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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We recently asked security maven Steve Orrin to tell us some of the tenets of secure coding today. While this was once an administrator's main look-see, it has become part of the developer's job in ...

Oracle has issued a security alert for a Java vulnerability that if exploited can give attackers control and access to a user’s personal information. The vulnerability means that attackers can access ...

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 ...