Hackers' perspectives on Software and Secure Programming

Massimo Cotrozzi ( Sertytude )

What is a computer program? it is a mean to provide a user with an easy way to elaborate data in a timely manner. There are a lot of different kind of programs, device drivers, operating systems, network services, web services, standalone applications, and all of which manipulate data in different way for different reasons. The purpose of software engineers is to write the best programs to achieve the most complicated functions in the most effective way. ecurity by design is only lately coming into development' process, and it's identified as a cost, rather than an investment. Hackers have a complete different way of looking at software. They don't have time limits, don't have budgets, and they WANT to do what they do. Not always for a reward. We will go through the hackers' path to see secure programming from a different angle, so that a new perspective could be brought into the design process.