The Dark Side of Game Texturing or Writing Secure Code

The Dark Side of Game Texturing

Author: David Franson

Charred ruins, bullet holes, rusted metal—if you're a fan of 3D first-person-shooter games, then you're familiar with those amazing, ominous textures that draw you into your character's surroundings. Get ready to analyze—and re-create—the textures and graphics used in these games. All you need is a decent PC, Photoshop, and a digital camera. Once you learn how to create the textures within this book, you can create any texture for any game. Not a born artist? That's okay. You'll learn how to let Photoshop do most of the work. Begin with texturing basics, including pixel sizes, color modes, and alpha channels. Then jump right into hearty texture tutorials as you create everything from sci-fi backgrounds and molten lava to medieval castle walls and dragon skin. If you're ready to travel to the grim back alleys of your imagination, then you're ready for "The Dark Side of Game Texturing".

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Writing Secure Code

Author: Michael Howard

Keep black-hat hackers at bay with the tips and techniques in this entertaining, eye-opening book! Developers will learn how to padlock their applications throughout the entire development process-from designing secure applications to writing robust code that can withstand repeated attacks to testing applications for security flaws. Short, easily digested chapters reveal proven principles, strategies, and coding techniques. The authors-two battle-scarred veterans who have solved some of the industry's toughest security problems-provide sample code in several languages. This edition includes updated information about threat modeling, designing a security process, international issues, file-system issues, adding privacy to applications, and performing security code reviews. It also includes enhanced coverage of buffer overruns, Microsoft(r) .NET security, and Microsoft ActiveX(r) development, plus practical checklists for developers, testers, and program managers.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Pt. I	Contemporary Security
1	The Need for Secure Systems	3
2	The Proactive Security Development Process	23
3	Security Principles to Live By	51
4	Threat Modeling	69
Pt. II	Secure Coding Techniques
5	Public Enemy #1: The Buffer Overrun	127
6	Determining Appropriate Access Control	171
7	Running with Least Privilege	207
8	Cryptographic Foibles	259
9	Protecting Secret Data	299
10	All Input Is Evil!	341
11	Canonical Representation Issues	363
12	Database Input Issues	397
13	Web-Specific Input Issues	413
14	Internationalization Issues	439
Pt. III	Even More Secure Coding Techniques
15	Socket Security	455
16	Securing RPC, ActiveX Controls, and DCOM	477
17	Protecting Against Denial of Service Attacks	517
18	Writing Secure .NET Code	535
Pt. IV	Special Topics
19	Security Testing	567
20	Performing a Security Code Review	615
21	Secure Software Installation	627
22	Building Privacy into Your Application	641
23	General Good Practices	663
24	Writing Security Documentation and Error Messages	695
Pt. V	Appendixes
A	Dangerous APIs	713
B	Ridiculous Excuses We've Heard	723
C	A Designer's Security Checklist	729
D	A Developer's Security Checklist	731
E	A Tester's Security Checklist	737
	A Final Thought	739
	Annotated Bibliography	741
	Index	747