HP Software Business Technology Optimization Go to Market With SPI Dynamics
White Papers In this webcast the presenter will cover HP's acquisition of SPI Dynamics, a leading provider of web application security assessment software and services. With the addition of SPI Dynamics, HP Software now offers the most comprehensive portfolio...
[November 15, 2007, 0:01]
JavaScript bug-hunting tool revealed
News As expected, SPI Dynamics researcher Billy Hoffman demonstrated a web application vulnerability scanner written in JavaScript. Another SPI Dynamics representative at ShmooCon said the company had decided not to release Jikto because that could play...
[March 26, 2007, 9:38]
PDF threat worse than first thought
News Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit the problem to access all information on a victim's hard disk drive, said web security specialists at WhiteHat Security and SPI Dynamics. This means any JavaScript can access the user's local...
[January 5, 2007, 7:24]
JavaScript attack maps secure networks
News Both SPI Dynamics and WhiteHat Security came up with the JavaScript-based network scanner at about the same time, he said. But a key advantage of the SPI Dynamics vulnerability is that it is difficult to fix without breaking many Web applications.
[July 31, 2006, 9:00]
Yahoo security weakness revealed
News Sacha Faust, a senior research engineer at SPI Dynamics, a computer security firm in Atlanta, said: "It requires a fair amount of time and work until you actually get into those accounts. SPI Dynamics' Faust said: "I think the [internet] industry...
[December 21, 2005, 15:05]
JavaScript plus AJAX equals trouble review
Reviews He's a researcher at SPI Dynamics who, while criticising businesses that race to deliver AJAX-enabled Web sites without regard to security, focused his two Black Hat Web 2.0 presentations on the potential troubles lurking within AJAX -- in...
[August 21, 2006, 15:00]
When Web 2.0 fails review
Reviews But Billy Hoffman, security researcher with SPI Dynamics, warned at this year's Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas that such convenience can invite trouble for both the user and the Web site. In this Web 2.0 world, mashups are red hot.
[August 30, 2006, 9:45]
Oasis to create an XML security standard
News The companies participating in the Oasis WAS technical committee include NetContinuum, Qualys, Sanctum, and SPI Dynamics. The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or Oasis, on Wednesday announced the formation of...
[May 28, 2003, 15:56]
USB devices offer an old-school way to steal data review
Reviews In a Black Hat talk entitled 'Plug and root: the USB key to the kingdom', researchers Darrin Barrall and David Dewey, both of SPI Dynamics, a security firm, outlined two flaws they found in the way Windows XP drivers handle Universal Serial Bus...
[August 22, 2005, 11:05]
No slowdown in HP's software expansion quest
News HP has bought five companies in the past 16 months: Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology and Peregrine. HP has been on an extensive buying spree in the software business but, far from being sated, the company's appetite...
[November 29, 2007, 13:25]
HP close to EDS buyout
News In recent years, HP has also been spending significant sums on the acquisitions of corporate infrastructure software companies, including Mercury Interactive, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology and Peregrine.
[May 13, 2008, 12:35]
