"The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" book covers the rules for secure coding using Java programming language. InfoQ spoke with book authors on how these rules can help Java developers.

October 1, 2014—While conducting the research that produced The CERT® Oracle® Coding Standard for Java, the Secure Coding Team in the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at ...

Look for vulnerabilities in your code, take advantage of the Java security APIs and packages, and use third-party tools to monitor and log your code for security issues.

When building secure Java applications, it's important to make sure there are no plain text passwords anywhere in the code base.

New research from software security specialist Fortify reveals that bugs are far less common in Java compared with commercial C/C++ code ...

Plain text passwords waiting to be hacked Developers are still coding plain text passwords into their applications. Sometimes plain text passwords appear in the source code. Sometimes they’re stored ...