Why I Love Hackers

John CraftsGeneral Blog, Web Security Blog

I love hackers, yes hackers. North Korean, Chinese, Russian, Saudi, wherever they may be and whatever they may be doing it for, I love them. I know this may seem like a bizarre position to take, especially as a person who spends a great deal of his time at work making websites, protecting those websites from hackers and cleaning up messes made by hackers that found … Read More

Security News: Adobe Accounts Hacked

John CraftsInformational Blog, Web Security Blog

Last month, hackers got into Adobe servers and released a list of 130 million (and growing) user logins and passwords. These accounts, some active and some inactive, were linked to Adobe products, credit card information, personal names and addresses and a multitude of other customer information. Jeremi Gosney with “Stricture Consulting Group” analysed the password and user information and found that a very large percentage of … Read More

How Do You Know When It’s Time To Update Your Website?

John CraftsGeneral Blog, Informational Blog

It’s been said a million times: “In this day in age, your web impression is one of the most important marketing tools as a business or service provider”, but how do you know when it’s the right time to update your website? Many business like to give their websites a facelift every few years to stay up with the current best web practices and design trends, … Read More

jQuery Fun!

John CraftsInformational Blog, Web Design Blog

So I was playing around with jQuery this weekend and wanted to do something fairly simple. A good hour or so later I was finally able to walk away from the computer comfortably with a completed 4 button navigation that upon click swaps the contents of the div. Each div has a close button so you can go back to the normal state whenever you want. … Read More