Owasp

On the one hand adding dependencies to a project is easy, on the other hand securing a project and checking for vulnerable dependencies is way harder. The OWASP dependency check plugin for Maven allows us to scan our project’s dependencies for know vulnerabilities. I will demonstrate its usage in the following short example. Figure 1. OWASP Vulnerability Report Dependencies We just need to add one plugin-dependency to our Mavenized project’s pom.xml. ...

These days where a cheap GPU for about 100 € is capable to create 3 billion of MD5 Hashes per second, we need not only need to use salts the right way but we also need to choose a strong, non-reversible and slow hashing schemes when storing passwords in our application. Heimdall is a library that implements a secure and upgradable password hashing mechanism and uses at the time of writing this article PBKDF2 SHA-1 HMAC with 20000 iterations and a 192 bit (24 byte) salt per default. ...