Posts tagged security

February 18, 2010

Programming mistakes

A top 25 list by Common Weakness Enumeration. XSS takes the top spot, followed by SQL injection and “classic” buffer overflow.

February 17, 2010

Unbreakable encryption

The best tutorial on OTP encryption I’ve ever read.

Totally, completely, 100%, perfect, unbreakable encryption is easy, and I mean really easy. It doesn’t require an advanced education to understand and it doesn’t require powerful computers to calculate. Why isn’t anyone concerned about data privacy using it? It has one minor hitch: the two parties exchanging information must meet in person at least once.

December 3, 2009

Ed Bott’s article on the “Black screen of death” issue

Spot on.

October 18, 2009

Browser Security Handbook

A lesser-known but informative online book by Google.

October 11, 2009

Mikko Hyppönen’s post on why Twitter banned his account. Completely ridiculous when you think about whose account it is.