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Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity…

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Many tools and libraries are readily available to build and operate distributed Web applications. While the setup of operational environments is comparatively easy, practice shows that their continuous secure operation is more difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Matteo Maria Casalino , Michele Mangili , Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta

Increasing numbers of software vulnerabilities are discovered every year whether they are reported publicly or discovered internally in proprietary code. These vulnerabilities can pose serious risk of exploit and result in system…

Software security mainly studies vulnerability detection: is my code vulnerable today? This hinders risk estimation, so new approaches are emerging to forecast the occurrence of future vulnerabilities. While useful, these approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos E. Budde , Ranindya Paramitha , Fabio Massacci

Security holds an important role in a software. Most people are not aware of the significance of security in software system and tend to assume that they will be fine without security in their software systems. However, the lack of security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ariessa Davaindran Lingham , Nelson Tang Kwong Kin , Chen Wan Jing , Chong Heng Loong , Fatima-tuz-Zahra

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false negatives. Recent progress in Deep Learning (DL) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Saikat Chakraborty , Rahul Krishna , Yangruibo Ding , Baishakhi Ray

The increasing reliance on software in various applications has made the problem of software vulnerability detection more critical. Software vulnerabilities can lead to security breaches, data theft, and other negative outcomes. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saadh Jawwadh , Guhanathan Poravi

Open source projects play a significant role in software production. Most of the software projects reuse and build upon the existing open source projects and libraries. While reusing is a time and cost-saving strategy, some of the key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Javad Ghofrani , Paria Heravi , Kambiz A. Babaei , Mohammad Soorati

The significant increase in software production driven by automation and faster development lifecycles has resulted in a corresponding surge in software vulnerabilities. In parallel, the evolving landscape of software vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yuejun Guo , Constantinos Patsakis , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Fran Casino

Automated vulnerability detection tools are widely used to identify security vulnerabilities in software dependencies. However, the evaluation of such tools remains challenging due to the heterogeneous structure of vulnerability data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Peter Mandl , Paul Mandl , Martin Häusl , Maximilian Auch

Application security is an essential part of developing modern software, as lots of attacks depend on vulnerabilities in software. The number of attacks is increasing globally due to technological advancements. Companies must include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mohamed Mjd Alhafi , Mohammad Hammade , Khloud Al Jallad

Open Source Software (OSS) security and resilience are worldwide phenomena hampering economic and technological innovation. OSS vulnerabilities can cause unauthorized access, data breaches, network disruptions, and privacy violations,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manual , Murtuza Jadliwala , Peyman Najafirad

Open source software (OSS) vulnerabilities threaten the security of software systems that use OSS. Vulnerability databases provide valuable information (e.g., vulnerable version and patch) to mitigate OSS vulnerabilities. There arises a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Congying Xu , Bihuan Chen , Chenhao Lu , Kaifeng Huang , Xin Peng , Yang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as transformative tools for software vulnerability detection, addressing critical challenges in the security domain. Traditional methods, such as static and dynamic analysis, often falter due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Shuning Gu , Heqing Huang , Guofei Gu , Jeff Huang

Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

Critical software systems face stringent requirements in safety, security, and reliability due to the circumstances surrounding their operation. Safety and security have progressively gained importance over the years due to the integration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Julio Escribano-Barreno , Marisol García-Valls

In recent years, the number of cyber attacks has grown rapidly. An effective way to reduce the attack surface and protect software is adoption of methodologies that apply security at each step of the software development lifecycle. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Arina Kudriavtseva , Olga Gadyatskaya

In today's digital landscape, the importance of timely and accurate vulnerability detection has significantly increased. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages transformer-based models and machine learning techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Daniele Cipollone , Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Simone Ferlin , Maliheh Izadi , Dejan Kostic , Marco Chiesa

The identification of vulnerabilities is an important element in the software development life cycle to ensure the security of software. While vulnerability identification based on the source code is a well studied field, the identification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Andreas Schaad , Dominik Binder

Software security has been an important research topic over the years. The community has proposed processes and tools for secure software development and security analysis. However, a significant number of vulnerabilities remains in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Steven Arzt , Linda Schreiber , Dominik Appelt