Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: Malware

  • Warning: Diigo has been Domain Hijacked – Oct 25 2012

    November 6 2012: After the crisis with their domain hijacking, there are some amazing accounts coming out about what happened. This article on TechCrunch tells quite an incredible story. October 26 2012: @Diigo on Twitter has announced that they are back in control of the Diigo.com domain as of about 5:00ET. The domain update should…

  • URL Shortening is a Growing Security Risk

    URL shortening services are ubiquitous nowadays, and I agree that there are many benefits to having a short link rather than a long and sometimes meaningless URL. However the fact that links to potentially dangerous sites can now easily be obfusticated makes URL shortening a very dangerous thing when put into the hands of the…