software vulnerability
Google Uses Its Big Sleep AI Agent to Find SQLite Security Flaw
Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that ...
Understanding Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and It’s Role in Software Supply Chain
In May 2021, the US government signed an Executive Order mandating that software suppliers selling to the government must include a Software Bill of Material… ...
With Vulnerability Management, Enterprises Seek to Get Proactive
It seems every few weeks there’s another major vulnerability. In early December 2021, we had Log4j, the vulnerability in the open source logging library Apache Log4j, which is used near ubiquitously. And ...
Patching Process Remains a Security Bottleneck
Patching continues to be overly complex, cumbersome and time-consuming, trends that are likely to persist as remote work increases the complexity and scale of patch management. And that’s a major security risk ...
Congress Wants Written Answers from Apple on FaceTime Privacy Glitch
Apple is not getting off so easily with the FaceTime privacy violation incident. Two members of the US Congress are “deeply troubled” that the company didn’t immediately address the software glitch end ...
US Homeland Security systems run on outdated, unpatched software, audit finds
The US Department of Homeland Security is pretty bad at digitally protecting national security interests, says an audit report released on March 7 by the agency’s watchdog, the Office of Inspector General ...
