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Confusing Computer Security Guidelines? You’re Not Alone If you’ve ever felt baffled by the computer security instructions provided at your workplace, you’re not alone. A recent study underscores a fundamental issue in the crafting of these guidelines and suggests straightforward m...
ISIS Lab's Hack Night: An offensive security training course held online over the summer
(docs.google.com)
http://isislab.github.io/Hack-Night/
New project to create a W or X JIT engine for browsers.
CSP Is Dead, Long Live CSP! On the Insecurity of Whitelists and the Future of CSP
(static.googleusercontent.com)
Abstract:
Content Security Policy is a web platform mechanism designed
to mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS), the top security
vulnerability in modern web applications [24]. In this paper,
we take a closer look at the practical benefits of adopting
CSP and identify significant flaws in real-...
Akamai have apparently stopped protecting Brian Krebs site due to an enormous DDOS, information from the site in this article:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/
can be found on [Google Cache](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mG2INOjNyFUJ:k...
See also the release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/50.0/releasenotes/
I felt the security fixes deserved more attention than "various security fixes".