The number of security failure discovered and disclosed publicly are increasing at a pace
like never before. Wherein, a small fraction of vulnerabilities encountered in the operational …

Presence of vulnerabilities in any software can pose serious risk to majority of users of that
software, especially in web browsers or operating systems. The assertion that a software is …

Amid globalization and technological innovations, the service market has witnessed a surge
in providers, intensifying competition. Firms introduce new products and services to stay in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a mathematical framework to optimally
allocate resources required for the discovery of vulnerabilities pertaining to different severity …

Abstract Vulnerability Classification Models (VCMs) play a crucial role in software reliability
engineering and hence, have attracted significant studies from researchers and …

With the increase in the discovery of vulnerabilities, the expected exploits occurred in
various software platform has shown an increased growth with respect to time. Only after …

A software system deals with various security implications after its release in the market.
Correspondingly, firm releases security patches to counter those flaws discovered in the …

Vulnerabilities can be discovered by the white/black hat hackers, the firm's own detection
team, reports of users, researchers, government, and so on. The reported vulnerabilities are …

This section is divided into two major parts. In the first section, we talk about the vulnerability
discovery phenomenon and its modeling, and the second part discusses the vulnerability …

Detection and flagging software bugs is in general a difficult problem, especially in
collaboratively developed software managed via large and dynamic software development …