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Title	The 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security
Type	Resource
Source	McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Summary	"Ninety-five percent of software bugs are caused by the same 19 programming flaws," says Amit Yoran, Former Director of The Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. Learn how to eliminate these flaws from your code. The chapter available for download here addresses sin #1: buffer overruns. Authors: Michael Howard, David LeBlanc and John Viega ISBN: 0072260858 Posted with permission of McGraw-Hill/Osborne. Click here for a detailed description and to learn how to purchase this title. continue

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