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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...software plays a critical role in the operation of the Internet. The security of open source software is therefore quite important, as it often interacts with personal information -- ranging from credit card numbers to medical records -- that needs to be kept safe. There has been a long-lived discussion on whether open source software is...
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web servers. A survey of servers running roughly 80 million domain names reveals the web server software...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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A Bitter Pill To Swallow: First Generation CEP Software Needs To Evolve

2008-02-09 03:08:55 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...software vendors and analysts to move beyond the marketing hype and demonstrate real operational value with strong end user success, something seriously lacking today I have advocated this evolution for two years, including the notion of expanding CEP capabilities with proven techniques for event processing that have worked well long before...
 
Tags: cep, cep space, cep softwaremust evolve, real cep capabilities, cep capabilities, real operational cep, cep market, cep software vendors, cep software space
 
 
 
 
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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...software vendors have little economic incentive in churning out a secure product in the current marketplace. Holding a software liable (to an extent) for not making a secure product can not only force the software vendor to fix the problem but also provide economic incentive for the software vendor to make secure product I agree with...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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Good Economist Article on Software Security

2008-03-17 08:54:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...software security, quality. The title was " Software that makes software better The Technology Quarterly is a great read that covers quite a number of new/evolving areas of technology such as improvements in battery design/lifetime, new pico-projectors, and this time a great article about software quality and security The article is a quick...
 
Tags: software, software security, software equivalent, software assurance metrics, technology quarterly series, technology quarterly, security, software quality, technology
 
 
 
 
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A Page from Gregs Diary: Nerwana Software

2008-03-25 12:21:42 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...software companies. They would, for the most part,always come to us, the end users,and try to sell us large software packages. Their sales and technical teams had very little domain knowledge of the problems they claimed they could solve -and they hadlittle doubt that if we purchased their wares, our problems would be solved These...
 
Tags: software, software packages, software companiesare, innovative software, software sales guys, view analysts, operational solutions, analysts, solutions
 
 
 
 
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Software and Security Separateness - You're Doing It Wrong

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2008-05-30 08:55:19 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...software development is another, you are doing both of them the wrong way. I had a coffee with a marketing person yesterday, he had been to my talk at Secure 360 conference and said he liked it because he could understand it, the others were too technical (a lot of stuff in my talk was fairly technical as well, but I always strive to keep the...
 
Tags: software, software-, software security, software security architectures, security, architectures, security properties, centers, strong centers
 
 
 
 
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Awareness in Installing Some Types of Software

2007-08-01 19:14:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...Software Generally considered as some kind of potentially unwanted programs (PUP) by the Internet Security Company (McAFee,) adware and spyware could pause as a menace to original computer owners, web developers, and IT of certain corporations. Advertisements (adware) already included and mainstay of the program could present a threat or...
 
Tags: software, spyware software, computer owners, support adware usage, original computer owners, usage, adware, spyware, adware companies
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary - Part 2

2007-10-23 20:31:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Software and the Infeasibility of Security Metrics." He published a paper and a presentation about it Steve makes what I believe are two major points in this paper Software is brittle, it fails catastrophically Unlike other engineering disciplines, we don't know how to get to certainty about the strength of a piece of software. I won't...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, metrics, software, metrics framework, metric, upstream sdl metrics, concrete metric, paper steve bellovin