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Vulnerabilities as Blind Spots in Developer's Heuristic-Based Decision-Making Processes

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Cappos, Justin Yeh, Kuo-Chuan Oliveira, Daniela Zhuang, Yanyan Rosenthal, Marissa
Abstract	The security community spares no effort in emphasizing security awareness and the importance of building secure software. However, the number of new vulnerabilities found in today's systems is still increasing. Furthermore, old and well-studied vulnerability types such as buffer overflows and SQL injections, are still repeatedly reported in vulnerability databases. Historically, the common response has been to blame the developers for their lack of security education. This paper discusses a new hypothesis to explain this problem by introducing a new security paradigm where software vulnerabilities are viewed as developers' blind spots in their decision making. We argue that such a flawed mental process is heuristic-based, where humans solve problems without considering all the information available, just like taking shortcuts. This paper's thesis is that security thinking tends to be left out by developers during their programming, as vulnerabilities usually exist in corner cases with unusual information flows. Leveraging this paradigm, this paper introduces a novel methodology for capturing and understanding security-related blind spots in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Finally, it discusses how this methodology can be applied to the design and implementation of the next generation of automated diagnosis tools.
Starting Page	53
Ending Page	62
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450330626
DOI	10.1145/2683467.2683472
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-09-15
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Blind spots Automated checker Heuristics Api Cueing Puzzles Vulnerabilities
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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