There are many security vulnerabilities that have been found in both proprietary software and open source software that have been fixed in a few hours of discovery, but in the closed source world, it's taken about six months for a patch to be...
The Redwood Shores, California-based enterprise software maker has started using technology from Fortify Software to analyse the source code of some of its products for potential security vulnerabilities, the companies announced on Tuesday.
Ilfak Guilfanov, a European software developer who made headlines by beating Microsoft to the punch with a fix for the Windows flaw, agreed. The software maker will update its Security Development Life Cycle, a set of practices that Microsoft's...
Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24m in funding to Coverity, Stanford University and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code...
EDS is still working to resolve technical defects on the controversial and problematic £450m Child Support Agency (CSA) computer system but the government claims performance has improved and that service levels are now "generally being met".
Since then, programmers for the Samba, Amanda and XMMS projects eliminated all the defects that the initial analysis detected, Coverity said Monday. The Amanda developers fixed 108 defects in a couple of weeks, according to Coverity.
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