Archive for August, 2009

Hackers target websites. Why?

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Production-Safe Website Scanning Questionnaire

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Regularly released until year end

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Aug. 28)

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Regularly released until year end

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Aug. 21)

We have recently observed that attackers are actively exploiting new movie releases to distribute malware. The general practice is to host a blog on a (relatively) reputable site, which in actual fact redirects users to a malicious website hosting malware

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Free Online Movie Blogs Serving up Trojan for Windows and Mac

Recently, Twitter implemented technology to help stem the threat of malicious URLs being propagated though its service.

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Twitter Filter Aimed at Killing Malicious Links

It seems someone has it in for Delphi. Or at least older Delphi environments and programs compiled using them. As has been reported, there is a threat on the loose that targets Delphi development environments, specifically versions 4 through 7

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Delphi Falls Prey

The fraudsters are constantly coming up with innovative ways to deceive innocent users of the Internet.

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Email Client Fraud

Update: 09.03.2009 : ” Production-Safe Website Scanning Questionnaire ” posted to add context to the chart and ensuing discussion. Also, new vendors have been added to the sheet. Update 08.24.2009 : Billy Hoffman (HP) and I have been having some email dialog about the production-safe heading

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Website VA Vendor Comparison Chart

If today’s Web security challenges are to be overcome, then scalability is what we need. Scalability of people, scalability of process, and scalability of technology. The holy trinity of all IT solutions.

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Web Security is about Scalability

Many years ago I worked in the network router business. Back then, as a product manager, I wrote datasheets. Yeah, exciting stuff, but you have to start somewhere.

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Not all Security Vendors are Created Equal