Two phrases often heard around the computing halls are the phrases “hard wired” and “soft coded”. If something in an application is hard coded, it is bad – or so goes the consensus. Hard coding ...

While it's good that more remote sensors are communicating with each other, in some cases providing sensitive information in real time, bad security practices among manufacturers of those devices ...

A security researcher has developed a tool that can automatically detect sensitive access keys that have been hard-coded inside software projects. The Truffle Hog tool was created by U.S.-based ...

From Juniper to Fortinet and Cisco, a lot of companies have been cited for having shipped products that contain hard-coded passcodes, which poses security risks to the enterprise. This common ...

What's it like to work at Microsoft? Better still, what do the people who write software at Microsoft actually do? This annotated collection of software development columns, originally written for ...

The days of "one drive fits all" are long gone, and Toshiba has just introduced two new hard drives for the surveillance and video markets. To help you tell them apart, the drives for surveillance ...

Agile software development is not just about agile principles and practices. To be successful in releasing software that positively impacts end-users, addresses technical debt, and deploys reliably, ...

Writing in a programming language. Hand coding in assembly language or in a third-generation language, such as C or Java, is the traditional way programs have been developed. In contrast, visual ...