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By pairing the system with human security experts, Microsoft said it was able to develop an algorithm that was not only able to correctly identify security bugs with nearly 100% accuracy, but also correctly flag critical, high priority bugs 97% of the time. According to Microsoft, its team of 47,000 developers generate some 30,000 bugs every month across its AzureDevOps and GitHub silos, causing headaches for security teams whose job it is to ensure critical security vulnerabilities don't go missed.

For the first time ever, the findings prove the correlation between developer happiness and application security hygiene, with happy developers 3.6x less likely to neglect security when it comes to code quality. Happy developers are also 2.3x more likely to have automated security tools in place, and 1.3x more likely to follow open source security policies.

Lightstep, the leading provider of observability software for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, announced the release of its best-in-class observability solution to help developers better understand the health of systems and services. New analysis features provide developers with the fastest and most effective way to investigate errors, understand service health issues, and predict the impact of new deployments.

Google today published a blog post recommending mobile app developers to encrypt data that their apps generate on the users' devices, especially when they use unprotected external storage that's prone to hijacking. The open-sourced Jetpack Security library lets Android app developers easily read and write encrypted files by following best security practices, including storing cryptographic keys and protecting files that may contain sensitive data, API keys, OAuth tokens.

Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store. Earlier this month the Chrome Web Store team detected a significant increase in the number of fraudulent transactions involving paid Chrome extensions that aim to exploit users.

Find out how the startup Cyral is helping to improve data security in the cloud. To help improve data security in the cloud, a data security startup called Cyral just raised money to make security work like software development.

Find out how the startup Cyral is helping to improve data security in the cloud. To help improve data security in the cloud, a data security startup called Cyral just raised money to make security work like software development.

While O'Grady identifies a few key selling points for Rust, Cliff Biffle's 2019 post goes one step further in illustrating why a C/C++ developer might fall in love with Rust. He goes on to identify four other areas where Rust trumps C++:. The Rust tools and library ecosystem are fantastic.

At CES 2020, leading global technology solutions provider Avnet is launching a new Partner Program designed to provide developers with a place to build complete IoT solutions, enabling them to scale their business in a quick and cost-effective manner. Using Avnet's IoTConnect platform, powered by Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite, developers can seamlessly connect devices that address both the software and hardware needs of IoT solutions.

CBTS, a leading technology provider that delivers communications, cloud, infrastructure, and ­consulting solutions to clients across North America, is pleased to introduce the Managed Cloud...