A few weeks ago, I followed a presentation at Digicomp called “From Ethical Hacking to IT-Forensic” presented by Juerg Fischer. The most interesting part I kept from the presentation (that was in German so may explain the little I remember from it :) ) was about the tools and resources useful for the differents phases of the penetration [...]

An agreement has been found by expert regarding the top 25 most dangerous programming errors.
Very interesting list indeed, nice point is that we can find a lot of details on how to avoid these security errors. Obviously the dangerous part of these errors is that they can be exploited…
Insecure Interaction Between Components

Improper Input Validation
Improper Encoding [...]

A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn't find any stats :(] it will certainly help [...]