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 ...

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 ...

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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 Carnegie ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated the 'detectors' in its CodeGuru Reviewer tool to seek out log injection flaws like the recently disclosed Log4Shell bug in the popular Java logging library Log4J.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...