Although authorization sounds similar to authentication and a relationship between the two exists, they are not the same and play a different role in the data security process.

In 2021, Broken Access Control moved up from the fifth to the first position in the OWASP Top10. Besides, I did report some serious vulnerabilities to SaaS companies regarding unhandled authorization in the last months.

That's why it is important to know the difference between the two and what else to take care of to protect resources and information from being read or altered by third parties which should be prevented from doing so in order to secure web applications.

When you back up a sd card and attempt to flash the image to a second card, it can happen that you will be greeted by the message "Too small.". This can happen because two sd cards from even the same vendor could have slightly different sizes.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to shrink an image to a specific size so it can fit on a smaller sd card.

MySQL has supported Full-Text Search (FTS) functionality for quite some time. The (FTS) capability was already introduced in MySQL version 3.23.23, which was released in September 2001, and yet I have never used it - until now.

Integration tests are a crucial part of the software development process, ensuring that different components of your application work seamlessly together. The faster the feedback, the faster the release.

So how can we reduce the test runtime to give the engineers faster feedback and improve the CI pipeline when using MySQL or MariaDB?