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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...sanity checks in applications looking for something as a simple as a version number may render testing with completely random input ineffective. However, the newer, more complicated fuzz testers require a considerable initial investment in the form of complete input format specifications or the selection of a large corpus of initial input...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...sanity checking it. Integer abuse issues are still very common in code, particular code which is decoding untrusted binary data or protocols. We recommend being careful using any such code until it has been vetted for security (by extensive code auditing, fuzz testing, or preferably both). It is also important to watch for security updates...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 21:52:53 by HASH0x89e6354 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company? (nice roundup of the MS announcements some of the comments are also interesting Comcast AP: Comcast blocks some Internet traffic Ed Brill notes the impact on Notes/Domino traffic cnet post TorrentFreak: Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible P2P Net: Comcast impedes...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 22:52:27 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company? (nice roundup of the MS announcements??? some of the comments are also interesting Comcast AP: Comcast blocks some Internet traffic Ed Brill notes the impact on Notes/Domino traffic cnet post TorrentFreak: Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible P2P Net: Comcast impedes...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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The Austin Project

2008-01-21 22:45:39 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...sanity check on my own thoughts, but here we are, 2 years and 20,000 visitors a day later and things have changed Im ultimately troubled by the fact that there are so many people out there who are in every way smart but are only in web application security because they have fallen into it, for whatever reason, and now are trying to play catch...
 
Tags: people, competent people, project, helps people focus, austin project, austin project web-page, security, web application security, site
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...sanity to the whole system. It is not just the 48 million people in this country that don't have insurance, it is also the costs of the people who do have insurance. Don't tell me that giving us greater limits to put in tax deferred health savings plan are the answer either. Fundamentally we need the insurance companies to stop sucking the...
 
Tags: insurance, health insurance, premiums, employees insurance premiums, insurance company pays, regular insurance, insurance company, care, health care system
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from the car of a First Calgary Savings employee

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2008-05-20 10:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sanity check. In my opinion the letter is one of the best attempts to minimize an information security breach that I have read in some time. The sense that the bank sees nothing wrong with storing confidential customer information on a "password protected" laptop is very troubling. Out of touch with best practices, current news and general...
 
Tags: employee, information, personal information, breach description, breach, information security breach, financial information, confidential information, calgary savings
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...sanity will be restored, but it may take a while This essay originally appeared in The Guardian
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Security Briefing: June 9th

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2008-06-09 11:29:02 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...sanity So, will the iPhone (officially) come to Canada in the WWDC keynote this morning? What say you Vegas Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest And now, the news Security firm asks for help cracking ransomware key | Computer World Revisiting the Safari Vulnerability on Windows | Washington Post A rallying cry against...
 
Tags: security news, news, coffee machine decides, rfid tags, home office website, hans reiser offers, tags, washington post, lead cops