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What is the story behind Java Vulnerabilities?
I always appreciated the Java language. It is known as a very secure platform and many banks use it in their web applications.
I wanted to build a project for my school and I discussed the options ...
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Why is it so difficult to make C less prone to buffer overflows?
I'm doing a course in college, where one of the labs is to perform buffer overflow exploits on code they give us. This ranges from simple exploits like changing the return address for a function on a ...
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Security vulnerability and nda's [closed]
I want to propose a situation and gain insight from the communities thoughts.
A customer, call them Customer X has a contract with a vendor, Vendor Y to provide an application and services. ...
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Examining source code for maliciousness and security vulnerabilities
What are some techniques in determining if a particular piece of source code is malicious or vulnerable to malicious attack? I am currently using cppcheck and I am waiting on an install of Rational ...
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What are the security risks/vulnerabilities every C programmer must be aware of?
There are many security risks coming from having close contact to the hardware as opposed to using well-tested and proved APIs from high level programming languages. It is much easier to cause a ...
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Small projects using the cathedral model: does open-source lower security?
We know of Linus' law:
With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow
In general, people seem to say that open-source software is more secure because of that very thing, but...
There are many small ...
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What to do if you find a vulnerability in a competitor's site?
While working on a project for my company, I needed to build functionality that allows users to import/export data to/from our competitor's site. While doing this, I discovered a very serious security ...
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Facebook - Isn't this a big vulnerability risk for users? (After Password Change)
I would like to know you opinions as programmers / developers.
When I changed my Facebook password yesterday, by mistake I entered the old one and got this:
Am I missing something here or this is ...
