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Secure Coding
Secure coding is very important in software development to ensure code security is high using techniques such as static analysis, code auditing and dynamic analysis to ensure safe coding practices are followed.
What Tools can be used for Secure Coding?
There are a variety of tools to ensure code safety, mostly based on source code auditing and static analysis.
The options available really depend on the language being used with some tools focusing on many languages such as Yasca – Multi-Language Static Analysis Toolset or specialist tools focusing on a single language like Brakeman – Static Analysis Rails Security Scanner.
Security Freak Video Lectures – Hacking, Programming, Networking & More
[ad] A while back a reader e-mailed us about a new site they have called Security Freak, the site is about informatin security education and is mostly using video lectures to illustrate and convey the lessons. Security-Freak.net is an attempt to lower the entry barrier for starting computer security research. The author has noticed that […]
PowerShell – More than the command prompt
[ad] For this article you should thank Patrick Ogenstad and his comment on my post , because I did not know about PowerShell until he mentioned about it… so a white point for him =) The parts that will follow are snippets from the Getting Started document that comes with it… Abstract Windows PowerShell™ is […]
Selenium – JavaScript Web Application Security Testing Tool
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Fuzzled – PERL Fuzzing Framework
[ad] There has been an explosion of fuzzing tools lately, quite a few we have mentioned here on Darknet. Someone else noticed this, and wondered where is the Perl framework to complete the family? With that in mind he spent the last few months working on something that should fill the gap – Fuzzled. Fuzzled […]