Tag Archives: security

Retweet March 2010

By TechKnow | April 6, 2010

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe and I’ll be sure to follow back. Software Development Security pet peeves: [...]

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

By TechKnow | March 30, 2010

I’ve always been interested in understanding common programming errors so that I can easily recognize and diagnose problems, hopefully without spending hours staring at my breakpoints in my debugger. Previously, I’ve written on Common Groovy Errors and Top Worse Java Errors. The US Department of Homeland Security, under the Common Weakness Enumeration initiative put out [...]

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Facebook, Zuckerberg, and Plain Text Passwords

By TechKnow | March 8, 2010

Speaking about the public allegations that Mark Zuckerberg, alleged founder of Facebook, hacked into Harvard school email accounts of rivals and school journalists Kevin Rose said that the allegations don’t even sound technically possible. The way the allegations are described, Mark Zuckerberg used the passwords of Facebook users he wanted to track on other systems. [...]

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