Industry group issues “essentials” for developing safe code A group of secure-programming experts plans a series of documents that outline the skills coders need to write Web applications that ...

The flaw allowed untrusted Java code, executing within an otherwise secure JVM, to invoke any executable (i.e., format) if the code had been given the legitimate ability to invoke at least one ...

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

"The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" book covers the rules for secure coding using Java programming language. InfoQ spoke with book authors on how these rules can help Java developers.

What are your thoughts on transfer of secure coding practices across different languages? Could you share a couple of code snippets showing insecure code/rectified code in Java and something similar ...

Scripting for More Secure Java Code Because she works on a DevSecOps team, Boyarsky thinks a lot about process automation across enterprises with many teams.

Many security exploits can go unnoticed by security testing applications, which can create high risks at a later stage of deployment. But, if you make secure code reviews a regular part of the ...

Faced with an onslaught of malware attacks that leverage vulnerabilities and design weaknesses in Java, Oracle Corp. recently tweaked things so that Java now warns users about the security risks ...

New research from software security specialist Fortify reveals that bugs are far less common in Java compared with commercial C/C++ code ...

Father of Java James Gosling assures the programming language will remain secure even after it becomes fully open source.