Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader writes “I do my own Web design and have a few websites — MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML, that kind of thing. It’s simple, amateur stuff, but I would love to have some reasonable ways to assess their security myself and patch the big holes, or possibly enlist someone to do ‘white hat’ work to assist me. I have absolutely no idea how to proceed. I don’t want to get mired in a never-ending paranoia-fueled race to patch holes before the hackers find them, but on the other hand, I don’t want my websites to look like Swiss cheese. Right now, I wouldn’t know what kind of cheese they look like: Swiss, Havarti, or hard as Parmesan. How can I take reasonable steps to protect these websites myself? What books has the community found useful? What groups (if any) can offer me inexpensive white-hat hacking that won’t end up costing me a first-born child? Or am I better off just waiting until a problem arises and then fixing it?”

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ancientribe writes “Metasploit hacking tool creator HD Moore told Dark Reading that the open-source hacking tool soon will come with back-end services-based features aimed at offloading resource-intensive penetration testing tasks. This is a departure for the software-oriented Metasploit, and Moore and company just may be on to something: it turns out commercial penetration testing tool vendors are looking at adding services-based versions of their software. Immunity Inc. will do so this year, and Core Security Technologies is considering doing so as well.”

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hargrand writes “President Obama has found the cyber tsar to head his new White House office of cybersecurity. According to US press reports this morning, an announcement expected later today will confirm Melissa Hathaway is to come in as cyber chief, after being cyber coordination executive for the director of national intelligence.”

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