weaknesses

Python vs all the major professional languages

I've been reading up a lot lately on comparisons between Python and a bunch of the more traditional professional languages - C, C++, Java, etc, mainly trying to find out if its as good as those would be for my own purposes. I can't get this thought out of my head that it isn't good for 'real' programming tasks beyond automation and macro...

Test catalogs - common bugs or test cases

I'm looking for catalogs of common bugs, weaknesses, and test cases or questions for software. In Lessons Learned in Software Testing I saw an example test catalog, but I typically can't find good, specific test catalogs out there for various common features or feature types. Can someone point me to a resource? Perhaps a community wik...

Security hole in windows server 2008, how to make money out of it ?

Playing with windows server 2008 and IIS 7 I encountered a weakness which allows running an executable on the web server. I tried my friends VPS server and it seems working on at least web and enterprise editions. I'm not a hacker and just found it accidentally when I was testing my web application. The question is how can I report it a...