When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As ...

Details the application of design, development, and performance testing to an automated program repair tool we built that repairs C/C++ code. Static analysis (SA) tools produce many diagnostic alerts ...

ABSTRACT: Security vulnerabilities are a widespread and costly aspect of software engineering. Although tools exist to detect these vulnerabilities, non-machine learning techniques are often rigid and ...

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 ...

Static program analysis (or static analysis) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs during ...

"Linting" is static code analysis with an eye towards style and dodgy source code constructs. The term derives from early UNIX. Some languages and their compilers do this for you; this is the case, ...

This is a pre-publication version of the article that has been accepted for publication in the August 2024 edition of “CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.” Software vulnerabilities ...

What is Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis is a method of testing source code without having to execute the code. It is usually performed by dedicated tools (for example by so-called linters), ...

PDF files are frequently exploited by threat actors to deliver payloads. Static analysis in a sandbox makes it possible to expose any threat a malicious PDF contains by extracting its structure. The ...