Security expert Ross Anderson has called for empirical research to be conducted into whether open source or closed source software is more secure, and into the impact that development practices such ...

A series of flaws in Google's internal bug tracker let a security researcher gain access to some of the company's most critical and dangerous vulnerabilities. The company's internal bug reporting ...

Microsoft has announced the launch of a new site dedicated to public feedback for Internet Explorer 7 and future versions. The Internet Explorer Feedback site is open to anybody who wishes to report ...

There's a new vulnerability database in town, and experts differ on how much its presence is going to affect the bug-tracking landscape. The European Union's cyber agency, ENISA, on May 13 launched ...

"By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexible Server authentication process for a replication user, a malicious user could leverage an improperly anchored regular expression to bypass ...

Bug reports are the currency of quality assurance. They're the product of our labour and, it could be argued, the validation of our existence. Typically, they're the sole conduit of information ...

Hackers broke into Microsoft’s secret, internal bug-tracking database and stole information related to vulnerabilities that were exploited in later attacks. But the software developer never disclosed ...