Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may ...

The high cost of finding and patching application flaws is well known. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to write secure code in the first place? One of the fastest growing areas in the software security ...

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source ...

Capital One has open-sourced VulnHunter, an AI security tool that finds exploitable code flaws, maps attack paths and helps developers fix vulnerabilities faster.

Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes or ...

National ICT Australia (NICTA), a research institute that attempts to commercialise projects from a selection of the country's finest academics, has been demonstrating an analysis tool that scans code ...

Part 1 of this series discussed the basics of source code analysis and why it is a useful and powerful technique for various types of investigations. Part 2 will cover the types of source code ...

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a Linux Foundation-backed initiative has released its first prototype version of the 'Package Analysis' tool that aims to catch and counter malicious ...