Spat Over MS 'flaw' Gets Heated
News Microsoft launched its Visual C++.Net and Visual C++ Version 7 on Wednesday and wasn't pleased when, just a few hours later, software-reliability company Cigital stated that a feature of those programs is "flawed.
[February 18, 2002, 13:03]
Did MS Bug Alarm Go Off Too Early?
News Gary McGraw, chief technology officer for Cigital, said the company followed the unwritten rules of responsible disclosure in the company's announcement. Late Wednesday, Dulles, Virginia-based Cigital told The Wall Street Journal of a flaw in...
[February 15, 2002, 9:05]
Bug-reporting Protocol Draws Flak
News As an example, Guninski draws on the recent disclosure of a bug in Microsoft's .Net framework and the Windows operating system by software risk management firm Cigital. Although Cigital said it followed the unwritten rules of responsible disclosure...
[February 27, 2002, 12:40]
Flaw Found In MS Security Patch
News The stack holds all sorts of information (such as) local variables and pointers to places," said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer at Cigital, which discovered the problem. Software security company Cigital says the compiler contains a flaw...
[February 14, 2002, 14:04]
Software Bug Dictionary Aims To Cut Confusion
News Some of the source code security companies, such as Cigital, have already committed to using CWE, according to Mitre. We have (everything but the) kitchen sink today, but in a good way," said Sean Barnum, a managing consultant at Cigital who has...
[March 2, 2007, 8:27]
Visual Studio Develops .Net Strategy
News Thurs 14 Feb: Software security company Cigital warns that a compiler which accompanies the new Visual C++.Net tool is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack STREAMED VIDEO: Gates unveils Visual Studio.Net
[February 13, 2002, 11:07]
Software To Blame For Security Problems
News He subsequently went to work for Reliable Software Technologies, now called Cigital, and gained attention in computer security circles for the books he co-authored on Java security. There's only one problem with software development these days...
[December 3, 2001, 10:39]
Group To Set Bug-reporting Standards
News Earlier in February, security company Cigital touched off a responsible-disclosure debate when it informed The Wall Street Journal of the limitations of a security feature in Microsoft's latest tools for creating Windows and .Net applications.
[February 22, 2002, 10:56]
