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teaching secure coding

Episode 260: The Art of Teaching Secure Coding with Tanya Janca

In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts welcomes Tanya Janca of She Hacks Purple back into the studio. Tanya talks about her newly released book: Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding, published by Wiley and the larger problem of how to promote the teaching of secure coding practices to developers.

NASCO Alerts

AppSec Is A Mess. Our Kids Are Paying The Price.

Data stolen? Get used to it kid. That’s the reality for young people coming of age today in the app sec shanty town that is the 21st century U.S. economy. Like the actual favelas and shanty towns that have sprung up in developing nations over the last century, our application ecosystem is sprawling, unregulated, ad-hoc and prone to shocking breakdowns and failures. Our kids are paying the price.

Episode 168: Application Security Debt is growing. Also: Web App Security in the Age of IoT

In this week’s episode of the podcast (#168), sponsored by Signal Sciences, Chris Eng of Veracode joins us to talk about the 10th annual State of Software Security Report and the problem of application security debt. Also, Brendan Macaraeg of Signal Sciences talks about the expanding landscape of web application attacks and defenses.

Researchers: SCADA Mobile Apps Continue to Have ‘Shocking’ Number of Vulnerabilities

Despite their availability on mobile networks and thus increased exposure to outside security threats, SCADA apps remain highly insecure and vulnerable to attack, putting critical industrial control systems at immediate and increased risk, researchers at IOActive and Embedi have found.

Update: Two Years After Discovery Dangerous Security Hole Lingers in GPS Services

Security researchers warned of a serious vulnerability in a GPS service by the China-based firm ThinkRace exposes sensitive data in scores of GPS services, more than two years after the hole was discovered and reported to the firm. (Update: added comment from John van den Oever, the CEO of one2track B.V – PFR 1/3/2018)