CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Today in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale.

The impact of these errors is far reaching. Just two of them led to more than 1.5 million web site security breaches during 2008 - and those breaches cascaded onto the computers of people who visited those web sites, turning their computers into zombies.

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17 molecules that changed the world

All molecules are not created equal. Some have saved billions of lives, wreaked environmental havoc or made the world a more colourful place. Some of the common molecules are salt, aspirin, penicillin, etc.

[via COSMOS magazine]