When Symantec chief executive Greg Clark decided this week to explain his company's 2016 change of policy over allowing governments to review the source code of its software, was he not aware that his ...

Software teams today are pushing updates daily (sometimes hourly), working with bigger contributor pools, and running deployments almost non-stop. In that kind of setup, source code control tools ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-based cyber firm Symantec is no longer allowing governments to review the source code of its software because of fears the agreements would compromise the security of its ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-based cyber firm McAfee said it will no longer permit foreign governments to scrutinize the source code of its products, halting a practice some security experts have ...

Formal code review is beneficial for many reasons -- but it consumes a lot of resources. Agile, iterative and automated development processes make formal code review difficult, if not impossible.

The Centre’s plans for a new mobile phone security framework have unsettled smartphone makers and digital rights groups, opening a fresh debate over how far the state should go in regulating consumer ...