How someone temporarily took over my subdomain

How an old DNS record set up my subdomain to be occupied by someone else.

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 21, 2024 • 4 min read

AWSCloudDNS

Backing up my life with a Synology NAS

Data in a public cloud is out of your control, that's why I decided to create my own private cloud in my office.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 23, 2024 • 12 min read

SecurityNASSynology

Disabling paste in textboxes is not a security feature

This common, and annoying, pattern on many government and financial websites causes more problems than it solves.

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 3, 2023 • 11 min read

HTMLSecurityAccessibility

Securing persistent environment variables using Vercel (formerly Vercel)

The way to securely add environment variables to your Vercel isn't obvious. Here's how to do it.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 3, 2019 • 5 min read

VercelSecretsEnvironment Variables

Book review: The Tangled Web

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 17, 2012 • 3 min read

Book ReviewsSecurity

Wanted: Dynamic execution contexts in JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 26, 2010 • 6 min read

JavaScriptSecurityXSS

Towards more secure client-side data storage

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 13, 2010 • 8 min read

JavaScriptlocalStorageSecurity

Cookies and security

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 12, 2009 • 9 min read

CookiesHTTPJavaScript

Bad security decisions

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 10, 2007 • 2 min read

ProgrammingSecurity

Security vs. usability

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 19, 2007 • 3 min read

InternetSecurityUsability

Now That's Security!

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 17, 2006 • 2 min read

ING DirectInternetSecurity

Tabbed Browsing – Security Risk

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 20, 2004 • 1 min read

FirefoxInternetSecurity