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IBM recently demo’d AppScan Developer Edition to a few of us. There used to be a DE edition of AppScan some time ago, but that was more of a scaled down version of the standard version, allowing only localhost scanning and a subset of tests. The new DE is different in what it does.

Blogging service JournalSpace is gone. They have put their domain name on eBay and are selling their servers. Everyone who used their blogging service is being pointed to instructions on how to retrieve their posts using Google’s cache. So, what happened?

MD5 is a hashing algorithm that has been in use for a long time. One of the most common uses of MD5 has been to check the integrity of files and messages. Since 1996, a steady stream of vulnerabilities have been found in this algorithm, making it less and less suitable for security applications.