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Hunting Security Bugs - it's a good book that can help you improve the security of your code

Tom Gallagher, Bryan Jeffries and Lawrence Landauer have produced a very useful book that they describe as follows: Learn how to think like an attacker—and identify potential security issues in your software. In this essential guide, security testing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:13 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Michael Howard's written another book - this time on the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)

I'm really pleased to let you know that Michael Howard and Steve Lipner (both Microsoft security experts) have written a book detailing the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). If it's half as good as "Writing Secure Code" then it'll be well worth a Read More...
Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 8:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Teaching Security to Developers

Thanks to everyone @ VBUG Birmingham last night for making me so welcome. I was greated with lots of Halloooween pumpkins - one of which was carved with a semi-colon in it rather than a face - a C# joke apparently! I delved into how Malware gets onto Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:45 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

The Windows Security Resource Kit Second Edition is available

Credit where it's due, John Howard's post about the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit inspired me to make this one. The brand new "Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit Second Edition" has just been released. It's a really good book. I was sad enough Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:31 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to write secure code

Since the Trustworthy Computing initative Microsoft developers have been writing code following the guidance and coding practises documented in "Writing Secure Code". The book is now in it's second edition which includes practical advise following experience Read More...
Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 1:12 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Great Comment from Bruce Schneier "we tend to worry about the spectacular and rare rather than common events such as spose abuse and automotive accidents"

Bruce Schneier gave a interesting podcast promoting his new book Beyond Fear . Lots of common sense and yet highly relavent information and some great quotes including the following: "More people are killed per year by pigs than by Sharks" - based on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

Keith Brown has published a very interesting guide to Windows Security - the twist is that it's available both as a convential book and here as a wiki. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a Wiki there's a good defn & explaination Read More...
Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 4:32 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)

Protecting Your Windows Network - paths hackers can use to infiltrate networks

Steve Riley @ Jesper Johansson are writing a book titled "Proecting Your Windows Network" - an interesting except can be found I found here Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 3:59 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments