Facebook stock closes nearly flat in debut

In this image provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)It was barely a “like” and definitely not a “love” from Facebook investors as the online social network’s stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday.

Reddit.com: Protecting against attack?

In this recent post to Reddit.com, the question of application security is asked – the poster wants recommendations on how he should keep his app safe from would-be attackers:

Facebook’s IPO one of world’s largest

A Facebook log is displayed on the screen of an iPad, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in New York. Facebook's initial public offering is one of the most hotly anticipated in years. The company is likely to have an estimated market valuation of $100 billion when its shares begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Friday. (AP Photo/James H. Collins)In one of the largest initial public offerings of stock ever, Facebook said Thursday that it is raising at least $16 billion for itself and its early investors in a transaction that values the world’s definitive online social network at $104 billion.

Beginner PHP Tutorial – 112 – phpMyAdmin Part 3

Improving the ASLR of Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Last week I presented my research about “Adding ASLR to jailbroken iPhones” at the Power of Community 2010 (POC2010) security conference in Seoul. During my talk I explained how one can use a modified ‘rebase’ utility to rebase the dynamic linker dyld on the iPhone. Rebasing dyld is important because it contains enough code gadgets that can be used to kickstart arbitrary shellcode on jailbroken iPhones. A tool called Antid0te will be released until the end of this year that allows normal users to add ASLR to their iPhones. The release of this tool was originally planned for 24th December 2010 but it had to be postponed because I got really ill and also my glasses broke.

Marcus Bointon’s Blog: Compiling wkhtmltopdf on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Marcus Bointon has written up the process he took to get the PHP extension for Wkhtmltopdf (a conversion tool for HTML to PDF generation) up and working on a Mac OSX machine – not as easy a task as it sounds.

PHP Tutorial: Password Encryption with MD5, SHA1, and Crypt -HD-

Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears

Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger.

PHPMaster.com: Using SPL Iterators, Part 1

On PHPMaster.com today there’s a new tutorial posted, the first part of a series, looking at the use of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) in PHP. In this first part of the series, Stefan Froelich looks specifically at two of the more common uses for iterators – working with arrays and directories.