No site can ever be completely safe — the sheer number of high-profile breaches are a testament to this. But you can follow some best practices to make your site less of a target for a casual malicious actor or automated script.
Moving averages allow you to visualise the price action for a financial instrument over a period of time. It’s widely used in technical analysis. We’ll use PHP and the Trader extension to leverage Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) to detect cryptocurrency market trends.
In this article, we’ll get up and running with the Google Cloud Vision API to detect faces. We’ll be using an existing image and draw a box around each detected face.
Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of text is positive, negative or neutral. The goal of this article is to get you up and running using the Google Natural Language API with Laravel. You’ll be using this API to perform sentiment analysis on text.
There is no excuse to be without an SSL certificate these days. They’re extremely cheap and can even be obtained for free (Let’s Encrypt). Installing an SSL certificate on Laravel Forge is very easy – let me show you how.
There are several serious vulnerabilities in SSL (POODLE, BEAST) and early TLS (min-in-the-middle attacks). The only way to mitigate these security risks, is disabling SSLv3 and TLS 1.0 completely. These protocols should not be allowed as fallbacks on your server either.