if my scenario in the ETA1 below is viable and is used. If it isn't, then a good explanation of why not would be a good answer. Another good answer would be an alternative (but not including the internalsvisibleto attribute). T...