When Web 2.0 fails review
Reviews Hoffman used the fictional example of Billy's Bookstore, a traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore whose online site uses Amazon.com's API to transparently provide its customers with an extended book search.
[August 30, 2006, 9:45]
JavaScript bug-hunting tool revealed
News As expected, SPI Dynamics researcher Billy Hoffman demonstrated a web application vulnerability scanner written in JavaScript. The tool, called Jikto, can make an unsuspecting web user's PC silently crawl and audit public websites, and send the...
[March 26, 2007, 9:38]
HP offers developers free Flash-app security tool
News HP SWFScan decompiles Flash applications and searches the code for vulnerabilities and violations of Adobe's best security practices guidelines, said Billy Hoffman, manager of HP's Web Security Research Group.
[March 23, 2009, 13:23]
JavaScript plus AJAX equals trouble review
Reviews That sentiment seems to be shared by Billy Hoffman. To demonstrate the difference in the experience, Hoffman asked everyone to recall the pre-AJAX service MapQuest circa 2000, where if you wanted to zoom in on a city street, you had to wait for the...
[August 21, 2006, 15:00]
HP researchers develop browser-based darknet
News However, HP researchers Billy Hoffman and Matt Wood plan next week to demonstrate a browser-based darknet called 'Veiled', which they claim requires little proficiency to set up and run. Hoffman and Wood are scheduled to demonstrate the technology...
[July 24, 2009, 17:19]
JavaScript attack maps secure networks
News We have discovered a technique to scan a network, fingerprint all the Web-enabled devices found and send attacks or commands to those devices," said Billy Hoffman, lead engineer at Web security specialist SPI Dynamics.
[July 31, 2006, 9:00]
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News Meanwhile, Jeremiah Grossman will talk more about "Hacking intranet websites from the outside (Take 2) — fun with and without JavaScript malware", and Billy Hoffman will team with Brian Sullivan to discuss "Ajax-ulation", a talk about building a...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
HP darknet 'not for dissidents'
Blog Wood and fellow HP researcher Billy Hoffman will demonstrate their darknet, called 'Veiled', at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Friday. Technology developed by HP to enable secure communications networks to be set up via a web...
[July 28, 2009, 16:52]
Mozilla updates fix critical Firefox flaws
News The company credited Billy Hoffman with reporting this vulnerability. Four are ranked by Mozilla as critical, one high, two moderate and the rest of the patches are considered low-priority. About half do not apply to Firefox 3.
[September 25, 2008, 10:39]
PDF threat worse than first thought
News This means any JavaScript can access the user's local machine," Billy Hoffman, lead engineer at SPI Dynamics, said in an emailed statement. By contrast, a link to a PDF hosted on a website with malicious JavaScript code would run on the user's...
[January 5, 2007, 7:24]
Google OS plan puts Chrome security in spotlight
News It's a fairly clean translation," said Billy Hoffman, manager of the web security research group at HP. The innovation [coming out] of the browser wars is bringing more and better security," Hoffman said.
[July 23, 2009, 17:02]
