Palisade Magazine

Issue #34 July 2008

Defend against Reverse Engineering

by Roshen Chandran, CISSP

Software reverse engineering is the technique of getting the original source code from the binary. Competitors might use reverse engineering to figure out how you implemented that cool feature. Crackers might use it to see how they can bypass your license policy. Game cheats use reverse engineering, well, to cheat.… more →

The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS)

by Sangita Pakala, GCIH

PA DSS fills a gap in the more well known PCI DSS standard. Today, we’ll discuss this lesser-known standard. Remember that the biggies of the credit card industry put their heads together and came up with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Their aim was to protect the “Cardholder’s” data. PCI DSS was first released in 2005 and then revised in October 2006. PCI DSS has a few requirements that talk about securing web applications that deal with cardholder’s data.… more →

Cache Control Directives Demystified

by Siddharth Anbalahan

Many years ago, HTTP 1.1 introduced specialized Cache Control directives to control the behavior of browser caches and proxy caches. These were a refinement over the HTTP 1.0 headers that programmers were using to control the behavior of caches. Though these directives are several years old, we still see them being used incorrectly. In this article, we explain the meaning and relevance of the most important cache control directives.… more →

Quiz: Proposal to amend Same Origin Policy