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February 17th, 2009

NSA Together With Mitre CWE and SANS Identifies Top 25 Programming Errors

Secure programming is a huge issue and it’s the lack of it that causes all the problems we have with vulnerabilities and the exploits associated with them. If everywhere developers followed secure programming practices we wouldn’t have buffer overflow issues or unsanitized parameters leading to SQL Injection.
The NSA (National Security Agency), working with MITRE, SANS, [...]

August 1st, 2006

SpikeSource Spike PHP Security Audit Tool

Spike is an Open Source tool based on the popular RATS C based auditing tool implemented for PHP.
The tool Spike basically does static analysis of php code for security exploits, PHP5 and call-time pass-by-reference are currently required, but a PHP4 version is coming out this week.

This tool is especially welcomed by Darknet as there aren’t [...]