Are Web services developers condemned to re-committing security oversights of the past? Hurwitz says it certainly seems so--if reliance on SSL encryption is any indication.

In its rush to embrace Web services, the computer industry is unknowingly inviting hackers to waltz through gaping structural holes. It's a ticking time bomb that needs to be defused.

More known for political snits than tech leadership, the Web Services Interoperability group, backed by IBM and others, shoots for a turnaround. But the first step's a doozy.

Learn to build a robust, flexible, and secure Web services architecture that leverages the .NET Framework's existing capabilities and handles security as a crosscutting concern.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 , serving as a guide for enabling secure, interoperable Web services.

An example of this dilemma is that 76 percent of companies using Cisco Web Security services are still running Java 6, which has reached its end of life and is unsupported. Because of application ...

The Department of Homeland Security says despite some fixes to Java, it continues to recommend users disable the program in their Web browsers, because it remains vulnerable to attacks that could ...

WS-I seeks feedback The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday announced availability of the WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group Draft, an early version of what is ...

StreamTone CEO Ravi Razdan warns that in its rush to embrace Web services, the computer industry is unknowingly inviting hackers to waltz through gaping structural holes.