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As with other aspects of cybersecurity, the level of programming language security depends on what we mean by “secure.” It’s true that Java has fewer identified vulnerabilities than some other ...

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 important ...

Common Weakness Enumeration CWE-22, commonly referred to as "path traversal", is a vulnerability in which an application does not appropriately restrict the paths that users can access via ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...

Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...