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24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them
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24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them

by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega
September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
9h 58m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from 24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them

SIN 12INFORMATION LEAKAGE

OVERVIEW OF THE SIN

When we talk about information leakage as a security risk, we’re talking about the attacker getting data that leads to a breach of security or privacy policy, whether implicit or explicit. The data itself could be the goal (such as customer data), or the data can provide information that leads the attacker to his goal.

At a high level, there are three ways in which information gets leaked:

Image Accidentally The data is considered valuable, but it got out anyway, perhaps due to a logic problem in the code, or perhaps through a nonobvious channel. Or the data would be considered valuable if the designers ...

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ISBN: 9780071626750