January 12, 2018 / Comments: 0

How to survive against online cracking tools?

How to survive against online cracking tools? Today, I want to talk about why one needs to be careful when it comes to the login application, why to avoid using outdated hashing methods when authenticating and how to protect against online dictionary and brute force attacks. But sometimes, it's better to look at it from different perspective to get a better picture....

October 12, 2017 / Comments: 0

How to create a login system using PHP and MYSQL?

PHP and MYSQL login system using PBKDF2 Today we are going to create a secure login system using PHP and MYSQL. It will use PBDKF2 hashing method with username as a salt and 100k iteration rounds to authenticate the user. Another feature we will make is to count login attempts and ban the ip address for 10 minutes after a few unsuccessful attempts. We will use...

September 28, 2017 / Comments: 0

How to create a cookie based login system using PHP?

How to create a cookie based login using PHP? In this tutorial we are going to make a basic PHP authentication system using sessions to authenticate and also as an attempt counter that will set a cookie and hide the login screen after a few failed attempts. The script will contain ONE hardcoded user login credentials with BCRYPT hashing method as a form of user...