Code quality and security analyses are being united through the integration of products from Coverity and Armorize Technologies, the companies are announcing on Tuesday.
The integration will link Coverity Static Analysis, for code analysis, with Armorize CodeSecure, for security analysis. Integrations will be featured in upgrades of the two products planned for the end of this calendar year.
Apple has responded to press inquiries about the hacking of iTunes user accounts and fraudulent purchases made through its App Store, but the company has yet to come clean about the extent of the incident or the pressing questions it raises about the securi
The security of Apple’s iTunes App Store is in question this week, as reports surfaced over the weekend about large-scale compromises of customer accounts and efforts to game the company’s Application ecosystem for illicit profit.
The iPad is everybody’s “it” device: new, bright, sexy, and — as with everything Apple produces — oh so stylish and fun to use. It’s a transformative item worthy of all the press it has garnered.
After scoffing at the idea of tightening its application ecosystem, Facebook is now taking the tiniest of baby steps in that very direction.
Adobe will ship today its renamed digital rights management software for the Flash platform. Previously known Flash Media Rights Management Server, the new incarnation is called Flash Access 2.0. The company already had announced intentions to shorten the name and will roll out the upgrade at New York’s Streaming Media East conference.
Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.
Not every software company has to deal with bugs as critical as the ones believed to have contributed to accidents involving Toyota cars, but one thing is becoming increasingly clear: Every software company ships products with hidden security defects. There are virtually no exceptions.
Where are the greatest Web-related security threats today? Analysis of Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) reveals that in 2009 social networks were at the greatest risk, malware and defacement remained the most common outcome of Web attacks, and SQL injection was the most common attack vector. Here’s a deeper dive on the findings and what you can do about them.
Google has fixed a Web flaw that gave hackers a way to take control of Google Buzz accounts. The flaw was patched late Tuesday, just hours after being disclosed on a Web-hacking blog run by Robert Hansen, CEO of SecTheory.
A loose consortium of security experts from more than 30 organizations today called on enterprises to exert more pressure on their software vendors to ensure that they use secure code development practices.
Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to its Chrome browser, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year.
If you caught “InfoWorld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies” in November, you had a running start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our list of top products as well.
Think your wireless service is crummy? Just wait until next year when the spectrum drought really hits home. And maybe you’ve been telling your users that installing a graphics card in an office PC is a waste of money. If that’s the case, you’re missing a chance to make them a lot more productive (as long as the games stay at home). You’ve known about CMOS for years. But do you know that an emerging technology called PCMOS, which uses non-Boolean logic, is on the verge of slashing power consumption in ASICs?
Adobe’s Flash Player software is on 99 percent of Internet-connected desktops, offering up multimedia and video capabilities on a multitude of popular Web sites such as YouTube. But the Adobe Flash platform has been beset by a rash of security problems that give intruders potential access to computers running the software.
I continue to be impressed with the changes coming in Office 2010 (currently in beta). Previously, I explained how Microsoft drew on real-world usage data to craft the beta suite’s updated UI. Security is another priority for the upcoming release, and while the improvements there aren’t as readily apparent, for developers they’re equally noteworthy.
The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged this week during testimony before Congress.
Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process.
The Agile guidelines apply principles from Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) to Agile, an umbrella term for a development model frequently used for Web-based applications released under short deadlines, called “sprints.”
