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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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 ...

Self-modifying code changes its own instructions during execution. In practice, this approach certainly offers advantages, for example in terms of adaptability or code optimization. It is not ...

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 ...

News about a critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j logging library broke last week when proof-of-concept exploits started to emerge on Thursday. Log4j is an open-source Java logging framework ...

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 ...

A critical flaw in a popularly used Java library is being exploited by malicious actors to deliver malware, while security researchers are scanning for vulnerable servers. The flaw and a ...