A few years back, business came to a grinding halt for a European supermarket chain when it was infected with the Conficker virus. The virus caused the system to slowly use up all the system resources ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Organizations that use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize the patching of software security vulnerabilities reduce their potential exploitability compared with randomly ...

Enterprise Linux users face growing risks from software vulnerabilities, especially given their widespread reliance on open-source code in Linux applications and commercial software. Live kernel ...

Patching is necessary if users want to protect their software systems from internal errors or exploitation from malicious attacks. Even if the patching solution is provided for free, the process of ...

Oracle Corp. last week said it’s moving to a quarterly patch release schedule in response to demands from users for a more predictable process of applying security fixes to its software. The move ...

Most IT security woes, from software patching to cyberespionage and cybercrime, can be traced to the devastating effects wrought by the Top 25 programming errors made in software, according to a broad ...

The winners of the AI Cyber Challenge, or AIxCC, were announced this past week at DEF CON 33, the long-running hacker conference, in Las Vegas. The challenge, offered jointly by the Defense Advanced ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is imploring administrators to apply recent updates to “Confluence”—collaboration software made by Atlassian—in an event officials have been ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XENOptics, a leading enabler of zero touch fiber networks, is showcasing its software-defined patching solution at OFC 2017. The XENOptics solution includes an automated ...

I want to begin by apologizing to everyone who has written of late and not seen his or her comments in this missive. I love showcasing reader thoughts and I’m well behind on doing so. (Am I the only ...