As most professional developers are fully aware, when you start out building that exciting application for Joe Bloggs Inc, your intentions are always so honourable. You have your UML Diagrams, you have all your classes and libraries planned out and then you start writing. As you churn out your pre-defiened pattern that you lovingly spent hours drafting the client calls you "oh can we change this, and add in that?". The looming prospect of a 'hack' is on the way. Continue reading ‘A hack a day - Is it worth it?’
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- XSSFilter Released - You may have already seen the news about the new XSSFilter in IE8.0 but I wanted to echo it here as well, because it’s a pretty major new release. It does a great job of preventing most of the
- The Government?s Top Hackers? - Popular Mechanics recently published an article about the NSA Red Team, which caught my interest, having been a part of that organization for a short stint back in early 2000. The article does a
- AV Industry on the Run - All too accurate cartoon from Ikarus Security Software, brought to my attention from Dancho Dankev (here), who has become one of my favorite bloggers to read.
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- CitiBank Card Numbers and PINS Stolen in Server Breach - Many years ago, (like ten or more) there was a major US bank (BoA, CitiBank I don’t remember) that had a major security breach. I don’t remember all the details, and Google has been less
- ARDAgent.app Vulnerability Analysis - Apple recently released Mac OS X 10.5.4 with accompanying security updates for 25 vulnerabilities. Notably absent, however, is a fix for the recently brouhaha’d ARDAgent.app local privilege
