Difference between revisions of "Template:Application Security News"

Revision as of 16:44, 7 July 2006

Jul 7 - PCI update will mandate application security: "Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. will release new security rules in the next 30 to 60 days for all organizations that handle credit card data, a Visa official said this week. The rules will be the first major updates to the one-year-old Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard, which analysts said is slowly but surely being adopted. Extensions are aimed at protecting credit card data from emerging Web application security threats."

Jul 5 - Even Google has application security issues: RSnake writes about XSS, CSRF, and open redirect problems in google.com. "While surfing around the personalization section of Google I ran accross the RSS feed addition tool which is vulnerable to XSS. The employees at Google were aware of XSS as they protected against it as an error condition, however..."

Jul 5 - Just because it's AJAX doesn't mean you don't need input validation: "Google Web Toolkit's conflation of client-side and server-side code is inherently dangerous. Because you program everything in the Java language, with GWT's abstraction concealing the client/server split, it's easy to be misled into thinking that your client-side code can be trusted at run time. This is a mistake. Any code that executes in a Web browser can be tampered with, or bypassed completely, by a malicious user."

Jul 3 - FTC throws Nations Holding into the briar patch: This is an outrage. Companies can now continue to play fast and loose with people's data, safe in the knowledge that their only penalty will be to do stuff they ought to be doing anyway. Thanks FTC.

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 : This is an outrage. Companies can now continue to play fast and loose with people's data, safe in the knowledge that their only penalty will be to do stuff they ought to be doing anyway. Thanks FTC.
-; '''Jul 2 - [http://software.ericsink.com/articles/Four_Questions.html The voodoo economics of code]'''
-: "The six billion people of the world can be divided into two groups: (1) People who know why every good software company ships products with known bugs. (2) People who don't. Those of us in group 1 tend to forget what life was like before our youthful optimism was spoiled by reality.  Sometimes we encounter a person in group 2, perhaps a new hire on the team or even a customer.  They are shocked that any software company would ever ship a product before every last bug is fixed."
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