The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails--given by one Shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. | |
| Ecclesiastes 12:11-12 (NIV) |
Note that there is a heavy emphasis on technical articles available on the web, since this is where most of this kind of technical information is available.
[Advosys 2000] Advosys Consulting (formerly named Webber Technical Services). Writing Secure Web Applications. http://advosys.ca/tips/web-security.html
[Al-Herbish 1999] Al-Herbish, Thamer. 1999. Secure Unix Programming FAQ. http://www.whitefang.com/sup.
[Aleph1 1996] Aleph1. November 8, 1996. ``Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit''. Phrack Magazine. Issue 49, Article 14. http://www.phrack.com/search.phtml?view&article=p49-14 or alternatively http://www.2600.net/phrack/p49-14.html.
[Anonymous 1999] Anonymous. October 1999. Maximum Linux Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Linux Server and Workstation Sams. ISBN: 0672316706.
[Anonymous 1998] Anonymous. September 1998. Maximum Security : A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network. Sams. Second Edition. ISBN: 0672313413.
[Anonymous Phrack 2001] Anonymous. August 11, 2001. Once upon a free(). Phrack, Volume 0x0b, Issue 0x39, Phile #0x09 of 0x12. http://phrack.org/show.php?p=57&a=9
[AUSCERT 1996] Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AUSCERT) and O'Reilly. May 23, 1996 (rev 3C). A Lab Engineers Check List for Writing Secure Unix Code. ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/papers/secure_programming_checklist
[Bach 1986] Bach, Maurice J. 1986. The Design of the Unix Operating System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-201799-7 025.
[Beattie 2002] Beattie, Steve, Seth Arnold, Crispin Cowan, Perry Wagle, Chris Wright, Adam Shostack. November 2002. Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime. 2002 LISA XVI, November 3-8, 2002, Philadelphia, PA.
[Bellovin 1989] Bellovin, Steven M. April 1989. "Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite" Computer Communications Review 2:19, pp. 32-48. http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/ipext.pdf
[Bellovin 1994] Bellovin, Steven M. December 1994. Shifting the Odds -- Writing (More) Secure Software. Murray Hill, NJ: AT&T Research. http://www.research.att.com/~smb/talks
[Bishop 1996] Bishop, Matt. May 1996. ``UNIX Security: Security in Programming''. SANS '96. Washington DC (May 1996). http://olympus.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog.html
[Bishop 1997] Bishop, Matt. October 1997. ``Writing Safe Privileged Programs''. Network Security 1997 New Orleans, LA. http://olympus.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog.html
[Blaze 1996] Blaze, Matt, Whitfield Diffie, Ronald L. Rivest, Bruce Schneier, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eric Thompson, and Michael Wiener. January 1996. ``Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security: A Report by an Ad Hoc Group of Cryptographers and Computer Scientists.'' ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/keylength.txt and ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/keylength.ps.
[CC 1999] The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC). August 1999. Version 2.1. Technically identical to International Standard ISO/IEC 15408:1999. http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/ccv20/ccv2list.htm
[CERT 1998] Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center (CERT/CC). February 13, 1998. Sanitizing User-Supplied Data in CGI Scripts. CERT Advisory CA-97.25.CGI_metachar. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-97.25.CGI_metachar.html.
[Cheswick 1994] Cheswick, William R. and Steven M. Bellovin. Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker. Full text at http://www.wilyhacker.com.
[Clowes 2001] Clowes, Shaun. 2001. ``A Study In Scarlet - Exploiting Common Vulnerabilities in PHP'' http://www.securereality.com.au/archives.html
[CMU 1998] Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). February 13, 1998 Version 1.4. ``How To Remove Meta-characters From User-Supplied Data In CGI Scripts''. ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/cgi_metacharacters.
[Cowan 1999] Cowan, Crispin, Perry Wagle, Calton Pu, Steve Beattie, and Jonathan Walpole. ``Buffer Overflows: Attacks and Defenses for the Vulnerability of the Decade''. Proceedings of DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Expo (DISCEX), http://schafercorp-ballston.com/discex SANS 2000. http://www.sans.org/newlook/events/sans2000.htm. For a copy, see http://immunix.org/documentation.html.
[Cox 2000] Cox, Philip. March 30, 2001. Hardening Windows 2000. http://www.systemexperts.com/win2k/hardenW2K11.pdf.
[Dobbertin 1996]. Dobbertin, H. 1996. The Status of MD5 After a Recent Attack. RSA Laboratories' CryptoBytes. Vol. 2, No. 2.
[Felten 1997] Edward W. Felten, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, and Dan S. Wallach. Web Spoofing: An Internet Con Game Technical Report 540-96 (revised Feb. 1997) Department of Computer Science, Princeton University http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/pub/spoofing.pdf
[Fenzi 1999] Fenzi, Kevin, and Dave Wrenski. April 25, 1999. Linux Security HOWTO. Version 1.0.2. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html
[FHS 1997] Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS 2.0). October 26, 1997. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group, edited by Daniel Quinlan. Version 2.0. http://www.pathname.com/fhs.
[Filipski 1986] Filipski, Alan and James Hanko. April 1986. ``Making Unix Secure.'' Byte (Magazine). Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill Inc. Vol. 11, No. 4. ISSN 0360-5280. pp. 113-128.
[Flake 2001] Flake, Havlar. Auditing Binaries for Security Vulnerabilities. http://www.blackhat.com/html/win-usa-01/win-usa-01-speakers.html.
[FOLDOC] Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing. http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html.
[Forristal 2001] Forristal, Jeff, and Greg Shipley. January 8, 2001. Vulnerability Assessment Scanners. Network Computing. http://www.nwc.com/1201/1201f1b1.html
[FreeBSD 1999] FreeBSD, Inc. 1999. ``Secure Programming Guidelines''. FreeBSD Security Information. http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html
[Friedl 1997] Friedl, Jeffrey E. F. 1997. Mastering Regular Expressions. O'Reilly. ISBN 1-56592-257-3.
[FSF 1998] Free Software Foundation. December 17, 1999. Overview of the GNU Project. http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/gnu-history.html
[FSF 1999] Free Software Foundation. January 11, 1999. The GNU C Library Reference Manual. Edition 0.08 DRAFT, for Version 2.1 Beta of the GNU C Library. Available at, for example, http://www.netppl.fi/~pp/glibc21/libc_toc.html
[Fu 2001] Fu, Kevin, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster. August 2001. ``Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web''. Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C., August 2001. http://cookies.lcs.mit.edu/pubs/webauth.html.
[Gabrilovich 2002] Gabrilovich, Evgeniy, and Alex Gontmakher. February 2002. ``Inside Risks: The Homograph Attack''. Communications of the ACM. Volume 45, Number 2. Page 128.
[Galvin 1998a] Galvin, Peter. April 1998. ``Designing Secure Software''. Sunworld. http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1998/swol-04-security.html.
[Galvin 1998b] Galvin, Peter. August 1998. ``The Unix Secure Programming FAQ''. Sunworld. http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-08-1998/swol-08-security.html
[Garfinkel 1996] Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford. April 1996. Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition. ISBN 1-56592-148-8. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis
[Garfinkle 1997] Garfinkle, Simson. August 8, 1997. 21 Rules for Writing Secure CGI Programs. http://webreview.com/wr/pub/97/08/08/bookshelf
[Gay 2000] Gay, Warren W. October 2000. Advanced Unix Programming. Indianapolis, Indiana: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-67231-990-X.
[Geodsoft 2001] Geodsoft. February 7, 2001. Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers. http://www.geodsoft.com/howto/harden.
[Graham 1999] Graham, Jeff. May 4, 1999. Security-Audit's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). http://lsap.org/faq.txt
[Gong 1999] Gong, Li. June 1999. Inside Java 2 Platform Security. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. ISBN 0-201-31000-7.
[Gundavaram Unknown] Gundavaram, Shishir, and Tom Christiansen. Date Unknown. Perl CGI Programming FAQ. http://language.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
[Hall 1999] Hall, Brian "Beej". Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets. 13-Jan-1999. Version 1.5.5. http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net
[Howard 2002] Howard, Michael and David LeBlanc. 2002. Writing Secure Code. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1588-8.
[ISO 12207] International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 1995. Information technology -- Software life cycle processes ISO/IEC 12207:1995.
[ISO 13335] International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO/IEC TR 13335. Guidelines for the Management of IT Security (GMITS). Note that this is a five-part technical report (not a standard); see also ISO/IEC 17799:2000. It includes:
ISO 13335-1: Concepts and Models for IT Security
ISO 13335-2: Managing and Planning IT Security
ISO 13335-3: Techniques for the Management of IT Security
ISO 13335-4: Selection of Safeguards
ISO 13335-5: Safeguards for External Connections
[ISO 17799] International Organization for Standardization (ISO). December 2000. Code of Practice for Information Security Management. ISO/IEC 17799:2000.
[ISO 9000] International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 2000. Quality management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary. ISO 9000:2000. See http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/iso9000-14000/iso9000/selection_use/iso9000family.html
[ISO 9001] International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 2000. Quality management systems - Requirements ISO 9001:2000
[Jones 2000] Jones, Jennifer. October 30, 2000. ``Banking on Privacy''. InfoWorld, Volume 22, Issue 44. San Mateo, CA: International Data Group (IDG). pp. 1-12.
[Kelsey 1998] Kelsey, J., B. Schneier, D. Wagner, and C. Hall. March 1998. "Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators." Fast Software Encryption, Fifth International Workshop Proceedings (March 1998), Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp. 168-188. http://www.counterpane.com/pseudorandom_number.html.
[Kernighan 1988] Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie. 1988. The C Programming Language. Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-110362-8.
[Kim 1996] Kim, Eugene Eric. 1996. CGI Developer's Guide. SAMS.net Publishing. ISBN: 1-57521-087-8 http://www.eekim.com/pubs/cgibook
Kolsek [2002] Kolsek, Mitja. December 2002. Session Fixation Vulnerability in Web-based Applications http://www.acros.si/papers/session_fixation.pdf.
[Kuchling 2000]. Kuchling, A.M. 2000. Restricted Execution HOWTO. http://www.python.org/doc/howto/rexec/rexec.html
[Kuhn 2002] Kuhn, Markus G. Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT displays. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 12-15, 2002. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf
[LSD 2001] The Last Stage of Delirium. July 4, 2001. UNIX Assembly Codes Development for Vulnerabilities Illustration Purposes. http://lsd-pl.net/papers.html#assembly.
[McClure 1999] McClure, Stuart, Joel Scambray, and George Kurtz. 1999. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions. Berkeley, CA: Osbourne/McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-212127-0.
[McKusick 1999] McKusick, Marshall Kirk. January 1999. ``Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable.'' Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html.
[McGraw 1999] McGraw, Gary, and Edward W. Felten. December 1998. Twelve Rules for developing more secure Java code. Javaworld. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1998/jw-12-securityrules.html.
[McGraw 1999] McGraw, Gary, and Edward W. Felten. January 25, 1999. Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code, 2nd Edition John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 047131952X. http://www.securingjava.com.
[McGraw 2000a] McGraw, Gary and John Viega. March 1, 2000. Make Your Software Behave: Learning the Basics of Buffer Overflows. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/overflows/index.html.
[McGraw 2000b] McGraw, Gary and John Viega. April 18, 2000. Make Your Software Behave: Software strategies In the absence of hardware, you can devise a reasonably secure random number generator through software. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/randomsoft/index.html?dwzone=security.
[Miller 1995] Miller, Barton P., David Koski, Cjin Pheow Lee, Vivekananda Maganty, Ravi Murthy, Ajitkumar Natarajan, and Jeff Steidl. 1995. Fuzz Revisited: A Re-examination of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities and Services. ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.pdf.
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