Editor’s Note: Excerpted from their book Embedded Systems Security, the authors go through an analysis of three popular, security-critical open source applications - Apache, OpenSSL, and sendmail – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Klocwork this week announced shipments of Klocwork Insight, bringing system-wide source code analysis to the developer desktop, the company said. The company has filed multiple patents on what it ...

To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and ...

Cycuity’s Radix-ST leverages static analysis techniques to help identify and resolve security weaknesses earlier in chip design. Cycuity, Inc., a leader in advanced hardware security solutions, ...

Sonar, the leading provider of integrated code quality and code security solutions, is unveiling SonarQube Advanced Security, a significant advancement in code security which will soon be available.

AI assistants are a double-edged sword for developers. On one hand, code-generation assistants have made creating barebones applications easier and led to a surge in code pushed to GitHub. Yet just as ...

Concurrency bug detection is a critical area in the development of multithreaded programmes, where errors arising from simultaneous thread execution can lead to unpredictable and often catastrophic ...