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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 22FAILING TO PROTECT NETWORK TRAFFIC

OVERVIEW OF THE SIN

Imagine you’re at a conference with free WiFi connectivity. As you browse the Web or read your e-mail, all of the images you attempt to download get replaced with a picture you don’t want to see. Meanwhile, attackers have captured your login information for e-mail and instant messenger. It’s happened before (for example, it’s a standard trick at conferences like Defcon), and there are tools that make attacks like this easy to launch.

One security professional used to give talks about e-mail security, and at the end of a talk, he would announce a “lucky winner.” This person would get a T-shirt with his or her e-mail login information on it. Someone else had used a sniffer, identified ...

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ISBN: 9780071626750