Bill Cullifer with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
I am here at the Google Web Tool Kit Conference the Voices that Matter series of conferences in San Francisco, CA. I have the pleasure to be interviewing Billy Hoffman regarding his session and his new book on Ajax Security.
His work has been featured in Wired and Make magazines, and on Slashdot and G4TechTV, among others. Billy is also a reviewer of white papers for the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and is a creator of Stripe Snoop, a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares data from magnetic stripes. Billy is the author of Ajax Security (Addison-Wesley), and just published this month.
According to Billy, “One of the things about using any programming technology to build out a web site is the requirement to ensure that good coding practices are followed. When I wrote the article about AJAX training goes wrong, the intent was to show that the training material brought into the classroom was not satisfactory because it did not follow good programming standards by any sense of the meaning “secure coding”. The initial database string was in VB Script, and demonstrated the idea that bad coding practices in training will carry over into bad coding practices in real life.”
Check out his new book at: http://www.amazon.com/Ajax-Security-Billy-Hoffman/dp/0321491939