Security's School of Hard Knocks

[Daniel ~]

Written by Daniel
Monday, 13 August 2007

Security pros share five of the toughest lessons they've ever learned, and they've got the scars to prove them
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AUGUST 9, 2007 | "The first cut is the deepest."
While we were never exactly sure what that old song lyric had to with trying to love again, it certainly comes to mind as IT security professionals discuss the one incident that taught them the most painful lesson of their careers.
It's not easy to get people to talk about their mistakes. "So how did it feel when you hit your thumb with the hammer? What do you wish you’d done differently?"

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[dsio]

Lesson 1: PHP programmers are idiots.

Lesson 2: Don't let people install proprietary blogging software with known XML-RPC vulerabilities. (see lesson 1)

Some of these guys only got into programming because the burger-flipping joint they previously worked at didn't trust them not to pick their noses in front of customers.

[Daniel ~]

To be honest, I can think of few better reasons to move into programming!! ":O}

[Favu]

I... I can program!

(my alarm clock!)

[Daniel ~]

Think you could do a "How-To" for us!? Of course if your short on time, what with being a late sleeper... We will ALL understand.":O}