Today I am going to present the rest of what I consider to be the highlights from the OWASP IL 2011 conference that took place ten days ago. Jumping ahead, combined with my first OWASP post, the main conclusion that one can draw from the use cases presented is that coding is a business that involves some basic thinking in addition to ability to press keyboard keys in a sequence that will be accepted by a compiler. One exploit – [ Read More ]
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In this post I will share with you one of the development environment practices that I use and find quite helpful. Few years ago I was browsing through windows “Sounds” tab for some irrelevant obscure reason and stumbled into option of setting Visual Studio sounds. You see, incidentally, both Visual Studio and MS Windows are Microsoft’s products – and this fact opens a room for integration features between these products that one wouldn’t normally expect. There are 4 Visual Studio [ Read More ]
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Last week I visited OWASP IL 2011 annual conference. OWASP is a non profit organization dedicated to promote web and application security. I first got to know this initiative when the lecture based on my university research was presented about 4 years ago. Since then local OWASP branch has grown and now one can actually find interesting presentations being shown there from time to time. I myself began regularly visiting OWASP meetings since then (who in their right mind would possibly [ Read More ]
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Many times when we are using PInvoke, the return value of the function specifying the error code might return some generic error that will leave the programmer scratching his head. We cannot demand from DLL producers to return meaningful error for each possible case and what happened today was just one example of this happening. I hope that my sad example will prevent critical sanity loss to someone who encounters similar problem. In order to implement domain management, we are [ Read More ]
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