O’Reilly: Inside RIA

        I've been consulting for Simplified Logic the creators of Nitro-LM full time for the past two years. Nitro-LM is a licensing and encryption solution for software written in C/C++, Java, Eclipse, Eclipse Plugins, and Adobe...

Vidoop is a User Experience company focused on web security. They offer a set of products and services to provide security to web users and developers, but they take a unique approach to security that provides a much better experience to end users than normal password or captcha systems. Vidoop provides three main services, all of which are based on the same underlying technology and methodology. The services are: Vidoop Secure - an all around security portal for your web-based applications myVidoop - a password manager for individual web users Vidoop Captcha - a captcha system Vidoop advertises as being bot-proof, but not human proof. I started using myVidoop for my own browsing / password needs about a month ago after seeing some of the team demo their service. I started off somewhat skeptical of the whole thing - do we really need another password management system? After about five minutes my skepticism died in the fiery glory of fan-boy fanaticism, and it hasn't died down since then. This service makes sense, and it actually works.

I've seen several blog posts recently announcing SWFScan, a free tool from HP for decompiling and inspecting swf files for security vulnerabilities. In this post, we'll take a quick glance at what the tool can do for you.

NitroLM (Nitromation License Manager) is a commercial product developed by Simplified Logic, Inc. (SLI) for managing users, products, notifications, and source code protection for applications. It started off as an internal tool to protect SLI’s 3D engineering design and...

In this article, we’ll go over an example using Interfaces, Factories, and Encryption to protect code in a SWC library from being easily decompiled.

In the RIA world, Flex and AIR applications have really taken off. With that has come increased adoption by Fortune 500 companies and new enterprise-level apps taking advantage of the Adobe Flash platform. Application and data security should always be a concern of the Flex/AIR developer. The level of paranoia the developer should implement must be weighed against the goals of the project.