In my previous post, I wrote about a simple process for triaging vulnerabilities across applications. Once you have the issues prioritized, the vulnerability remediation process is pretty straightforward. You don’t have a lot of options; either remediate the issue, ignore it, or apply other measures (compensating controls) to mitigate the risk posed by the vulnerability.
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Welcome to the first part in our AngularJS Security Series. Here, we’ll discuss the various solutions to write more secure applications. Our goal is simple: to help developers better understand Angular and embrace the practice of writing more secure code.
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AngularJS is one of those wonderful frameworks that seems to hide so many of JavaScript’s warts. While Angular adds much-needed features to the language, it also creates a handful of new problems for developers. Due to this, I’ve teamed up with Lewis Ardern to pose a simple question with a not-so-simple answer:
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In 2014 an exploit was discovered in Firefox for Android that allowed malicious applications access to sensitive user data. The cause? An unfortunately predictable PRNG called Math.random().
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Java SecureRandom updates as of April 2016
There have been several changes to Java’s SecureRandom API since creating this post back in 2009. According to Oracle, the following interesting changes have been made:
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What’s the difference between OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0? And which version of OAuth is right for you? Hint: It’s not necessarily the latest one.
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In Python, you can use pickle to serialize (deserialize) an object structure into (from) a byte stream. Here are best practices for secure Python pickling.
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