A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 4: Weighing AppSec Technology Options

This post is the fourth in a 5-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. The series will define the components of a sound AppSec program, delineate the growing threats to software, weigh the costs of a data breach, and outline the CISO’s responsibility in managing software security risk...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 3: Toward an AppSec Center of Excellence

This post is the third in a 4-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. The series will define the components of a sound AppSec program, delineate the growing threats to software, weigh the costs of a data breach, and outline the CISO’s responsibility in managing software security risk...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 1: Defining AppSec

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a multi-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec” prepared by our friends over at application testing firm Veracode. The series will define the components of a sound AppSec program, delineate the growing threats to software, weigh the costs of a dat...

Behind the Numbers of Mozilla's Bug Bounty Program

Bug bounty programs have been around in various forms for more than 15 years now, and many of the larger software companies, including Mozilla and Google, have established rewards for people who report bugs. But, aside from the amount of money that’s paid out when bugs are fixed, there hasn’t bee...

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [Video]

iPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook Video A bug in the latest version of Skype for iPhone and iPod touch makes its users vulnerable to having their address book stolen just by viewing a specially crafted message, says AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance. T...

Josh Shaul on Broken Security, Targeted Attacks and Database Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Josh Shaul of AppSec about the current run of targeted attacks and data breaches, the state of denial among some security and IT staffs about the extent of the problem and what can be done to address the issues. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

OWASP Hackademic Challenges Project

The OWASP Hackademic Challenges Project is an open source project that helps you test your knowledge on web application security. You can use it to actually attack web applications in a realistic but also controlable and safe environment. On the left menu you can see all attack scenarios that are...

NSA: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now

WASHINGTON–Despite its reputation for secrecy and technical expertise, the National Security Agency doesn’t have a set of secret coding practices or testing methods that magically make their applications and systems bulletproof. In fact, one of the agency’s top technical experts said that virtual...

Session Fixation: The Forgotten Vulnerability?

In this video from the OWASP AppSec Research 2010 conference in Sweden, Michael Schrank, Bastian Braun and Martin Johns discuss the problem of session fixation and what can be done to solve it...