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Authentication Looks Easy - Until You Build It for Real Users
41+ min ago (720+ words) Every developer thinks authentication is easy. Until they build it for real users. The tutorials make it feel simple: But production authentication is not just about making login functional. That's the part most tutorials never teach. And that's where most…...
Designing Secure Smart Contracts: Top De Fi Fixes
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (1047+ words) Defenses are also converging. Academic approaches like invariant-based reasoning are increasingly being operationalized in CI pipelines using a combination of static analysis tools (Slither, Mythril), fuzzing frameworks (Echidna, Foundry), and property or invariant testing. Research published via the ACM Digital…...
"Morally repugnant shortsightedness": Why open source security leaders say companies must stop freeloading on maintainers
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (876+ words) The Open Source Security Foundation (Open SSF), a cross-industry initiative of the Linux Foundation focused on sustainably securing open source software, on Thursday announced five new members have joined the foundation." New Open SSF members include Active State, Aikido, Minimus,…...
CI/CD Supply Chain Security: Hardening Artifacts, Dependencies, and Delivery Pipelines
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (413+ words) By treating delivery pipelines as explicit trust boundaries, practitioners can harden CI/CD systems without sacrificing speed....
Git Hub links the breach of 3, 800 internal repositories to the Tan Stack npm supply-chain attack, saying hackers used a malicious Nx Console VS Code extension
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (69+ words) Sergiu Gatlan / Bleeping Computer: Git Hub links the breach of 3, 800 internal repositories to the Tan Stack npm supply-chain attack, saying hackers used a malicious Nx Console VS Code extension This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site…...
" A Beginner's First Look at Project IDX: Secure Coding from Day One
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (503+ words) Google I/O Writing Challenge Submission This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Hey everyone! " Hima Kartikeya here! I just finished my Class 10 ICSE board exams and I am getting ready to start my polytechnic diploma…...
Git Hub Suffers Breach Due to Compromised VS Code Extension
18+ hour, 55+ min ago (241+ words) As organizations navigate the complexities of modern software development, this incident emphasizes the need for robust security practices. The breach at Git Hub illustrates that even established tech companies are not immune to cyber threats, signaling to all sectors the…...
Open source security gap drives Socket's $60m raise
6+ hour, 5+ min ago (287+ words) Socket, a software supply chain security platform founded in 2020, has closed a $60m Series C funding round at a $1bn valuation, as enterprises race to secure the surge of open source code now entering production through AI-accelerated development. The round was led…...
VS Code Extension Breach Exposes 3, 800 Git Hub Repositories
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (798+ words) Security Week reports Git Hub confirmed that approximately **3, 800** internal repositories were accessed after a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension was installed on a developer device, according to Security Week and Bleeping Computer. Notebookcheck and Bleeping Computer report the malicious build…...
VS Code supply chain attack hits Git Hub, Open AI, and Mistral AI
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (469+ words) Notebookcheck Git Hub confirmed today that the breach of roughly 3, 800 internal repositories traces back to a poisoned version of the Nx Console VS Code extension, itself a casualty of the Tan Stack npm supply chain attack. The campaign, attributed to…...