My name is Laurie Mercer, and I have introduced a security vulnerability into software. The year was 2004. As I travelled to work, Franz Ferdinand and The Killers blared on my cool new iPod. I was a developer, my first proper job after graduating with a degree in computer science and moving to the big city. Responsible for implementing functional changes, I would code new forms and business logic… READ MORE

Fred arrives at his customer site with a brief job description, a name, address and telephone number. The job is a secure code reviewer. Secure code reviewers are often employed to try to find security weaknesses during or at the end of a development cycle. A security consultant, typically a penetration tester or secure coding expert, will look at the source code and try to find weaknesses such… READ MORE