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| + | : Yet another pointless article discussing whether open-source or closed-source is more secure. The truth is that your application should be secure even if an attacker has the source. If you're using a source code control system (and you absolutely should), there are copies of your code all over the place. So get over it - secrecy isn't a countermeasure. | ||
; '''Jul 11 - [http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/research/author_page.jsp?ID=E6175864177D44AD Yankee predicts AAP to replace WAF]''' | ; '''Jul 11 - [http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/research/author_page.jsp?ID=E6175864177D44AD Yankee predicts AAP to replace WAF]''' | ||
Revision as of 00:01, 12 July 2006
- Jul 12 - Source code secrecy not a countermeasure
- Yet another pointless article discussing whether open-source or closed-source is more secure. The truth is that your application should be secure even if an attacker has the source. If you're using a source code control system (and you absolutely should), there are copies of your code all over the place. So get over it - secrecy isn't a countermeasure.
- Jul 11 - Yankee predicts AAP to replace WAF
- In a report titled, "Application Assurance Platforms Arise from Web App Firewall Market’s Ashes," Yankee projects overall product revenue in the evolving AAP market to grow to $230 million by 2009. AAP's are predicted to combine the web application firewall, database security, XML security gateway and application traffic management segments.
- Jul 10 - Even two-factor authentication can be spoofed
- "The site asks for your user name and password, as well as the token-generated key. If you visit the site and enter bogus information to test whether the site is legit -- a tactic used by some security-savvy people -- you might be fooled. That's because this site acts as the "man in the middle" -- it submits data provided by the user to the actual Citibusiness login site. If that data generates an error, so does the phishing site, thus making it look more real."
- Jul 7 - Who's changed their process?
- "All software has security defects," insists Michael Howard, senior security program manager at Microsoft. "You either do something about it, or you don't...What worries me is how little attention [software] vendors are paying to this. I know of nobody else who has changed their process."
- 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."
