Six common mistakes in implementing network software led to scores of vulnerabilities, highlighting the impact that complex design requirements and ambiguous specifications can have on software security, according to two security researchers who plan to talk about at next week’s Black Hat Asia conference. Daniel dos Santos, research manager at network security firm Forescout, and Shlomi Oberman, CEO of security consultancy JSOF, will discuss their teams’ collaborative work on defining six anti-patterns, or common software mistakes, that have led to vulnerabilities in a variety of TCP/IP stacks.

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