A group of secure-programming experts plans a series of documents that outline the skills coders need to write Web applications that are better able to withstand attacks. The first of these is being ...

Common Weakness Enumeration CWE-22, commonly referred to as "path traversal", is a vulnerability in which an application does not appropriately restrict the paths that users can access via ...

Make Java security a top priority at every stage of application development, from class-level language features to API endpoint authorization Security is one of the most complex, broad, and important ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There’s really nothing new under the sun when it comes to addressing security vulnerabilities in ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...

In a tête-à-tête with ZDNet Asia at the recent Sun Tech Days developer conference in Kuala Lumpur, Gosling clears the air about Java and explains why the programming platform is now more user-friendly ...

Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios has released an emergency Minecraft security update to address a critical bug in the Apache Log4j Java logging library used by the game's Java Edition ...