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AI Software Design Security and Language Choice

Or, rather, the quality of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated software in general but it goes for security as well, naturally, since security and quality are but the two sides of the same coin. Software engineers happily embraced the wonderful possibility of being able to program in a natural language – describing the task to ...

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Worst languages for software security

I was sent an article about program languages that generate most security bugs in software today. The article seemed to refer to a report by Veracode, a company I know well, to discuss what software security problems are out there in applications written in different languages. That is an excellent question and a very interesting ...

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Passwords and other secrets in source code

Secrets are bad. Secrets in source code are an order of magnitude worse. Secrets are difficult to protect. Every attacker goes after the secrets and we must protect our secrets against all of them. The secrets are the valuable part of our software and that’s why they are bad – they represent an area of ...

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Google bots subversion

There is a lot of truth in saying that every tool can be used by good and by evil. There is no point in blocking the tools themselves as the attacker will turn to new tools and subvert the very familiar tools in unexpected ways. Now Google crawler bots were turned into such a weapon ...

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Security Assurance vs. Quality Assurance

It is often debated how Quality assurance relates to Security assurance. I have a slightly unconventional view of the relation between the two. You see, when we talk about the security assurance in software, I view the whole process in my head end to end. And the process runs roughly like this: The designer has ...

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Password recovery mechanisms – Part 3

Passwords remain the main means of authentication on the internet. People often forget their passwords and then they have to recover their access to the website services through some kind of mechanism. We try to make that so-called “password recovery” simple and automated, of course. There are several ways to do it, all of them ...

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Password recovery mechanisms – Part 2

Passwords remain the main means of authentication on the internet. People often forget their passwords and then they have to recover their access to the website services through some kind of mechanism. We try to make that so-called “password recovery” simple and automated, of course. There are several ways to do it, all of them ...

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Password recovery mechanisms – Part 1

Passwords remain the main means of authentication on the internet. People often forget their passwords and then they have to recover their access to the website services through some kind of mechanism. We try to make that so-called “password recovery” simple and automated, of course. There are several ways to do it, all of them ...

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Coverity reports on Open Source

Coverity is running a source code scan project started by U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006, a Net Security article reports. They published their report on quality defects recently pointing out some interesting facts. Coverity is a lot into code quality but they also report security problems. On the other hand, any quality problem ...

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Exodus from Java

Finally the news that I was subconsciously waiting for: the exodus of companies from Java has started. It does not come as a surprise at all. Java has never fulfilled the promises it had at the beginning. It did not provide any of the portability, security and ease of programming. I am only surprised it ...

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