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Automatic security

June 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Security is not easy-to-use, not fancy and it is hard to remember all those nasty attack methods. So there are automatic security checks, firewalls, helpers and a lot more. They are built to make your application more secure. But automatic security tools can't help you to find logic faults. What if you have a Cross-Site […]

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Tags: Rails · Server · Web server

[Server] Did you update OpenSSL?

May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two weeks ago, the Debian package of OpenSSL has been found to generate weak keys (CVE). Here's the news from Heise online:

Security expert Luciano Bello has now discovered a critical vulnerability in the OpenSSL package which makes the random number sequences, and therefore keys generated, predictable. The problem only affects Debian and distributions derived from […]

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Tags: Server