Experts to reveal Holy Grail code
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Code-breakers from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire are to reveal their findings on a 250-year-old mystery.
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Security-minded users can find out faster if their applications need to be patched with a free tool.
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In a separate matter perhaps inspired by, but otherwise unrelated to, last December's discovery of how a software-based HD DVD player may have left title keys exposed, giving users access to one of the key components necessary for them to back up their content onto separate discs, another user has posted the source code that may enable HD DVD users to determine the title keys for themselves.
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Code could be used to crash PCs and ultimately commandeer them, security firms warn. But Microsoft hasn't confirmed the third Word flaw in two weeks.
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In a new post to his blog, Chris Hartjes, spurred on by an article in the latest edition of php|architect magazine (covering protecting your code), has shared a few opinions starting with a certain paragraph near the end.   To start, I will focus on the paragraph above. What I get out of that is that if only your source was closed and hidden from prying eyes, it would not have bugs in it. Which is, of course, total nonsense. Code has bugs because it's open and they feel safer? There are two kinds of bugs: application bugs (which is the code I would write) and system bugs (in this case, bugs that that appear from PHP itself). I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do if there is a bug in PHP that causes my application to crash except to point this bug out to the people who have the ability to fix it.   He goes on to talk more about how protection like this (the article talks about using the IonCube Encoder) will not stop someone if they're really determine to get at the code underneath the encryption. His only suggestion is to make an application good enough that people wouldn't want to try to steal it as much and would rather pay for their version.   Encode your stuff if you want, but be aware that the minute you choose to do that you are telling your customers "I don't trust you" and I have a hard time understanding a business model that assumes people are going to want to steal the stuff you sell.
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A supercomputer that could help answer  some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday.
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Security experts warned on Wednesday that &quot;exploit code&quot; has been released for the critical flaw discovered in the way Windows and other Microsoft products handle JPEG images (see our previous coverage).
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Initiative focuses on popular scripting language with the aim to improve security.
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Sniffing out malicious code On-demand application security testing firm Veracode has added detection for backdoors and malicious code to its services. The addition aims to tap into concerns about the integrity of code developed by outsourced contractors.â¦
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Open-source developers attempting to reverse-engineer the mysteries of private networking software turn to genomics research. They're applying algorithms developed by biologists to decipher the secrets of closed networks. By Danny O'Brien.
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New FCC rules say open-source code for next-gen mobile tech has "high burden" to show it's secure. Some industry and security experts beg to differ.
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The Trusted Computing Group has announced a draft specification to protect sensitive data on storage devices.
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Unprecedented amounts of data will need to be secured in new, untested ways. What's the best course to pursue in such uncharted territory?
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roundup Free-roaming source code breeds new Netsky pest. Also: From IE to Opera, browsers are a likely prey.
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Wired Science reveals the secret messages encoded into the world's first manmade bacterial genome by the scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute.
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Ken Dunham of iDefense called the availability of the Cabir source code on ominous sign. &quot;Whenever you see the source code available on the underground, the more likely it is to be exploited,&quot; he said.
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Now that the final version of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 has been released, the in-depth analysis of its implications can begin.  Two of the first commentaries to be published have come from the legal world, and there are doubtless many more being prepared for purely internal use within software companies wondering whether to adopt the new licence.  But important as both the legal and commercial details are, I believe the true significance of the GPLv3 lies elsewhere.