RIP “crypto”
This week veteran cryptographer Matt Blaze, finally gave in — to what must have been a near-constant, low-level drone of ‘CAn Buy Crypto.com???$$$$!’ spam — and sold the pithy domain name he registered in 1993, …
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Presentation: Gaining Control with the Web Animations API
Dan Wilson talks about the Web Animations API, how this new JavaScript API came to be and how it compares to the alternate ways to animate …
Presentation: Spring Security 5: The Reactive Parts
Rob Winch demonstrates using the reactive support in Spring Security 5, starting with a simple application and incrementally securing it, …
Last Npm Incident Uncovers Security Vulnerability
Last week, the npm registry had an operations incident that caused a number of highly depended on packages, such as to become unavailable. …
Redpoint Games Launch NPM Package Signing Tool
Redpoint have launched pkgsign, a package signing and verification tool for NPM. It aims to improve security by helping ensure the …
Language bugs infest downstream software, fuzzer finds
Developers working in secure development guidelines can still be bitten by upstream bugs in the languages they use. That’s the conclusion …
Overcoming the Language Barrier Key to DevSecOps Success
As DevOps moves to DevSecOps, there is a significant “people” component involved in the shift. Development and security teams both need …
Presentation: Cybercrime and the Developer: How to Start Defending Against the Darker Side
Steve Poole discusses actions one can take (and some behaviors one must change) to create a more secure Java application for the …
NPM Releases New Security Features
Today at the Node.js Interactive conference in Vancouver, BC, npm, Inc. announced the launch of new security features meant to keep the npm Registry …
W3C Publishes DRM as a Recommendation
After a divided vote, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has adopted Encrypted Media Extensions as a full recommendation. On July 6, 2017, Tim Berners-Lee, the W3C Director and inventor…
Java EE Security API (JSR-375) Approved
The Java EE Security API, JSR 375, was approved in early August. All members of the JCP Executive Committee voted “Yes”, with zero “No” Read full news article on InfoQ…
Malware vaccination tricks: blue pills or red pills
First, let me explain what I mean by malware vaccination tricks. Most of you will have heard about some of these. Read full news article on Malwarebytes Unpacked
Make Sure We’re Using the Same Language
Some web browsers, attempting to block spoofed URLs using different writing systems and their differing alphabets, included filters which would discern if a URL mixed various alphabets. If a URL…
One Standard to Rule Them All: A Common Language for the Cloud’s Identity Management Crisis
The movements of containerization, APIs and open source are more than just the hottest IT buzzwords — they speak to a shift in the way today’s savviest tech minds are…