39,000 ft over yet another ocean …… I just watched an old Bill Joy talk from Ted 2006 via iTunes. Two key paraphrases struck me as prophetic. “You can’t regulate the problem away” “What we need is better networks” In 2005 I did a series of public speaking events using a theme Naked security in [...]
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Series of Static Analysis Posts
December 22, 2008If you haven’t downloaded it here (or here if you run 64 bit) and run it against your .NET code you probably should. To support the CTP release of CAT.NET Andreas Fuchsberger (developer on CISG) and Ben Livshits (Microsoft Research) will be posting a series of blogs over the next few weeks about the work [...]
BI and Surface
December 17, 2008MSFT Surface + MSFT BI = sexy
CAT.NET and Anti-XSS 3.0 Released for Free
December 15, 2008We have just released a free static analysis tool for .NET and the open source Anti-XSS 3.0 library (complete with Security Run-Time Engine). http://blogs.msdn.com/cisg/archive/2008/12/15/anti-xss-3-0-beta-and-cat-net-community-technology-preview-now-live.aspx
Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten
November 21, 2008Nice article over on MSDN here.
Azure – The Microsoft Cloud Arrives!
October 27, 2008Azure Platform Home Page Windows Azure – The Cloud Services Operating System .NET Services – Access Control, Services Bus and Workflow SQL Services – Database Services Live Services – LiveID, LiveEarth, Contacts Digest that for a while (yes it really is that big), chuck in some LiveMesh and you’ll realize that Microsoft is now not [...]
.NET – New Logo!
October 25, 2008PDC is just around the corner where I hear all sorts of stuff will get announced. Watch for cloud computing (Red Dog et all), Oslo (modelling, DSL’s etc) and .NET 4.0 stuff in general. If you have ever been to TechEd or PDC you know we know how to put on an event!
SecurityNow
October 17, 2008We have just posted the first of a series of articles about a proof of concept called SecurityNow that we built at work. http://blogs.msdn.com/cisg/
Microsoft Joins OWASP
October 12, 2008If you navigate over to the OWASP members page you will see a new logo It’s an interesting full circle for me having started OWASP back in 2001 and now having had a hand in one of the biggest technology companies in the world (my current employer) joining. Someone sent me a mail on Friday [...]

Farewell Security Buddha – Hello Curphey 2.0
March 5, 2010I openly admit I had a mis-spent youth. I was expelled from school and then went on a rampage of sex, drugs, booze and rock and roll for the best part of a decade. I lived hand to mouth and did everything from stacking yogurts in a yogurt factory (working nights), selling houses, working behind [...]
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