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 – ...

Static code analysis and bug detection are integral to modern software engineering, providing a systematic approach to identify defects and security vulnerabilities without executing the code. By ...

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 ...

Endor Labs has collaborated with Aikido Security, Arnica, Amplify, Kodem, Legit, Mobb, and Orca Security to introduce Opengrep, an initiative designed to maintain open access to static code analysis ...

Software content has grown rapidly in all manner of medical devices. Meanwhile, society has become increasingly dependent upon their safe operation. Unfortunately, our ability to develop safe and ...

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 ...

Software teams today are shipping code faster than ever. But security and quality are clearly struggling to keep pace. In fact, 74% of companies admit that insecure code led to at least one security ...

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 ...

In its “Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008,” Coverity Inc. analyzed more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than 250 open-source projects. Detailed today, the project ...