Octopus Scanner compromises 26 OSS projects on GitHub

By Brian Fox on May 31, 2020 #OSSsecurity

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The Octopus Scanner malware compromised 26 open source projects hosted on GitHub in a new form of software supply chain attack targeting NetBeans projects.
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What Developers Need to Know About WhatsApp's Recent Security Dilemma

By Katie McCaskey on October 08, 2019 AppSec

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Sonatype issues an Advisory Deviation Notice for CVE-2019-11932, a vulnerability that exploits processor memory and recently affected WhatsApp.
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The Dot Zero Conundrum and the New Frontier of Securing Open Source

By Brian Fox on September 24, 2019 code quality

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Sonatype is combining a new type of behavioral analysis with machine learning and proprietary data, creating early warning capabilities to detect malicious.
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Anatomy of the RubyGems ‘rest-client’ Hack, and Getting Creative About Open Source Security

By Brian Fox on August 23, 2019 open source security

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Last month, the RubyGems strong_password component was breached and injected with malicious code.
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Nexus Intelligence Insights: CVE-2019-13354: 'strong_password' embedded malicious code, RubyGems

By Elisa Velarde on July 10, 2019 vulnerabilities

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In this month's Nexus Intelligence Insights, we're covering CVE-2019-13354: strong_password, an embedded malicious code vulnerability in RubyGems.
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