software development
How secure are mobile banking apps?
Do banking institutions have a good handle on the things they need to remediate and new control layers they need to adopt to keep users secure? To answer those questions, …
Scan Ruby-based apps for security issues with Dawnscanner
Dawnscanner is an open source static analysis scanner designed to review the security of web applications written in Ruby. Dawnscanner’s genesis Its developer, Paolo …
Project Springfield: Cloud-based fuzz testing for uncovering million-dollar bugs
This Moday Microsoft debuted Project Springfield, a cloud-based fuzz testing (aka fuzzing) service that the company has been working on for a quite a while. David Molnar and …
How the EFF was pushed to rethink its Secure Messaging Scorecard
As good as the idea behind Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Secure Messaging Scorecard is, its initial version left much to be desired. The idea was to provide a …
Intel Crosswalk bug invalidates SSL protection
A bug in the Intel Crosswalk Project library for cross-platform mobile development can open users to man-in-the-middle attacks, researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity have …
Review: DevOpsSec
About the author Jim Bird, CTO of a major US-based institutional alternative trading system, has more than 20 years of experience in financial services technology, including …