Apple Brings Whole-Program C++ Hardening to Clang
Apple has added a new tool to the upstream LLVM project that could change how teams harden large C++ codebases. The clang-ssaf-driver, merged into LLVM Git this week, analyzes an entire project as it builds and then rewrites source code based on what it finds. The driver is part of Clang’s Scalable Static Analysis Framework […]
GitLab Fixes CVSS 10 Flaw in CI/CD Regex Engine, Plus 23 Other Vulnerabilities
GitLab is telling every self-managed customer to upgrade now. On October 12, the company shipped versions 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8 of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). The releases fix 24 security vulnerabilities. One has a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest rating possible. GitLab.com already runs the patched code. GitLab Dedicated customers […]
GitHub Narrows App Permissions to Pull Teams Off Classic PATs
GitHub is giving DevOps teams more ways to limit an automation job to only the access it needs. A batch of GitHub Apps updates released Oct. 13 adds narrower permissions, relaxes a long-standing install restriction for repository administrators, and makes it easier to move users to expiring tokens. GitHub says the goal is to help […]
npm Puts a 48-Hour Clock on Unused Trusted Publishing Configurations
GitHub has added an expiration date to unused npm trusted publishing configurations. Any configuration that doesn’t complete a successful publish within 48 hours of creation now expires and can no longer authorize a release. It’s a small change. But it closes a gap that matters to anyone who publishes packages from a CI/CD pipeline. How […]
Noma Security Discloses Claude Code Desktop Exploit
Security researchers at Noma Security uncovered SneakPeek, a vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code Desktop that allowed malicious JavaScript embedded in large HTML files to bypass sandbox protections and silently steal sensitive local data. The flaw exposed credentials, API tokens and Kubernetes configurations through the application’s preview pane. Although Anthropic has released a security update addressing the exploit, the discovery highlights growing software supply chain risks as AI coding tools become embedded in developer workflows without sufficient security oversight.
IBM and Red Hat Disclose Discovery of More Than 400 Java Vulnerabilities
IBM and Red Hat this week reported they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Java libraries since launching a Lightwell initiative earlier this year. Additionally, Lightwell Clearinghouse, a program that enables IT organizations to submit specific open source software dependencies for priority review and remediation, is now generally available. Ben […]
GitHub Slams the Brakes on Private Vulnerability Reports
Drowning in AI-generated bug reports? GitHub has a radical answer: Stop accounts from reporting them. GitHub’s new limits on bug reports aren’t a solution to the AI bug-report flood. Anything but! They’re an admission that the traditional security-disclosure workflow, with human maintainers in the loop, simply doesn’t scale. The scarce resource is no longer discovering […]
AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a benchmark that can be used to test whether a model can distinguish real vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is actually safe. The Deception Benchmark was created following an evaluation of the capabilities of 12 models from five different providers. In all, the benchmark includes 14,822 samples […]
TeamPCP Supply Chain Attack Leads to CrowdSec Source Code Being Stolen
CrowdSec says attackers stole source code from about 170 private GitHub repositories after a TanStack npm supply chain attack exposed an OAuth token tied to a former employee.
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers
A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code. As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons largely from open-source code. So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and […]
StackHawk Delivers Wingman to Fix Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
StackHawk this week launched Wingman, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible for application developers to automatically fix vulnerability issues as code is being written. Wingman is designed to install into Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Antigravity. It scans the live application, interprets findings, and fixes vulnerabilities in a way that […]
Why AI Agents Shouldn’t Guess at Vulnerability Exploitability
Vulnerability prioritization is not a language problem. The safest agent architectures use models to interpret and explain, while deterministic systems traverse the evidence. Ask a security team a simple question: Of the vulnerabilities your scanner reported this morning, which ones can actually be exploited in production? The honest answer is often that nobody knows yet, […]
Atlassian Aims to Fill Context and Governance Gap for AI Coding Agents
Atlassian today extended the capabilities of its portfolio to provide teams of artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents with the level of context needed to build and deploy applications in production environments at much higher levels of scale. Code Context, built on Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, makes it possible for AI coding agents to generate more reliable […]
JFrog CEO: No One Cares About Source Code Anymore
JFrog CEO Shlomi Ben Haim told approximately 500 software engineers today that in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) no one will soon care much about source code anymore. Speaking at the company’s swampUP 2026 conference, Ben Haim said AI tools are now creating executable binaries directly without relying on source code that historically existed […]
CrowdStrike Moves to Secure Software Supply Chains at the Endpoint
CrowdStrike today at its Fal.con 2026 conference extended its reach into the realm of software supply chain security with the addition of an offering that blocks malicious open-source packages at the endpoint before their embedded code can run. Bartley Richardson, chief AI and autonomous systems officer for CrowdStrike, said Real-Time Supply Chain Attack Protection is […]
JFrog Moves to Secure Agentic Engineering Workflows
JFrog today at its swampUP 2026 conference added a zero touch remediation capability that ensures the most secure version of a binary is provided even when application developers request a version that has known vulnerabilities. Additionally, JFrog is adding tools and capabilities to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been embedded within a DevOps […]
Cybersecurity Researchers Uncover Flaw in Google AI Coding Tool
Cybersecurity researchers from Pillar Security this week revealed how a prompt injection inserted into a GitHub repository was used to gain Editor-level access to an internal Google Cloud project using a flaw in the command line interface (CLI) of an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that Google provides. Dan Lisichkin, a cybersecurity researcher for Pillar […]
Sonar AI Agent Discovers Vulnerabilities Hidden in Business Logic Workflows
Sonar today made available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to discover vulnerabilities and business logic flaws that pose the greatest risk to an organization should they be exploited. The SonarQube Hunter Agent first analyzes an entire codebase to find three categories of flaws: broken access control, business-logic vulnerabilities, and authentication or session-management issues. Satinder […]
Hackers Target Popular arrayref Rust Crate in Supply-Chain Attack
Security researchers are sorting through a complex, stealthy, and fast-moving supply-chain attack aimed at pushing information-stealing malware by compromising the account of the maintainer of multiple Rust crates and introducing four more attacker-owned crates. In addition, researchers with Wiz wrote that there also appears to be overlap with supply chain campaigns run by nation-state actors […]
npm v12 Shuts Down a Popular Malware Trick — But the Threat Isn’t Going Away
For years, one of the easiest ways to sneak malware onto a developer’s machine has been to hide in plain sight. Install a package from npm, and any lifecycle script bundled with it runs automatically — no review, no approval, no second look. Attackers have known this for a long time, and they’ve used it […]
GitHub Sharpens CodeQL’s Eye on Actions Workflows and Modern JavaScript
GitHub Actions pipelines have become one of the quieter attack surfaces in software development. They pull in third-party actions, cache dependencies, and pass secrets between jobs, often without anyone reviewing the workflow file as closely as they’d review application code. That gap is exactly where cache-poisoning and output-clobbering attacks live, and it’s why GitHub keeps […]
Cloudsmith Extends Policies and Controls to Secure Application Binaries
Cloudsmith this week revealed it has expanded the policy management and continuous risk detection capabilities it makes available within its software artifact management platform to now include policy templates, cooldown policies, and expanded evaluation triggers. Alison Sickelka, vice president of product for Cloudsmith, said these additions to the platform will make it simpler to prevent […]
Microsoft’s GitHub Hit by Major Outage as AI-Driven Demand Strains Infrastructure
GitHub, the Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform serving more than 180 million developers, is still reeling from a widespread outage on Monday that severely disrupted software development pipelines globally. The hours-long incident was the latest in a relentless series of reliability failures for a service struggling to keep pace with an unprecedented surge in artificial […]