The awesome power of C cuts both ways. Here’s what to watch out for, and how to keep your C programs on the straight and narrow. Few programming languages can match C for sheer speed and machine-level ...

A new class of attacks against mobile phones has been noted. Using a base transceiver station (available for 1000 euro) a researcher showed how common programming errors in the communication stack of ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Roughly 30 national and international cyber-security ...

As the name implies, runtime errors occur during the execution of a software program. They occur when an application runs. Any time an application behaves in a way ...

Research that draws on large volumes of data demands greater programming literacy from scientists to ensure accurate findings. Researchers need to be aware of the ‘bugs’ – errors, flaws or faults – ...

No programmer is perfect, but some mistakes are more dangerous than others. While some mistakes might just slow down your site, others can open up vulnerabilities that expose your code, your database ...

Developers of the Top 25 list of programming errors include DHS, NSA, MITRE and the SANS Institute, and they hope to have the list included in standard contract language that would help make software ...

Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a short spike in unemployment, and disrupt some jobs, but the impact will be brief. Acrobat Studio combines Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and ...

In late 2019, the US industry non-profit MITRE Corporation updated what has become possibly the most famous software security issue ranking in computing, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 ...

A group of security luminaries lead by SANS Institute and MITRE are calling for software developers and vendors to shoulder the burden when it comes to programming mistakes in their products The ...

When Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in the mid-1990s he did so with programmer productivity as a priority. The result was a powerful, flexible language with an elegant syntax that reads and ...