Went to the opening night of the Green Day tour at the Key Arena last night and had a great time.  I have to say that it wasn’t quite as good as the last time we saw them (Orlando in 2005), but it was a great gig those guys really know how to rock a [...]

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For some time I’ve studied why programmers create bugs, and how they understand and then fix them.  One of the obvious causes is that programmers misunderstand the problem/requirements/solution, and therefore code an incorrect (buggy) program.
Nothing I’ve seen thus far so simply shows this phenomenon, and the clear contention between programmers of the solution, than this [...]

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I know this is going to seem a bit "mean", but I couldn’t help laughing to myself when I saw this thread in the webappsec mailing list.  I try to follow the list, but seldom (if ever) post to it as I’m just not fast enough, and there are plenty of good people on that [...]

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Ok, this is running rampant around the net, but I I’m going to post it here because not only is it pretty cool, but also I’m a big fan of AC/DC.
http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel/
I could say all sorts of things here about security, software, how it works (the authors are nice enough not to protect the macros so [...]

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[Via Rudy]
http://nvd.nist.gov/statistics.cfm?results=1
Proof that there’s now too many vulnerabilities   Just in case that it’s fixed sometime soon, here’s a screenshot

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Caught this on TV last night after finally getting back home (14 hours flights are never fun).
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/166179/
What can I say other than genius!

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There’s been lots of talk about the undersea Internet cables being cut, and lots of conspiracy theories – Mark Curphey’s got a cool map up on his page that shows a map of all the undersea cables.
Now, I’m not one to sign up to the conspiracy theories – the area that the cuts are in [...]

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This nearly made me spit my morning coffee out.  Genius from the guys at Veracode.

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