As you probably know by now, the pattern of 1s and 0s on the cover of the 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report contains a hidden message. I decided to give it a whirl and eventually figured it out. No doubt plenty of people managed to beat me to it, as evidenced by the fact that I didn’t get my solution in early enough to win the cash prize — but so far, I haven’t seen anybody write up a walkthrough, so I thought I’d do one.

If you haven’t taken a crack at it yet …

If you’re at RSA this week, be sure to check out this panel discussion, featuring Veracode’s Chris Wysopal along with Jerry Archer, Mary Ann Davidson, and Brian Chess. Abstract as follows:

The growth of Web 2.0 has highlighted two significant trends in application security. First, as the network has hardened, attacks against applications have dramatically increased. Second, an explosion in use of dynamic code has resulted in serious security problems. This panel will discuss these problems and provide software assurance through use of source code versus binary code analysis.

The session is AND-105 and it’s happening on Tuesday, April 21 at …