Securing the Code: Building a Culture of Credential Protection in Dev Teams

Credential protection is key to preventing breaches. Secure APIs, rotate secrets and train devs to handle credentials safely…...

ThreatList: Google Play Nine Times Safer Than Third-Party App Stores

Bearing out the conventional wisdom that avoiding third-party app stores is a security best practice, new data from Google shows that Android devices that only download apps from Google Play are nine times less likely to end up with malware. According to Google’s inaugural Android Ecosystem...

Why bad coding habits die hard—and 7 ways to kill them

Developers are usually the focus of blame when software vulnerabilities cause organizational breaches. Sometimes, quality assurance engineers are included in the flame. Interestingly, though, hardly anyone looks at why bad coding habits form in the first place. We're talking about the culture, th...

Microsoft Aims to Make Life Harder, More Expensive For Attackers

MIAMI BEACH–It’s been a decade now since Microsoft began focusing on product security as a top priority and there have been a lot of successes and some failures along the way. But in that time, one of the things that most definitely has changed as a result of the Trustworthy Computing program is...

It's Time to Move Away From the Build or Break Mentality

SAN FRANCISCO–The vulnerability disclosure and patching arms race that has developed in the last decade or so in the security industry has made life extremely difficult not just for the developers writing code, but also for the folks who are interested in helping to fix broken applications. A new...