"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.

Look for vulnerabilities in your code, take advantage of the Java security APIs and packages, and use third-party tools to monitor and log your code for security issues.

The Java paper is open for public comment until Dec. 1 at spa@sans.org. While secure-programming can help, it’s not enough, Paller notes.

Amazon Web Services' automated code review helps developers find serious security issues in Java and Python applications.

When building secure Java applications, it's important to make sure there are no plain text passwords anywhere in the code base.

‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system The Log4Shell exploit gives attackers a simple way to execute code on any vulnerable machine ...

The truth of the matter is, a large number of vulnerabilities exist in production code not because hackers are coming up with new ways to penetrate systems, but because developers and DevOps personnel ...

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

The usage of the nasty vulnerability in the Java logging library Apache Log4j that allowed unauthenticated remote code execution could have kicked off as early as December 1. "Earliest evidence we ...