Tag Archives: Java

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes

Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS’s Austin, Texas, offices in 2022. Washington Post / Getty Images reader comments 79 with There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That’s not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are… Read More »

Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries

Getty Images reader comments 37 with 32 posters participating Share this story Organizations using newer versions of Oracle’s Java framework woke up on Wednesday to a disquieting advisory: A critical vulnerability can make it easy for adversaries to forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and authorization credentials generated by a range of widely… Read More »