Proactively Secure Programming Techniques

Presented at HOPE Number Six (2006), July 21, 2006, 4 p.m. (60 minutes)

This lecture will teach several proactively secure programming methods that can be applied to direct-memory languages like C and C++. These methods are an application of the fundamental defense in depth principle that can provide an extra level of security against common buffer overflow attacks, double-free vulnerabilities, and logic errors.

Presenters:

• J. Salvatore Testa II
  J. Salvatore Testa II is a member of Hacktivismo, a human rights and technology group that fulfills a critical component of the Cult of the Dead Cow triumvirate. He is a computer security consultant and a graduate student studying computer security and information assurance at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It is rumored that J. Salvatore once hacked Chuck Norris' computer.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Six (2006)/HOPE Number Six (2006) - Proactively Secure Programming Techniques.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE Number Six (2006)/HOPE Number Six (2006) - Proactively Secure Programming Techniques.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwInjsRexd0

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