A little heralded document issued by FAA in December 2004 describes how software developers and avionics manufacturers can obtain limited approval of software components that can be reused in many ...

What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well, apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

New research from Lineaje covering “tens of thousands” of open source projects has uncovered just how many vulnerabilities there are in the software many of us use, and how many don’t have a fix. The ...

Automobile safety depends on the correct operation of software systems that are built from many different components. For good design, these components must be isolated, on multiple axes, so they ...

Open source software is the bedrock of modern software development, but it can also be a weak link in the software supply chain. Here are the biggest risks — and tips on how to safely use OSS ...

Software platforms are becoming an increasingly important part of electronics development in the automotive industry. Software-driven functionality such as ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the third edition of Framing Software Component Transparency, a key document aimed at improving the clarity and usage of ...

Software component selection and decision-making are critical processes in modern software engineering, particularly within the framework of Component‐Based Software Engineering (CBSE). The approach ...

Software delivery is a complex process that is fraught with opportunities for security vulnerabilities to be introduced. Events such as the massive breach at Equifax and the more recent breach ...