September 2006 - Posts
Gary McGraw (CTO of Cigital , and author or co-author of many security books, including Building Secure Software , Exploiting Software and Software Security ) interviewed me a few weeks ago as part of his Silver Bullet Security Podcast series. You can
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You may have noticed that if your code calls functions in the sprintf family and the format template string uses the %n parameter, then it fails to run correctly after it is compiled with Visual Studio 2005. Why? Well, it's pretty simple, by default we
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Today the Visual Studio 2005 team released Service Pack 1 Beta . Included in the beta is the new linker that supports Address Space Layout Randomization on Windows Vista. You can get the update from the Microsoft Connect Site . By default on Windows Vista
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A fascinating read http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm.
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In August I gave a presentation at Gamefest 2006 about secure coding practices and design. You can find the slide deck (and all the other slide decks) here . My presentation is titled "Hardening the Box: The Xbox 360 and Windows Vista Security Models."
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This is a new security book from MSPress that focuses on security testing. I read some of the chapters a few weeks ago, and it's wonderful to add a testing perspective to the world of security. A great deal has been written about security and code quality,
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