DevSecOps
Hackers Target Popular arrayref Rust Crate in Supply-Chain Attack
Jeff Burt | | arrayref, information stealing, North Korea, Rust programming language, software supply chain attacks, StepSecurity, typosquatting, Wiz ResearchSecurity 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Microsoft’s GitHub Hit by Major Outage as AI-Driven Demand Strains Infrastructure
Jon Swartz | | AI infrastructure, AI workflows, API, copilot, Downdetector, github, GitHub Actions, GitHub outages, GitHub Pages, Government, microsoft, Microsoft Teams, Rubrik, zero-trustGitHub, 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 ...
Is Your New DevSecOps Tooling Reducing Work Or Just Adding to It?
Yogesh Tatwal | | CI/CD, devsecops, SAST, Security scanning, software delivery, Software Supply ChainSecurity belongs in the software delivery pipeline. The harder question is where, how often and at what cost. Many pipeline teams eventually add security scanning to CI/CD, and relatively few go back ...
ProjectDiscovery Brings Open Source AI Testing to Vulnerability Discovery
ProjectDiscovery has made available an autonomous security testing platform that leverages an open source artificial intelligence (AI) testing framework to detect and validate vulnerabilities at a lower total cost. Company CEO Rishi ...
Why CI/CD Security Testing Is Going Autonomous (and Why It Should Stay Local)
mehdi boutayeb | | application security, autonomous security testing, CI/CD, devsecops, penetration testing, Software Supply ChainContinuous integration and delivery changed the tempo of software. Teams merge dozens of times a day, infrastructure is redefined on every commit, and a new build can reach production in minutes. Security ...
HackerOne Extends Platform Reach to Remediate Source Code Vulnerabilities
HackerOne has added a remediation capability to its H1 Platform that reduces the amount of time required to remediate validated vulnerabilities and other weaknesses affecting specific lines of source code. Nidhi Aggarwal, ...
AWS Extends DevSecOps Reach to AI Coding Tools from Anthropic and OpenAI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at the Black Hat USA conference revealed it is working with both Anthropic and OpenAI to integrate their respective coding tools with a service it has ...
From API Integration to Agent Governance: What Backend Teams Need to Know About MCP
Many MCP projects begin with an existing API and a simple request: expose one backend capability to an LLM client. The quickest route is to wrap an endpoint as a tool and ...
N. Korea Group Behind Multiple Open Source Supply-Chain Attacks: Amazon
Jeff Burt | | Amazon, Axios, chalk package, Contagious Interview, generative AI, google, malicious npm packages, microsoft, North Korea, open source libraries, software supply chain attacks, typo-crypto, WizAmazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks increasingly facing developers, from the growing ...
