Why do websites fail? It’s Not What You Think
I’ve been a programmer for 16 years. During my 16 years, I’ve worked on countless projects for companies ranging from mom-and-pop stores to large enterprise companies like GE and Orbit Irrigation. I’ve been a part of huge success and epic failures. During this time I have seen first hand why websites fail and what to […]
Common Misconceptions Between Programming and Design
We’ve worked with a lot of marketing agencies over the years to fulfill their programming needs. There are many times when there is confusion in the programming process and now and then it causes some tensions. This article is a collection of questions and misunderstandings that we have seen over the years that we thought […]
Cyber Security Risks — HTTP Security Headers and What You Need to Know About Hosting companies
Cyber Security Risks have always been a concern for websites but in the last two years, it has become crucial. With artificial intelligence becoming more effective, the rate of sites being hacked and infected increased and there is no sign of this trend slowing down unless people start taking security seriously. What are HTTP Security Headers? […]
What is Clickjacking?
Clickjacking is an attack that tricks a user into clicking a webpage element that is invisible or disguised as another element. Users think they are clicking on a legitimate element but in reality, they are clicking on something potentially dangerous. Clickjacking is done by displaying an invisible page or HTML element, inside an iframe, on […]
The Ethical Problem of Artificial Intelligence — Has Utah Gone Too Far With Public Safety with their AI initiative?
The state of Utah has given Banjo, an artificial intelligence company, access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. Banjo said they are combining this data with social media, satellites, and other apps to detect real-world anomalies. Banjo is trying to […]
Coping With Terrible Customer Service — How Cytrus Logic is Changing Customer Service in the Technology Industry
Everyone goes through the dreaded scenario, you need something from a company and you call them only to keep pressing numbers to get where you need to be. Worse still, you spend the first two minutes yelling “representative” into the phone. Once you actually get a human being on the phone they put you on […]
Hardening Security Improvements — How to add Security Headers to your Website.
Cytrus Logic regularly does security scans of websites for statistical purposes. In almost 85% of the scans, there are no security headers installed on the sites we scan. These scans allow us to create statistics and create tools and procedures to better protect our clients and their sites from malicious code and exploits. Security headers […]
Website Security Statistics 02/24/2020 — Marketing and Design Agencies
Last week we scanned 300 marketing and ad agency websites using our Website Safeguard technology. The scan was performed as an external scan. The results show a serious problem with the sites scanned. The Scan showed that 35% of the site scanned had critical errors in the following areas: Critical Errors 2% OpenSSL out of […]
Roya Mahboob — inspiring women programmers in Afghanistan
Today I had the pleasure of listening to Roya Mahboob at the Freedom Forum at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City. I had been looking forward to meeting her for some time. She’s become a hero of mine for the work she has done in Afghanistan. While most people see Afghanistan as a war-torn country […]
3 web security reminders from the recent Huawei Indictment
The department of Justice announced yesterday that they have indicted Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets. The justice department said in a statement that The 16-count superseding indictment also adds a charge of conspiracy to steal trade secrets stemming from the China-based company’s alleged long-running practice […]