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Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”.  On November 13th…

3 days ago

Not-So-Random: Using LD_PRELOAD to Hijack the rand() Function

Today I wanted to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD.  In today’s post we are going to use LD_PRELOAD to…

1 month ago

LD_PRELOAD – Introduction

Today I wanted to start what I plan to be a small series of blog posts about LD_PRELOAD. LD_PRELOAD is…

2 months ago

Speaking Developers’ Love Languages

Developers are a finicky breed, especially when it comes to the languages they code in. And, while they don’t always…

4 months ago

It’s Okay, We’re All On the SameSite

With Google’s recent announcement that all cookies without a SameSite flag will be treated as having SameSite=Lax set by default…

10 months ago

Does my Scala Value Class really not get allocated?

Scala’s Value Classes are a powerful and widely used mechanism for extension methods and additional type safety, both without incurring…

11 months ago

Zero-Day Snafus — Hunting Memory Allocation Bugs

Zero-Day Snafus — Hunting Memory Allocation BugsPrefaceLanguages like C/C++ come with the whole “allocation party” of malloc, calloc, zalloc, realloc and their…

1 year ago

Developers, Say Goodbye to Vulnerabilities. Squash Those Bugs!

Did you know that open source software security reviews once took an average of 25 days just to sort and…

1 year ago

Welcome to the New Secureideas.com

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Secure Ideas website. It is located at the same url:…

2 years ago

Programmers Who Don’t Understand Security Are Poor at Security

A university study confirmed the obvious: if you pay a random bunch of freelance programmers a small amount of money…

2 years ago