PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) was launched

On 31st January PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) was launched. " Founded in January 2005, the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards." [about] The website has a simple design, common to wikki style. You can see it just has launched: 1 article (Using PEAR's Text_CAPTCHA to Secure Web Forms, by Marcus Whitney), 1 project (PHP Security Guide 1.0 (English) HTML,docBook Lite [soon will be available as pdf]. Today is 6th feb. and still no update since 31st jan... I printed the security guide to study it, that caused my printer to run out of paper, I'll have to buy some more...

Securing a MySQL Server on Windows

Many users that install mysql database server, skip the process necesary for securing it. There are many users that still allow root login from any host (%), maybe still have a valid user login with no password. Here is an article from MySQL about Securing a MySQL Server on Windows