Re: [SC-L] Integrated Dynamic and Static Scanning

2009-07-30 Thread Brad Andrews
While I completely agree with this statement, it is a much tougher sell to management that is seeking to keep the company making money (or perhaps even alive). I believe that having (and using) an imperfect tool is better than nothing, so I would at least push for that. Getting things

Re: [SC-L] Integrated Dynamic and Static Scanning

2009-07-30 Thread Brad Andrews
That is certainly true. I was just commenting on the issue of systems that work together tightly. None do now (as far as I know), but this should potentially allow that to happen. I did here a few moans when this news came out, since IBM is not known for inexpensiveness from what I

Re: [SC-L] Source or Binary

2009-07-30 Thread Paco Hope
On 7/29/09 8:08 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Of course it's a binary, it runs by itself, when there is a java vm to run it. Just like you need a win32 vm to run a typical .exe. You misunderstand the notion of virtual machines if you think of Win32 as a virtual machine. There is

Re: [SC-L] Source or Binary

2009-07-30 Thread Wall, Kevin
In a message dated July 30, 2009 10:09 AM EDT, Paco Hope wrote... The Java Virtual Machine is a theoretical machine, and Java code is compiled down to Java bytecode that runs on this theoretical machine. The Java VM is the actual Windows EXE that runs on the real hardware. It reads these

Re: [SC-L] CERIAS : Beware SQL injections due to missing prepared statement support

2009-07-30 Thread Pascal Meunier
Actually it's not vulnerable because the strings are escaped first. My point is simply that using prepared statements would have been more robust than escaping strings on the client side. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear, I'll go edit my post now. Thanks! Pascal Kenneth Van Wyk wrote:

[SC-L] Static Vs. Binary

2009-07-30 Thread John Steven
Something occurred to me last night as I pondered where this discussion¹s tendrils are taking us. An point I only made implicitly is this: The questionfor yearshas been ³conduct your SA on source code or binary?². You can see that there are interesting subtleties in even those languages that

Re: [SC-L] Static Vs. Binary

2009-07-30 Thread Pravir Chandra
First, I generally agree that there are many factors that make the true and factual fidelity of static analysis really REALLY difficult. However, I submit that by debating this point, you're belaboring the correct angle of survivable Neptunian atmospheric entry with people that don't generally