Cracked it! Highlights from KringleCon 5: Golden Rings
Learning meets fun at the 2022 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge – strap yourself in for a crackerjack ride at the North Pole as I foil Grinchum's foul plan and recover the five golden rings
Secure coding
Integer overflow: How does it occur and how can it be prevented?
Make no mistake, counting on a computer is not as easy as it may seem. Here’s what happens when a number gets “too big”.
What are buffer overflow attacks and how are they thwarted?
Ever since the Morris worm, buffer overflows have become notorious fare in the world of vulnerabilities
Programmer’s Day: Resources to audit your code
Taking advantage of the celebration of the Day of the Programmer, we share some audit tools to evaluate the security of your code
Can cramming code with bugs make it more secure? Some think so
Unbeknownst to exploit writers, the seemingly mouth-watering bugs would be bogus and non-exploitable
Five tips for pentesters in iOS
Recommendations for pentesters looking for security flaws in iOS applications made by developers
Open source code is ubiquitous and so are many vulnerabilities
One-third of audited codebases that contain Apache Struts suffer from the same vulnerability that facilitated the Equifax hack a year ago
Some examples of vulnerable code and how to find them
"When looking for vulnerabilities in open-source code, it is advisable to check portions of code that is prone to errors": Useful tips from one of ESET's malware analysts, Matías Porolli, on how to spot vulnerable code.
Birds of a feather code together
Lysa Myers, a security researcher at ESET, looks at the diversity challenges and opportunities in information security - while there is much to be done, there's a lot to be optimistic about she says.