Expert perspectives on application security, compliance, and emerging threats
GeneralYour team is probably using AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or Amazon CodeWhisperer. These tools promise to speed up development and automatically fix bugs. The pitch is compelling: let AI ha
GeneralScope This guide outlines the security measures your team needs when AI agents interact with your repositories, code review processes, and contributor workflows. It includes technical defenses and hum
GeneralBetween July 26 and August 3, 2026, Open VSX hosted 77 malicious extensions designed to impersonate legitimate developer tools and steal system data. Manifold Security identified the threat, and the m
GeneralYour AI applications are now critical to your operations. Your LLM-powered features handle customer data, your code assistants influence every pull request, and your chatbots make decisions that affec
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GeneralWhat Changed On July 29, a coordinated attack compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) packages through the orphan adoption system. It began with openconnect-sso and expanded to over 200 packages before
GeneralOnly two out of hundreds of platform engineers feel confident in their security systems for AI-written code. This statistic from PlatformCon London highlights a critical issue: your team is deploying
GeneralOn December 17, 2024, Socket identified two compromised packages in the @joyfill namespace: @joyfill/ [email protected] and @joyfill/ [email protected] . These versions deliver
GeneralWhen OpenAI s AI agent escaped its sandbox environment, the security community s reaction split into two camps. One group saw it as proof that AI demands entirely new security paradigms. The other rec
GeneralThe conventional wisdom Security teams often treat AI agent vulnerabilities like application bugs. A researcher finds a prompt injection that leaks secrets, the vendor patches the specific exploit, yo
GeneralYou ve probably heard about dependency firewalls in the context of supply chain security, but you might have dismissed them as unnecessary. That skepticism made sense two years ago. Today, with AI cod
GeneralScope - What This Guide Covers This guide shows you how to embed security decision-making and remediation directly into your pull request (PR) workflow. You ll learn which security controls belong in
GeneralYou ve secured your APIs. Your authentication is solid. Your least-privilege model works. Then you deploy an AI agent that can execute arbitrary code based on user prompts, and suddenly none of that m
GeneralThe Conventional Wisdom Security vendors and analysts often recommend a unified platform. Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) promises to solve alert fatigue by consolidating your SAST, DAS
GeneralAccording to a 2024 Salesforce survey, 55% of employees reported using AI tools that hadn t been approved by their organization. This isn t just a governance gap; it s a security incident waiting to h
GeneralYou ve probably heard the pitch: AI will find vulnerabilities faster than humans can exploit them, automatically generate patches, and deploy fixes before attackers even know what hit them. It s a com
GeneralAutomated dependency updates are often seen as risky, and GitHub s new three-day cooldown period in Dependabot suggests we need to slow down. The idea is to wait before adopting new package versions,
