code review
Low code applications are essential for cybersecurity development in applications
One of the biggest changes to the cybersecurity landscape is that developers are now often expected to implement security directly into the applications they’re building as …
Code review: How satisfied are development teams?
Code review remains the biggest influence on improving code quality with unit testing a distant second, a SmartBear survey reveals. With development teams getting larger and …
Trojan Source bugs may lead to extensive supply-chain attacks on source code
Cambridge University researchers have detailed a new way targeted vulnerabilities can be introduced into source code while making them invisible to human code reviewers, …
The basics of security code review
With staffing ratios often more than 200 developers for every AppSec professional, scaling security requires increasing the developer’s engagement in securing the product. To …
GitHub envisions a world with fewer software vulnerabilities
After five months in beta, the GitHub Code Scanning security feature has been made generally available to all users: for free for public repositories, as a paid option for …
GitHub Code Scanning aims to prevent vulnerabilities in open source software
GitHub has made available two new security features for open and private repositories: code scanning (as a GitHub-native experience) and secret scanning (both still in beta). …
Automate manual security, risk, and compliance processes in software development
The future of business relies on being digital – but all software deployed needs to be secure and protect privacy. Yet, responsible cybersecurity gets in the way of what any …
Microsoft Application Inspector: Check open source components for unwanted features
Want to know what’s in an open source software component before you use it? Microsoft Application Inspector will tell you what it does and spots potentially unwanted …
Mozilla will use AI coding assistant to preemptively catch Firefox bugs
Mozilla will start using Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant developed by Ubisoft, to make the Firefox code-writing process more efficient and to prevent the introduction of …
OpenEMR vulnerabilities put patients’ info, medical records at risk
A slew of vulnerabilities in OpenEMR allowed attackers to access random patients’ health records, view data from a target database, escalate their privileges on the …
Custom code accounts for 93% of application vulnerabilities
Although third-party software libraries represent a majority of an application’s code, they account for less than seven percent of application vulnerabilities. Typically, …
Organizations are not effectively dealing with open source security threats
Black Duck conducts hundreds of open source code audits annually, primarily related to Merger & Acquisition transactions. Its Center for Open Source Research & …