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
2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners
Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors.
Wind River Introduces Safe Partitioning
VxWorks safety solutions for industrial and automotive applications
Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview
Over 100 new features including security functions — coming late summer 2012
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?
Events of Interest
May 29-31, San Francisco, CA. Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Bellevue, WA. AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 26-29, Boston, MA. 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 9-12, San Francisco, CA. JAX Conference - Java, Cloud, Android, Agile
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012
September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012)
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 29-30, San Francisco, CA. MySQL Connect Conference
September 30-October 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 6-7, Los Altos, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 23-25, Ludwigsburg, Germany. EclipseCon Europe 2012
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Best of the Web
What the New iPad and iOS 5.1 Mean for Developers
The new display is gorgeous. But local storage for HMTL5 is currently broken on the new iPad and performance of some apps is slower. Here's a deep dive into the issues, including benchmarks and analysis.
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.
