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I'm back from Houston Texas after another great Into the Box conference. Slides for my talk Taming the top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses can be found here....

Today I needed to get the time that a file was created from within some CFML code. I had first thought that cfdirectory or directoryList would return this, but it only returns the date the a file was modified, not the date that it was created....

I will be giving my talk Taming the Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (for ColdFusion Developers) next Tuesday, December 6th 2022 at 1pm US Eastern Time. You will need to register with Adobe to join, it's free....

I've had a several people asking me about the openssl vulnerabilities that were patched this week: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 aka Spooky SSL....

Early bird registration is open for my ColdFusion Security Training deep dive class in December. If you've ever attended one of my conference sessions on ColdFusion Security at Adobe ColdFusion Summit or Into The Box (or even cf....

Someone asked on the CFML slack recently how can you find out how long your ColdFusion (or Lucee) server has been running via code.

How long has the server been running?

createObject("java", "java.lang.management....

CloudFlare recently released a new CAPTCHA service called Turnstile, which aims to provide a better user experience for CAPTCHA's. At the worst case the user will have to click a checkbox, rather than train a machine learning model solving a puzzle....

I'm back from another excellent CFSummit. So many great presentations and conversations. This I gave a presentation on the 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses and how they relate to ColdFusion. My company Foundeo Inc....

Code is complex, so any static application security testing (SAST) tool will find things that may not be an actual security issue. Fixinator has a few different ways we can deal with this problem....

A really handy feature of the arrayEach() function is the parallel argument. It has been supported in Lucee since 4.5, but ColdFusion 2021 now supports it as well....

The uuid() function in MySQL returns a 36 character hex string, formatted as:

aa479ea9-1d9d-11ed-ba03-564760fe47b7

ColdFusion's createUUID() function returns a 35 character hex string formatted as:...

I gave a presentation for the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week Conference today titled: Better CFML Code with CI. You can find the slides for my talk here, and the video here.

Here is a link to the code samples....