Security
Security Feature Articles
The Best of 2011
The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff
Top Security Threats for 2012
Malware, hacks, break-ins, and other malfeasance FortiGuard Labs predicts we'll have to deal with next year
Testing the Final SHA-3 Hashing Algorithms
Testing the finalists in the competition for a new SHA-3 standard shows generally fast, secure hashing algorithms with few collisions.
Finding the New Encryption Standard, SHA-3
The search for a replacement for SHA-2 has settled on five finalists. We examine their internals and compare their performance.
Jolt Awards for Books: The Rest of the Best
Security News
Compuware Updates Mainframe Workbench
New programmer tools for development and testing in mainframe arenas
Bridging Git Over Open Source and Commercial
AccuRev's Kando enterprise security and compliance platform
OpenSSL Closes Security Hole Six Pack
Cryptographic protocol flaws brought into question
Former Hacker: Software Should Be More Secure
Charlie Miller, a former hacker turned information security consultant, spoke at the recent conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
Cast Software's Five Pillars of Application Integrity
320 million scrutinized lines of code can't be wrong — or can they?
360° Load Testing for Web, Mobile, and Cloud
New combined Compuware Gomez and dynaTrace load-testing solution
ThoughtWorks Updates Release Management and Testing Tools
Agile development without the heavyweight and prescriptive approach?
Motorola-Based Commercial Fingerprint Sensor SDK for Android
Free SDK uses personalization and security features of AuthenTec smart sensors in Android-based phones
New Developer Lab For Mobile Business-to-Employee Apps
Compliant with security and distribution standards for corporate IT departments
AccuRev's SCM Play Gets Wider and Bigger
Company targets enterprise wins with greater security, internationalization, and compliance
Events of Interest
February 13-16, Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Connect
February 26-29, San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon (Sharepoint Technology Conference)
March 5-6, London, UK. QCon London
March 5-9, San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference
March 19-23, Denver, CO. DrupalCon
March 24-28, San Jose, CA. CGO '12. 10th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
March 25-30, Potsdam, Germany. AOSD '12. Aspect-oriented Software Development.
March 26-29, Reston, VA. EclipseCon 2012
April 2-3, London, U.K. Moblie 360 Live
April 2-4, San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Where Conference
April 10-12, Santa Clara, CA. Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
May 7-11, St. Petersburg, FL. SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference 2012
May 14-17, Bay Area, California. AnDevCon III (Android Developer Conference)
May 29-31, Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond, San Francisco, CA.
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 30 - Oct 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
Best of the Web
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
Compiling the JavaScript Engines
With growing demand for out-of-browser JavaScript (e.g., server JavaScript), a good knowledge of JavaScript engines is becoming more important.
