Threatpost News Wrap #4: Crypto libraries, cybersecurity czar job

Author: Chris Brook

June 12, 2009 3:32 pm

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher talk about the problems with developers implementing their own crypto libraries in Web applications, the short list of names for the cybersecurity czar job and the possibility of a full-scale hacker bracket competition.

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher talk about the problems with developers implementing their own crypto libraries in Web applications, the short list of names for the cybersecurity czar job and the possibility of a full-scale hacker bracket competition.

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