The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) today announced that 11 Canadian companies have been selected to receive funding to collaborate on projects with partners in the U.K., following a joint Canada-U.K. call for proposals by the NRC and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The projects, NRC said in a release, “focus on developing real-world […]
At MapleSEC 2023, Rushmi Hasham and Juliana Scharrer, the director and associate director of workforce training at the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, shared their work leading the “cyber talent transformation initiative.” This initiative, supported by the Future Skills Centre, allows the Catalyst to recruit, train and connect diverse Canadian talent to employers across the country. During […]
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has released the second edition of its Top 10 API Security vulnerabilities. It’s the first update since 2019 and aims to be a comprehensive guide to help API developers, designers, architects and managers understand the risks and threats associated with their APIs, and how to secure them. Application […]
Software engineering intelligence (SEI) platforms provide software engineering leaders and teams with insights into what engineering data is really saying about how software products are built and deployed and how software engineering teams are performing. They achieve this by collecting data from numerous engineering systems and employing sophisticated analysis to discover useful trends and patterns. […]
Threat actors continue to poison the NPM repository for open-source JavaScript code with malware aimed at unwary application developers. But the most recent campaigns were so severe, they caused a distributed denial of service attack that periodically blocked access to the site. Researchers at Checkmarx say a hacker — or hackers — recently created a […]
Most businesses are facing a more demanding business environment that includes: Increasing customer expectations for improved quality and faster delivery. Stronger competitors. More complex products and services. One consequence of this business environment is shortening product cycles. In this environment, CIOs can champion enhanced simulations to reduce risk and advance the business plan. “We believe […]
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the Log4j2 vulnerability. Technically, it’s a 2021 cybersecurity event. However IT and infosec leaders spent much of 2022 hunting for and patching applications using the buggy open-source logging library module. If they’re smart, they’ll keep doing it in 2023, says one expert. “Many CISOs may […]
Application developers can reduce the odds of their code including memory vulnerabilities by changing to a modern language, says the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory, the agency urges developers to think about dropping C and C++ and shifting to languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift. In these languages, […]
Gregory Kurtzer, who founded and once led the former open-source project CentOS Linux as well as The cAos Foundation, the organization where early development of it took place, said today a governance structure has been put in place that will keep Rocky Linux in the public domain forever. Development of Rocky Linux began shortly after, […]
A group of scientists at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Gwangju, South Korea say they have developed a “universal method” for improving the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries. A release outlining the breakthrough states that the “advent of electric vehicles has given rise to the demand for lithium-ion batteries with high energy […]
BlackBerry announced on Aug. 2 that its QNX Software Development Platform 7.1 has achieved conformance to the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) General Purpose technical standard for defence vehicles. The FACE technical standard is an open standard that supports the development of portable components for safety and security profiles. It uses industry standards for distributed […]
BlackBerry has announced that QNX OS for Safety 2.2 will be certified to Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 4, the highest level in the EN 50125 safety standard established by the European Electrotechnical Committee for Standardization (CENELEC). QNX OS for Safety is a pre-certified microkernel operating system to support critical digital transportation systems development. Running on […]
Red Hat is hoping that its newly announced integration of Docker virtual container technologies will position containers as an alternative to virtualization for application development and deployment. The company announced a series of initiatives and collaborative efforts Tuesday at its annual Summit conference to integrate with Docker technology. Launched last year, Docker’s virtual containers enable applications to […]
Over the last week there has been no shortage of online articles, blogs and tweets about Prism, the program used by the United States National Security Agency for collection data in real time from companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Public uproar over the until then secret, court approved Internet snooping by U.S. […]
Developers in cities worldwide will gather to build software for disaster risk management and response as part of another “Random Hacks of Kindness” event on December 4-5, Google said. Google, Microsoft, The World Bank, and Yahoo are inviting developers to participate in the event that weekend. Random Hacks of Kindness, or RHoK, unites software engineers […]
Business users of Adobe LiveCycle workspace will now be able to access and act on “task lists” for their projects on mobile devices. Adobe execs say this new capability, announced Monday at Adobe Max 2009, will speed up and simplify office workflows. Traditionally, developers have used Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES) server software to build […]
The co-founder of an Australian software company is fronting a worldwide campaign to “fix” e-mail standards compliance problems with Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook client, but one Canadian e-mail marketer is wondering what the fuss is all about. David Greiner, co-founder of e-mail marketing software company Freshview Pty Ltd. in Sydney, said the fact that Outlook 2007 […]
With more than half of organizations in the Western world now using intranet-based blogs, wikis and discussion forums, according to Prescient Digital Media Ltd. CEO Toby Ward. He says companies that have lagged behind on an Enterprise 2.0 strategy are at risk for outright failure. But according to another industry professional, slow and steady might […]
Tending to its bread-and-butter Flash technology , Adobe Systems will offer on Monday previews of rebranded version of its rich Internet application tools platform as well as a new tool for building user interfaces without coding. Beta releases will be offered for Flash Builder 4, formerly called Flex Builder, and the Flash Catalyst 1.0 UI […]
TORONTO – Web sites incorporating Flash, Web animation technology from Adobe Systems Inc., used to be more of a niche occurrence, but now the desire among users for rich content has “just exploded,” according to a platform evangelist with the San Jose, Calif.-based company. Lee Brimelow said today’s users expect to find Flash-infused Web sites […]
A Waltham, Mass.-based provider of tools for accelerating the use of open source in software development estimates conservatively that 10 per cent of development spending is redundant given the open source code already available. Black Duck Software Inc.’s CEO and president, Timothy Yeaton, said there is an opportunity, especially in tough economic times when IT […]
Microsoft Corp. released the beta version of its Rich-Internet Application (RIA) development tool Silverlight 3.0, and previewed its user interface design tool Expression Blend 3, both equipped with new functionality for developers and designers to create ever-more interactive sites, according to one executive. “Silverlight has been a really important investment for us, and we’re continuing […]
Consolidation has come to the small-but-growing computing niche called CEP (complex event processing), as Aleri and rival Coral8 have merged, the companies announced Monday. Terms were not disclosed. In general, CEP software looks for patterns and correlations in the ocean of electronic transactions or “events” that occur each day in a business, and triggers responsive […]
The ‘version 3’ updates of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, released in the spring of 2007, have breathed new life into ITIL. Certainly, it has sparked renewed interest from CIOs. By applying a common language and best-practice guidelines for managing basic functional processes, ITIL goes beyond a basic focus on infrastructure cost efficiency and personnel […]
