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The growing "importance" of so called “Web 2.0 social networks” and other web services in our private and business lives creates a perfect target for predatorial hackers by XSS attacks. December 19, 2007, the Register reports a Portuguese-speaking worm that attacks Google Orkut users.

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We have disabled trackbacks on all our sites that run on the Drupal CMS, due to a spam attack on satirworkshops.com.

Satirworkshops attracted over 192.000 spams (increasing with several a second), causing the server's log files to fill up. WE have deleted the spams, and denied access to /trackback on all drupal sites. That way we prevent satirworkshops and other sites from being spammed, and our log files don't fill up too much, so all sites and services can continue to run..

We have done a quick investigation for anti-spam measures on drupal trackback, and found none. Hence the drastic measure above, unfortunately.

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secappdev.org is proud to announce a one-week intensive course in secure application development. secappdev.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving security awareness and skills in the developer community. The course is a joint project with K.U. Leuven, Solvay Business School and L-SEC.

Developers focus on providing functionality, not on security. In contrast to security personnel who are paid to stop bad things from happening, developers' contribution to the value chain is building enabling technology. Despite increasing malicious targeting and exploitation of applications, this is the correct priority.

Nonetheless, the software industry is being forced to re-examine the way software is built, shipped and deployed. The traditional approach of securing the perimeter is proving to be inadequate and it is apparent that developers have to take their share of responsibility for improving application security.