Here's how flow data can be used to help prevent ransomware: • Reconnaissance: Flow data can alert you to network scanning that shouldn’t occur as ransomware looks for new hosts to infect.

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Apache Avro Java Software Development Kit (SDK) that, if successfully exploited, could allow the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible instances ...

Understanding and reasoning about program execution is a critical skill for developers, often applied during tasks like debugging and code repair. Traditionally, developers simulate code execution ...

For the sake of better performance, platform-specific facilities support, or the use of legacy code, Java applications may use JNI (Java Native Interface) to call native functions. We present an ...

If the constructor had any validation checks, those don't get run. Thus it's possible for deserialization to create objects that are invalid or have altered data. Java deserialization bugs can be ...

Early reports about the existence of a remote code execution vulnerability led to some people confusing it with CVE-2022-22963, a flaw in Spring Cloud Function that was patched Tuesday and whose ...

A new zero-day vulnerability in the Spring Core Java framework called 'Spring4Shell' has been publicly disclosed, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on applications.

To help programmers both anticipate and recover from runtime errors, the Java programming language defines a special class named the RuntimeException. Given their potential to stop an otherwise ...