We’ve all had to learn new ways to do things during the pandemic. Before the hair salons re-opened, many people decided to cut their own hair. Youtube has about 50,000 matches for the search “cut your own hair during lockdown”. Of course, Youtube also has a few thousand videos about
In this series, we look at how to build security into your development process: Building Better Security – Part 1. Building Better Security – Part 2: Secure Analysis. This week I look at how we can include security during the design phase.
Obfuscation makes it harder to access the intellectual property in our code. In this article we look at what a Java obfuscator does.
You might have heard the expression “to go down the rabbit hole”. It comes from the novel “Alice in Wonderland” written by Lewis Carroll in the 19th century. Alice falls down a rabbit hole, has quite a long trip, and lands in a strange place called Wonderland. A rabbit hole
In the first post in this series, I wrote about the fact that security is not a one-time task. It must be part of your whole development process. This week I want to share some thoughts about security in requirements analysis.
The Reference API in Java is a way to add a level of indirection. Indirection is the ability to reference something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself. It is an important principle in computer science.
Welcome to 2021! I hope it is going to be a productive, successful and happy year for all of us. I don’t like the term “New Year’s resolutions”. It reminds me of all the usual things that millions of people put on their list every year. Get fit, lose weight,
According to the UK IT Governance blog, 148 million records were breached in December 2020! As stories of data breaches hit the news each day, many companies are trying to patch the security of their systems as quickly as possible. That’s a start, but it’s not enough. Security is not a
The Reflection API is a way to find out about the internals of a Java class – its fields, constructors, methods and annotations. In this article we look at the Reflection API class and some example code.
Sometimes we need to decompile Java source code. This is useful to retrieve lost source code, or to see what the compiler has automatically generated. We conduct a quick experiment using two Java decompilers.
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