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Michael Howard's Web Log

A Simple Software Security Guy at Microsoft!

August 2008 - Posts

SDL and the XSS Filter
Close on the heels of David Ross' XSS defense in IE8 beta 2, my boss, Steve Lipner just posted an article looking at XSS filter from an SDL perspective. While I'm on the subject of XSS and Dave, if XSS is an area of interest to you, you really should Read More...
Overlong UTF-8 Escapes Bite
Every once in a while a security bug pops up that really piques my interest, and a new directory traversal bug that affects Apache Tomcat (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2938) most certainly made me take notice because I haven't Read More...
Matt Miller Joins the Security Science Team!
Good news! Matt Miller, author of plenty of cutting-edge security research, including my fave “ A Brief History of Exploitation Techniques and Mitigations on Windows ” has joined the Security Science team to work on improved ways to find security vulnerabilities Read More...
Security is bigger than finding and fixing bugs
I just wrapped up a post over on the SDL blog with some comments about an article on Google's security work. Read More...
How Very True
http://twitter.com/alexsotirov/statuses/882866444 Read More...
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