February 2007 - Posts

Security Tools for Testers- Part II
18 February 07 10:25 AM | anmolm | 1 Comments   

Welcome to the Security Tools for Testers Part II, in Part I we looked at security tools available for developers which can enable them to indentify security issues upfront in the development cycle. Let’s move up the chain and see what tools testers can Read More...

Filed under: Security Tools

Heaviest spell of February snowfall Sunday since 1990 in my hometown-SHIMLA
16 February 07 12:15 PM | anmolm | 1 Comments   

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/114325.php/Snow-the-white-gold-of-Himachal My friend ashish emailed me some new pictures of shimla covered in white gold this morning. Beautiful is the word. Cheers, Anmol Malhotra Read More...

Filed under: Personal

White Hats and Black Hats battle for Security
15 February 07 07:46 AM | anmolm | 0 Comments   

An excellent video showcasing a security battle between white hats & black hats folks. The code room breaking into Vegas video narrates a story how bad guys hack in to an online casino in Las Vegas & how security guys pitch in for rescue. Cool Read More...

Are your COM+ Proxies secure ??
14 February 07 11:53 AM | anmolm | 0 Comments   

Here is an interesting security issue on COM+ proxies. It is such a biggy in terms of exposure & impact it has on the application. My customer was facing this issue where the generated COM+ proxies had all the source code of the services component. Read More...

Running Multiple ASP.NET applications SECURELY on a single web server
12 February 07 10:33 AM | anmolm | 1 Comments   

Today I am going to talk about some security considerations to keep in mind when hosting multiple un trusted .NET applications on a single Server. Concerns : 1. I am an Internet Service Provider which also offers shared hosting services for clients. I Read More...

Filed under: Application Security