Open-source software (OSS) fuels innovation. Over 96% of commercial applications rely on at least one OSS component (Synopsys, 2023). At Cloudsmith, we champion OSS and understand its indispensable role in today's software landscape. However, the escalating threat of supply chain attacks targeting...
It could be a bunch of open-source software, some unknown number of third-party libraries, and maybe one or more vulnerable components. Discover the risks and threats organizations may face relying on software with known vulnerabilities in a world where81% of codebasecontains at least one flaw ...
Automatic Launch of Malicious Code. Bad actors can embed malware in the autorun.inf files on external storage. Once connected to a computer, the code can run without the user's knowledge. Bypassing Approval. Autoplay avoids measures that often involve user consent before running software. This by...
Every software developers has the goal of component re-use, but there are implicit dangers in the practice that all developers must be aware of.By Randall Nagy Published: 07 Jun 2013 Experienced software engineers know that re-use is about far, far more than software development, but it is ...
Peter Wayner is the author of more than 16 books on diverse topics, including open source software ("Free for All"), autonomous cars ("Future Ride"), privacy-enhanced computation ("Translucent Databases"), digital transactions ("Digital Cash"), and steganography ("Disappearing Cryptography"). ...
Software behaves badly: autonomous AI actions cause harm There are also two types of solutions we talk about: technological and regulatory. So, for instance, here are the problems we see from AI. And here are the possible ways we can think about trying to solve them. ...
Considering the nested nature of software development, where libraries use other third-party components, developers often don’t even realize that they are relying on older and vulnerable code within their applications. Open source security company SourceClear has a tool to help developers identify ...
All modern software development languages are modular, which means developers can break larger sections of code into smaller more manageable pieces. This lets them reuse units of code, typically grouped into libraries. These libraries are often not written in-house, but are open source collections ...
The recently discoveredOSX.Bellamalware, which gets much of its payload from an Open Source Software (OSS) post-exploitation toolkit by the same name, reminds us again how easy it is for an attacker to create legitimate-looking phishing dialogs using built-in macOS scripting functionality. ...
It's no secret thatpirating any kind of software is dangerous. When you download from a reputable source, you can reasonably trust that the file you're downloading is what the distributor claims it is. Legitimate game stores would get in a lot of trouble for handing out malware. ...