Download at your own risk: Bitcoin miners bundled with game repacks
Recently we have seen an emerging trend among malware distributors – Bitcoin miners being integrated into installers of game repacks.
Warnings, /sdl, and improving uninitialized variable detection
Tim Burrell and Thomas Garnier of the TwC Security Science team present the sixth and last blog installment describing more /sdl functionality in Visual Studio 2012 RC. Please note that there will be an MSDN webcast discussing the security enhancements to Visual Studio 2012 RC – a wrap-up of sorts – on June 13 at 9:00AM (PST).
Secure Credential Storage
Pop security quiz: What’s the most secure way to store a secret? a)     Encrypt it with a strong symmetric cryptographic algorithm such as AES, using a 256-bit key. b)     Encrypt it with a strong asymmetric cryptographic algorithm such as RSA, using a 4096-bit key.