Editor’s Note: Excerpted from their book Embedded Systems Security, the authors go through an analysis of three popular, security-critical open source applications - Apache, OpenSSL, and sendmail – ...

Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may ...

AI assistants are a double-edged sword for developers. On one hand, code-generation assistants have made creating barebones applications easier and led to a surge in code pushed to GitHub. Yet just as ...