Re: [SC-L] Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006 | The Register

2007-01-23 Thread pete werner
This strikes me as largely meaningless, bordering on good news. More bugs found = more bugs fixed = more secure software. I dont really think you can compare the numbers from 2001 and 2006 though. There's way more people looking for bugs now than there were in 2001. Maybe there were more bugs arou

Re: [SC-L] Adapting Penetration Testing for Software Development Purposes

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Wysopal
Ken, I enjoyed reading your this article. My book "The Art of Software Security Testing" is based on the concept of using penetration techniques as part of the development lifecycle and is specifically targetted at QA professionals. One of my co-authors Elfriede Dustin has written 5 QA books a

Re: [SC-L] Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006 | The Register

2007-01-23 Thread Wall, Kevin
Benjamin Tomhave wrote... > This is completely unsurprising. Apparently nobody told the agile > dev community that they still need to follow all the secure coding > practices preached at the traditional dev folks for eons. XSS, > redirects, and SQL injection attacks are not revolutionary, are not