shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a “horrible mistake” and a virtually endless source of security vulnerabilities. This is evident in nearly half of ...

The Java Serialization API provides a standard ... Ax has previously exposed serious bugs and security vulnerabilities impacting major national and global organizations.

PayPal has rewarded two researchers with bug bounties for the discovery of a Java serialization vulnerability in ... presented at the 2015 AppSecCali security conference, and was paid under ...

In fact, he called the decision to adopt the current serialization feature a "horrible mistake," and a virtually endless source of security vulnerabilities. Java object serialization is the process of ...

Oracle plans to drop support for data serialization/deserialization from the main body of the Java language, according to Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java ...

We like to call serialization 'the gift that keeps on giving,' and the type of gift it keeps on giving is security vulnerabilities.... Probably a third of all Java vulnerabilities have involved ...

Make Java security a top priority at every stage of application development, from class-level language features to API endpoint authorization Security is one of the most complex, broad, and ...

The vulnerability is part of a class of bugs that stem from Java object deserialization and which security researchers have warned about a year ago. In programming languages, serialization is the ...

Researchers have built proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatched unserialize vulnerability in Apache ... But hundreds of other products use Java serialization and some that are exposed to the ...

IBM's x-force application security research team has ... Defeating the vulnerability was as simple as adding the Java transient keyword to class properties to ensure that they were not serialized.