In today’s IT environments, security has become a major concern. Despite recent reports of software vulnerabilities in open source code, including Shellshock, the OpenSSL Heartbleed and GoToFail, ...

Security firm Snyk has disclosed a widespread and critical flaw in multiple archive file-extraction libraries found in thousands of open-source web application projects from HP, Amazon, Apache, Oracle ...

The open source software that the vast majority of organizations include in their critical applications is vulnerable to exploitation from threat actors taking part in its creation. That's the message ...

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Application Inspector, a cross-platform open-source command-line tool that its engineers use to quickly probe third-party open-source software components for ...

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Software consortium Eclipse says Big Blue's contribution will form the basis of its Visual Editor Project. But Java steward Sun is not yet ready to join the effort. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...