Stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." BASIC is a computer programming language that was developed in the mid-1960s to provide a way for students to write simple computer programs. Since then, the language has evolved into a more robust and powerful language and can be used to create advanced ...

This seems to happen when a user checks out files from a UNIX Server while using an MS Windows/NT client. On Windows and Windows/NT lines are terminated with "\r\n", whereas on UNIX they are terminated with "\n". On check-in, text ...

The basic setup is that you put your source code repository on a central machine and everybody accesses that repository. Within this model, however, there are four variations, driven by two factors. One factor is if the CM tool ...

There are a number of different interpretations. For purposes of this newsgroup, we are talking about tracking and control of software development and its activities. That is, the mangement of software development projects with respect to issues such as multiple developers working ...

Originally, when team sizes were small, the accepted wisdom required CM systems to prevent several users from attempting to change the same component at the same time. Many organizations still attempt to operate with this "safe" development discipline. However, two important developments have combined to allow multiple users to change ...

The use of debuggers to analyse malicious or otherwise unknown binaries has become a requirement for reverse engineering executables to help determine their purpose. While researchers in places such as anti-virus laboratories have always done this, with the availability of free and easy to use debuggers it has also become popular with corporate security ...

After we use a code to transmit our messages, we have to decode the vector which is received at the other end. The most intuitive way is roughly just to see which codeword is closest to the received vector. As long as your channel has more ...

The formal definition of a code is this: a code of length n is a subset of all possible strings, or vectors, of n symbols (chosen from some alphabet, which will often be {0,1}), which has the property that every two members of the subset (i.e., codewords) ...

In a world where the reliance on electronic data transmission and processing is becoming every day more prevalent, it is of critical importance for organizations to guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of mission critical information exchanged over communication networks. Contrary to a false perception, intercepting information transmitted over an optical fibre ...

In the olden days, analysis had to be done with shell commands, built-in system utilities, and a text editor. Of course, back then, the attack surface was small, and there weren’t many places for malware to hide. As malware really began to hit its stride, VMWare’s virtual machine technology started ...

Waterfall Solutions, a developer of advanced information security solutions based on unidirectional data transfer technology preventing data leakage and protecting network infrastructures, is currently completing two strategically important implementations of its security solutions in leading Israeli Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) entities. The implementations in the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) and ...

Application development experts assume that making their software more secure increases the cost of tools and lengthens the time it takes to get an app out the door. That isn't necessarily true, according to studies from Gartner and others, which show that integrating security best practices into the software dev ...