Whether you want to restrict data inputs, ensure consistency, or avoid errors, data validation in Microsoft Excel is the tool for you. It can also serve as a vital safety net if you plan to share your ...

Input validation is the single best defense against injection and XSS vulnerabilities. Done right, proper input validation techniques can make web-applications invulnerable to such attacks. Done ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

Writing code to validate Web-form input can be even more of a chore than implementing form-processing logic. But help is at hand, thanks to the Struts 2 framework. Oleg Mikheev looks under the hood of ...

Whenever I write an advanced PowerShell function or script that uses parameters, I find it very helpful to validate any data upfront before my script gets too far. The last thing I want is my script ...

Ruby on Rails fixed six vulnerabilities in versions 3.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and Rails 5.0 beta and three in rails-html-sanitizer The Ruby on Rails team released versions 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, and 3.2.22.1 of ...

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...