Articles tagged as "security"

How do you measure a cost-benefit for the new security measures or of your liberty? It is hard to even come up with a causal link from the “increased” security measures (ask me about the absurd experience I had in LAX…) to increased safety, let alone quantifying such a benefit.

David Wheeler has put together a set of design and implementation guidelines for programming securely in several languages. The document is actually in a ton of different formats, even ones suitable for Wireless devices. So, take yours with you and learn it well!

I love the quote below and the 15 claims about how shady the Antivirus industry is are great, especially #7, “expect applause when you release hundreds of security patches for your product each year;”

Interesting work and something that I can’t seem to get many people to pay attention to. Not all DoS attacks are bandwidth exhaustion attacks. DoS attacks can be thought of generically as resource exhaustion or suppression attacks. This does not necessarily require using a large amount of bandwidth.

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This scares me as a security professional. This especially scares me as a resident of Washington State.

A post to the IP and Risks lists is a harbinger of things to come as more and more complexity and computer-controlled systems get added to everyday devices without ensuring the same kind of quality and safety engineering. We can only hope that Ford and other car companies will not be successful in overturning laws requiring mechanical connections for safety-critical systems like steering, braking, etc.

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I sure hope so. I have high expectations for Windows 2003. We’ll see how things progress.

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