Writing secure codeMichael Howard
Writing secure code
by Michael Howard · first published 2003
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Yes, you need to dive into books like Writing Secure Code https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Secure-Second-Developer-Pract... Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003944.do SEI CERT C Coding Standard https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c
on “How to write better game libraries” ↗…where Microsoft products had failings, what were common security bugs and how to look for them. I think the presentations were done my Michael Howard. They were very good. Then we were given a copy of Writing Secure Code to read. It enumerated all of the know types of security vulnerabilities and told us how to fix them. It also taught us how to write a threat model, validate input from untrusted sources, reduce our…
on “First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel” ↗Ask HN: I picked up a coworker's book today - Writing Secure Code by David LeBlanc and Michael Howard. I immediately went to a chapter on buffer overruns because I've always heard this is a major source for security issues, but never knew why. I was surprised and…
on “Ask HN: How to Learn to code securely?” ↗