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Criteria for Evaluating Static Analysis Tools
As with any tools purchase part of the outcome is in how good the evaluation criteria are, so it is important to understand the criteria people might use when assessing Security static analysis tools.
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Hiring an AppSec Engineer - What to look for?
I am in the process of trying to hire an AppSec Engineer to review our source code manually and have only been able to find those using appscan tools for secure code reviews. Is there something in ...
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Code Analysis: Binary vs Source
While conducting a software security assessment, if you have access to the source code of a compiled application (say C++), would you ever do any analysis upon the compiled version, either with any ...
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Security code review recommendations [closed]
I've been writing software for ~7 years and have been actively interested in security for ~2-3. This interest has been entirely self-motivated and primarily on the attack side; I've written several ...
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What are some metrics to be used to evaluate SaaS security?
What are some metrics to be used to evaluate a SaaS app's security?
Some examples:
static code analysis (Fortify)
code coverage (bugs being a potential source of vulnerabilities)
others?
In case it ...
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What web application vulnerabilites are most likey to be found in a source code review vs a grey box pentest?
What type of vulnerabilities would be found additional in a source code review vs a pentest?
If my organization performs regular grey box pentests, do we really require to perform source code reviews?...
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Automated tools vs. Manual reviews
What are the advantages of using automated tools, as opposed to manual review? What are the disadvantages?
This applies both to external blackbox vulnerability scanning, and to static code analysis.
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What is the iOS securecoding feature, and what risks does it mitigate?
iOS 6 and newer allows for developers to implement a secure coding method that seems to prevent impostor objects from being de-serialized
Can anyone explain what this would actually protect to the ...
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Code Review Strategies
As per my information, there is no hard and fast rule for doing a security code review but we all develop our own strategy for the same. I was wondering if we all can share the different strategies ...
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How to perform a security audit for a PHP application?
I have a PHP application that I would like to have audited for security. I'm familiar with most of the general security issues, but want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
What steps should I take ...
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Exploiting a desktop application
I'm studying application security and now I have a question which I couldn't find a good answer.
Assume I have a vulnerable desktop application in my virus-free windows 7 PC. Let's say when the file ...
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Finding security consultant for doing in-depth code review?
We have a PHP application that we know has poor coding practices (because the developers did not have a good understanding of PHP / programming fundamentals). This could lead to the scenario where we ...
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How to rate Open Source Libraries?
Is there some kind of automated scanning tool which detects threats in Open Source Java Libraries?
I think the OWASP Orizon project tried to build such a tool, but it seems to be inactive for years ...
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White-box vs. Black-box
What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each form of testing?
I.e. What is the difference between static code analysis and runtime/dynamic penetration testing?
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Is there a real risk of exploitation in java code where a null pointer is dereferenced
I'm playing with some generally well written and parsed java code, but there are some oddities thrown up by my code scanning tool.
I know a null pointer dereference can crash a program, but assuming ...
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How to assess severity/impact of vulnerability
In our organization we wanted to review the overall IT landscape and check the most critical applications for vulnerability in phase 1, and then look at lesser critical applications in phase 2... as ...
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Any useful tools for Android source code review? [closed]
I'm wondering if anyone has some recommendations for Android source code review which is Java based. For example, reviewing an Android app for security issues. Bonus for being F/OSS.
Fortify seems ...
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Can anyone suggest good open source tools for scanning source code for vulnerabilities? [closed]
I'm particularly looking ones which detect vulnerabilities in C/C++ code. I've seen a bunch of proprietary tools but no open source ones.
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Fortify360 - Sinks & Sources - Vulnerability count
In an application security environment, I use Fortify Software's Fortify360 on a daily basis.
One of my biggest hurdles is explaining the numbers (sources vs sinks)
Fortify flags each location in ...
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What is the vulnerability in my PHP code?
A website of mine was recently hacked. Although the actual website remain unchanged, they were somehow able to use the domain to create a link that re-directed to an ebay phishing scam.
I've taken ...
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Recommendations for documenting security code review
How should I document the results of a security code review?
Does anyone know of any resources for reviewers that provide guidance on how they should document their findings? Maybe a document that ...
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What are some good, free tools to run automated security audits for PHP code?
I've been looking for some time now and have come up short. The most promising I found was Spike PHP, which seems to no longer work. I'm looking to scan my code for potential risks of SQL Injection, ...
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Scripting a search through php files for dangerous calls for manual review
I'm automating a script which searches through all php files on a big site for dangerous commands. The files which are found will be manually code reviewed.
Does anyone have any recommendations for ...
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Open source web application penetration testing community
I do web development for a living but my real passion is security. I have worked with countless open source web application/framework and I have found vulnerabilities in most of them. The main cause ...
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Benefits of secure code review in-IDE vs. fatapp vs. webapp
For those of you who have worked with commercial secure code review tools such as:
Klocwork
Coverity
Armorize
Fortify
Checkmarx
Appscan Source Edition (formerly
Ounce)
Or perhaps a free or open-...
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Getting a manual security code review done - What to watch out for?
We have a PHP application that we want to get code reviewed from an external security consultant, but I'm not clear on "how to" go about that process.
We did specify what kind of tests he should be ...
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GET with additional parameters leads to "code injection" in html displayed
We got a security review done of our PHP code and the security company sent this in their report:
Request
GET /appdir/ajax/addAvail.php?counter=1216%3cscript%3ealert(0)%3c%2fscript%3e&from=1216%...
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