Expert perspectives on application security, compliance, and emerging threats
IncidentWhat Happened On March 27, 2020, Danny Thomas disclosed CVE-2020-7599 , a vulnerability in Gradle s plugin-publish plugin that exposed pre-signed AWS URLs in log output. Every version below 0.11.0 was
GeneralOn April 25, 2020, a single-line change in is-promise version 2.2.0 disrupted build pipelines across 12,000,000 weekly downloads. The maintainer fixed it three hours later, but the incident highlighte
IncidentWhat Happened The Snyk Research Team discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Grunt, a widely-used JavaScript task runner that automates development tasks. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-7
IncidentWhat Happened In 2020, security researcher po6ix discovered a prototype pollution vulnerability in express-fileupload, a Node.js package for handling file uploads. Snyk confirmed the finding and assig
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IncidentWhat happened On March 11th, 2020, Snyk disclosed CVE-2020-7598 , a prototype pollution vulnerability in minimist, an npm package that parses command-line arguments. The package sees roughly 1 million
IncidentA Zip Slip vulnerability in the Golang package go-rpmutils could have allowed attackers to write arbitrary files outside intended directories during archive extraction. The vulnerability, tracked as C
GeneralYou ve probably heard the advice: Write clear code comments. Maybe you ve even enforced it in your team s style guide. But in security reviews, repositories often have helpful inline comments alongsid
IncidentOn June 7, attackers sent 4 million requests through a single unauthenticated REST API endpoint in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin. By that point, the vulnerability had been public for nearly three
IncidentA Major Shift in Security Priorities On September 24, 2021, OWASP released an updated Top 10 list that significantly altered the landscape of security priorities. SQL injection, which had long been a
IncidentWhat Happened In 2020, researcher Yeting Li discovered a Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDoS) vulnerability in UAParser.js, a widely-used JavaScript library for parsing user agent strings. The
GeneralScope This guide addresses the governance of non-human identities (NHIs) — such as service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, machine certificates, and bot credentials — within compliance frameworks. Y
GeneralYour SAST tool probably finds vulnerabilities. The question is whether you can act on them. Checkmarx just released performance metrics for their redesigned static application security testing engine:
IncidentA malicious web page executing arbitrary code on your development machine through your AI agent—that s exactly what Microsoft researchers discovered in AutoGen Studio s pre-release builds. The AutoJac
ResearchYour mobile app just integrated an advertising SDK promising better fill rates and higher eCPMs. Three months later, you discover it s using method swizzling to intercept user data and potentially sip
IncidentWhat Happened CVE-2026-4020 , a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin, allows unauthenticated attackers to extract API keys and SMTP configuration data through a broken access control fla
IncidentOn January 9, 2025, attackers compromised the npm account of a Mastra AI maintainer and published malicious updates to over 140 packages. Microsoft attributes the attack to Sapphire Sleet, a North Kor
