At a time when well-publicized security breaches have created corporate -- and public relations -- havoc, the need to create more secure software right from the beginning has never felt so urgent. But ...

Is Java safe to use? That's the refrain heard after every round of new zero-day vulnerabilities that get spotted in Java, followed days or weeks later by related patches from Oracle. But the question ...

The new series of articles "Secure Coding" provides a comprehensive guide to secure programming practices – specifically tailored to Java developers. In today's digital landscape, security is more ...

Nobody was ever fired for writing insecure code. My slightly reworked version of the popular adage, “Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM,” while not exactly true is accurate enough to be alarming.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Given the fact that the interview is being pilfered for quotes in various articles on creating ...

As with other aspects of cybersecurity, the level of programming language security depends on what we mean by “secure.” It’s true that Java has fewer identified vulnerabilities than some other ...

The article Secure Coding: Preventing unauthorized access through path traversal (CWE-22) has already described the dangers posed by the critical vulnerability CWE-22 (path traversal) in software ...