open source software supply chain security
‘Polyfill’ Supply Chain Threat: 4x Worse Than We Thought
Richi Jennings | | App Sec & Supply Chain Security, AppSec & Supply Chain Security, CloudFlare, Funnull, Javascript, Modern Software Supply Chains, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, polyfill, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, Supply-Chain Insecurity
Spackle attack: Chinese company takes over widely used free web service—almost 400,000 websites at risk ...
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‘Perfect 10’ Apple Supply Chain Bug — Millions of Apps at Risk of CocoaPods RCE
Richi Jennings | | App Sec & Supply Chain Security, Apple, Apple iOS, AppSec & Supply Chain Security, CocoaPods, CVE-2024-38366, CVE-2024-38368, dependencies, dependency injection, Dependency Management, macos, macOS Security, Modern Software Supply Chains, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, SB Blogwatch, software dependencies, Supply-Chain Insecurity, third-party dependencies, trust dependencies
Tim looks grim: 10 year old vulnerabilities in widely used dev tool include a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution bug ...
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PyPI Goes Quiet After Huge Malware Attack: 500+ Typosquat Fakes Found
Richi Jennings | | code reuse, open source software supply chain security, PyPI, PyPI malicious packages, pypi vuln, pypi vulnerability, python, Python Malware, Python Packages, Python vulnerability, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain hygiene, Software supply chain management, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks, Software Supply Chain Security Weaknesses, typosquat, Typosquatting, typosquatting attacks
Emergency stop button: The Python Package Index was drowning in malicious code again, so they had to shut down registration for cleanup ...
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GitHub Fights Forks — Millions of Them — Huge Software Supply Chain Security FAIL
Richi Jennings | | Apiiro, App Sec & Supply Chain Security, AppSec & Supply Chain Security, dependency confusion, dependency confusion attacks, GitHub, github application security, github bug, GitHub Exploit, GitHub repositories, GitHub Security Measures, github security scanning, GitHub Security Vulnerabilities, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, repo confusion, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks, software supply chain automation, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Weaknesses, supply chain, supply chain security, Supply-Chain Insecurity
Forking hell: Scrotebots clone thousands of projects, injecting malware millions of times ...
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Patch EVERYTHING: Widely Used ‘WebP’ Code has Critical Bug
Richi Jennings | | Buffer Overflow, buffer overflow attack, Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, Chrome, Chromium, edge, Electron, Exploitable Vulnerabilities, Firefox, google, Heap Overflow, libwebp, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source software supply chain, open source software supply chain security, opera, SB Blogwatch, secure software supply chain, slack, software supply chain, software supply chain hygiene, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks, thunderbird, WebP
WebP FAIL. Critical vuln in libwebp: Go get updates to Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Slack and more ...
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New Cybersecurity Requirements may put Vendors’ Gov’t Contracts at Risk
Donald Fischer | | Compliance, Cybersecurity, government contracts, M-23-16, maintainers, National Cybersecurity Strategy, open source software supply chain security
In the wake of a recent series of cybersecurity events including Log4Shell and SUNBURST, governments around the world have been exploring ways to use their purchasing power to improve software vendors’ security ...
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