Excellent specific tips for foiling hackers

I'm very glad you emphasized that firewalls are useless against attacks targeting web applications. These days, those kinds of attacks represent around 75 per cent of all hacker attacks. It's a very vulnerable, target-rich environment. At boonbox.net, we're constantly trying to instill a sense of the depth of the problem and offer solutions for potentially vulnerable websites (Read more about that at http://www.boonbox.net/devfense.htm). But there is definitely a lot of things average, non-IT experts can do to improve security. Again, great article.

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