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Figure 1. OSV Scanner Security is a critical aspect of software development, and staying ahead of vulnerabilities is essential for us application developers. Google’s OSV Scanner is a powerful tool that helps detect vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies. This article will guide us through setting up and using OSV Scanner to secure our projects, scan for invalid licenses, scan OCI images and finally how to fix findings via guided remediation. ...

Sometimes QR codes are a nice way to distribute information like calendar events, contact information, e-mail, geo-locations or internet addresses. In the following article we’re going to encode information to QR code images using the ZXing library and afterwards decode information from a given QR code. Finally we’re taking a look on online QR code generators and how to integrate the ZXing library in a Maven project. The ZXing Library Download the ZXing Libraries from http://code.google.com/p/zxing/downloads/list – the file name is ZXing-<version>.zip Unpack the downloaded archive somewhere Change to the extracted directory and run ant. If you don’t have JavaME installed – and you don’t have to for the samples below – run ant buildwithoutj2me – that will do the job Having compiled the libraries you’re now free to include the core.jar from zxing-<version>/core/ and the javase.jar from zxing-<version>/javase as dependency in your project ...