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; '''Aug 31 - [http://www.inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=3471 Red, white, and screwed]'''
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: "We've consulted with all the top computer scientists around the United States on the software security issues and they've all told us one thing: 'It isn't currently possible to create technology that is 100-percent secure and trying to do that would be so cost prohibitive"
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; '''Aug 30 - [http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192500179&subSection=Servers Web apps less secure...wait no, more secure]'''
 
; '''Aug 30 - [http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192500179&subSection=Servers Web apps less secure...wait no, more secure]'''
 
: "Web applications tend to be written less tightly than other applications," says Alan Paller, director at the SANS Institute...But because the desktop model really isn't any better, and is in some ways worse, "Security will drive people to centralized applications." (There's a peek into Google's security process in this article - verdict: Distributed!)
 
: "Web applications tend to be written less tightly than other applications," says Alan Paller, director at the SANS Institute...But because the desktop model really isn't any better, and is in some ways worse, "Security will drive people to centralized applications." (There's a peek into Google's security process in this article - verdict: Distributed!)
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; '''Aug 28 - [http://www.sdtimes.com/article/special-20060815-01.html Secure coding initiatives - Verdict: Don't start with tools]'''
 
; '''Aug 28 - [http://www.sdtimes.com/article/special-20060815-01.html 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.
 
: 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 - [http://www.wired.com/news/politics/privacy/1,71622-0.html 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 - [http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/16/HNyahoosecurityplug_1.html 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"
 
  
 
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Revision as of 22:36, 31 August 2006

Aug 31 - Red, white, and screwed
"We've consulted with all the top computer scientists around the United States on the software security issues and they've all told us one thing: 'It isn't currently possible to create technology that is 100-percent secure and trying to do that would be so cost prohibitive"
Aug 30 - Web apps less secure...wait no, more secure
"Web applications tend to be written less tightly than other applications," says Alan Paller, director at the SANS Institute...But because the desktop model really isn't any better, and is in some ways worse, "Security will drive people to centralized applications." (There's a peek into Google's security process in this article - verdict: Distributed!)
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.
Older news...