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Nov 9 - SDL 2008 or bust!

"ESG believes that other ISVs should embrace an SDL model as soon as possible and that enterprise organizations should mandate that technology vendors establish a measurable and transparent SDL process by 2008 or risk losing business."

Nov 7 - JBroFuzz 0.2 Network Protocol Fuzzer Released

JBroFuzz is a stateless network protocol fuzzer for penetration tests. Written in Java (exe also available) it provides a number of generators, as well as basic checks involving SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer/Integer Overflows, as well as Format String Errors.

Nov 5 - 11.3% Vulnerable to SQL Injection

Micheal Sutton experimented with a survey of sites that have a parameter named "id" in the URL. He finds that 11.3% of them cough up a SQL error. "The statistics are significant as they provide evidence of the prevalence of web application vulnerabilities. Coverage of this issue has however been somewhat misleading as reports have suggested that it is a measure of what attackers are doing."

Nov 1 - Don't blame the browser

Client side applications are all intertwined, and a flaw in one may compromise the rest. But don't forget the web applications!

Oct 25 - Michael Howard's advice from OWASP AppSec Conference

Michael argued convincingly for a comprehensive application security education program first, then use of tools, threat modeling, and code review. His presentation and all the rest are on the conference page

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