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Anyone out there right now could be more than excused for thinking we're drowning in security start-ups; too many "me too" vendors trying to resolve the same perceived problems - niche or broad. ...

By Kimberly Chua Mobile app users in developing Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries prefer convenience over security, signaling a potential rift between companies and users, a new F5 Networks study has ...

In some ways the Meltdown and Spectre flaws represent a risk that goes to the very heart of computing. This microprocessor flaw has resulted in major network, server, PC and mobile hardware firms ...

Google is making news this week in developer circles. The search giant has come forward with a software fuzzing tool designed to fuzz open source code. What is fuzz (testing)? Fuzz testing or ...

What about yer InfoSec now? Black Duck is the roast and toast of Northern Ireland this month after the firm announced the formation of its Belfast-based Open Source Security Research Group during ...

Black Duck has created a Centre for Open Source Research & Innovation (COSRI) at its Massachusetts headquarters. The firm is a specialist in 'automated' software for securing and managing open ...

Data integration and analytics company TIBCO has released Mashery Enterprise API, essentially a piece of API management software supplied as a SaaS subscription. What is API management? In ...

Application security and software security consulting company Cigital says that its time for a new layer to be placed on top of the Agile Manifesto -- a set of principles that was released in 2001 ...

Black Duck exists to make open source code usage safer. The firm’s software is built to help deal with the fact that many firms today use a mix of custom and open source code. It detects, ...

We have already examined the ‘phenomena’ that is DevOps and asked what it really means, how it really works and how to tame this new beast here on Computer Weekly. Matthew Pendlebury, a senior ...

Retro gaming in the open source vein could be on the upswing this season. Creoqode is the London-based technology design company behind 2048, the DIY  game console with retro-style video games and ...

Computer Weekly has a topic-classification field labelled 'application security and coding requirements' and it's there for a reason. All too often we talk about security in terms of what chief ...

Immodestly named application testing company Perfecto Mobile has this month released its immodestly named Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit. Known as a vendor in the mobile front-end test ...

Why the UK needs the Mayor of London to take a lead in making the UK a safer place to go on-line, with effective reporting, investigation and prosecution based on partnership policing before ...

Yes it was World Password Day on 5th May and nonagenarian actress Betty White finds that passwords annoy the "f" "beep" out of you. Perhaps that's why the UK director general for cyber security at ...