Profile of Ericka Chickowski

Contributing Writer News & Commentary Posts: 614

Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. 

Moving Away From Rash Hashing Decisions

7/24/2013
Black Hat talk will discuss shortcomings of the latest technical evolution of hashing passwords for safe storage in databases, propose a competition to design something better
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Getting Physical At Black Hat

7/23/2013
Researchers offer up work on breaking into buildings by hacking alarm key pad sensors and key card access control systems
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Will IT GRC Become IRM?

7/18/2013
Analysts report a shift toward Integrated Risk Management across the enterprise, but IT risk management experts argue on how it'll happen
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Security Spending Still Doesn't Follow Attack And Breach Trends

7/17/2013
Databases may be at risk of the most severe damages from attacks, but the network layer still gobbles up most of the security cash
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CSRF Still Armed And Dangerous

7/17/2013
Cross-site request forgery may not get the same attention as SQLi or XSS, but it still poses considerable risk to Web apps
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WordPress, Other CMS Platforms Give Attackers Room For Creativity

7/15/2013
Hackers use vulns in content management systems to accomplish everything from privilege escalation on servers to using connections to run command and control
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Browser Plug-In Vulns The Endpoint's Weakest Link

7/12/2013
Online infections, exploit kit damage wreaked due to poor browser plug-in hygiene
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New Techniques Obfuscate, Optimize SQL Injection Attacks

7/5/2013
Black Hat researcher to demonstrate new methods for getting around defenses even more quickly to extract database data through SQLi
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Doing More Than Paying Risk Management Lip Service

7/3/2013
How well does your organization execute on its 'commitment' to guiding security practices through risk management?
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What's It Take To Trust A Digitally Signed Program?

7/3/2013
Last week's Opera attack stokes fears over digitally signed programs from potentially compromised vendors
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Getting The Most From Web Application Testing Results

7/2/2013
Five tips for communicating with the dev team
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