Frustrated by a coworker’s use of old-school programming techniques

Saw this article in TechRepublic, and it's pretty good actually.

Though it talks about working with coworkers who code really differently, the human aspect of handling this problem can be just about applied anywhere also.

Vulnerability counting revisited: a hypothetical example

Quoting the article:

The lesson to take from this hypothetical example is that counting vulnerability reports is as likely to lead you to the wrong conclusion as to the right conclusion. Find more information before making a decision. Think through the implications of any metric you have available.

Don’t buy the easy interpretation just because it’s easy.

Link: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=472

Assessment Methodology

Done by hitechpo on House of Hackers blog.

[Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5]

Introduction to reverse engineering

Done by n2u in House of Hackers blog.

[Part 1]
[Part 2]

Cool hack: Man exploits random deposit verification flows to steal $50,000

This is really really impressive, though on a serious note it's not that funny for a system to be so poorly designed and implemented.

Link: http://www.cgisecurity.com/2008/05/12

Click Crime

I seldom write about articles that I read, preferring to share them in my Google Reader or put the link in my Twitter. But I'll make an exception here:

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/471

Mark Rasch gives a very good description on "criminal honeypots" some of it's possible implications worldwide if implemented on a larger scale. The difference between setting up a trap and entrapment is talked about here also.

From the web application security perspective, it would be possible to frame someone else not only by using social engineering, but also even attacks like this:

1. Create javascript code in a site that you control that exploits CSRF weaknesses in the criminal honeypot. Wait for the target to access your site and "click" the link automatically.
2. Create a site that's linked to your target somehow, and get many many people to click on the link (to the criminal honeypot) that you put in the site. The FBI sees the referrals from that site, and traces it to your victim.

[WEB SECURITY] A New Class of Vulnerability in Oracle: Lateral SQL Injection

Hey all,
I've just released some research that demonstrates a new class of
vulnerability in Oracle and how it can be exploited by an attacker. You can
grab the paper from here:

http://www.databasesecurity.com/dbsec/lateral-sql-injection.pdf

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