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- Aug 29 - Personal data exposed on student loan Web site
- The U.S. Department of Education has disabled its Direct Loan Servicing System, the online payment feature of its Federal Student Aid site, because of a software glitch that exposed the personal data of 21,000 students who borrowed money from the department, said Education Department spokeswoman Jane Glickman.
- Aug 28 - Secure coding initiatives - Verdict: Don't start with tools
- Tools give a warped perspective on software security. They overemphasize stuff they're good at finding, and completely miss critical flaws. Get your people and process aligned on secure coding, and then it will be easy to see which tools really help you.
- Aug 22 - The privacy debacle hall of shame
- "[The AOL screwup] may have been one of the dumbest privacy debacles of all time, but it certainly wasn't the first. Here are ten other privacy snafus that made the world an unsafer place."
- Aug 22 - Yahoo touches application security's third rail - encoding
- "The problem was Yahoo Mail's handling of attachments. By creating an HTML attachment with different encoding schemes, one could have bypassed Yahoo Mail's security filter and executed malicious JavaScript code"
