• Application vulnerabilities still a top security concern

  16.05.2013

  Respondents to a new (ISC)2 study identified application vulnerabilities as their top security concern.

• The importance of secure coding

  07.05.2013

  Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security.

• Majority of web apps vulnerable to most frequent exploits

  26.04.2012

  84 percent of web applications from public companies were deemed unacceptable when measured against the OWASP Top 10 most frequently exploited web application vulnerabilities, says security testing firm Veracode in a feature supplement of its annual "State of Software Security Report".

• Injection attacks tutorial

  09.02.2011

  This episode of the OWASP appsec tutorial series describes the #1 attack on the OWASP top 10 - injection attacks.

• Breaking web browsers

  26.10.2010

  In the video below, Jeremiah Grossman, the founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, talks about breaking web security.

Spotlight

IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it

Posted on 15 May 2013.  |  Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.

Is Microsoft is reading your Skype communications?

Posted on 15 May 2013.  |  The question of whether Skype allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications exchanged by its users has still not been adequately answered by Microsoft.

Internet Explorer best at blocking malware

Posted on 14 May 2013.  |  While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly, Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%.

Researcher refuses to help Saudi telco to spy on people

Posted on 14 May 2013.  |  You would think that a Saudi Arabian telecom firm interested in monitoring its users' mobile communications would not be asking a well-known pro-privacy researcher for help, but you would be wrong.

Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts

Posted on 13 May 2013.  |  Facebook users - especially those in Brazil - are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft.